still in the planning stages, but this is what I'm gonna try to do with my MP3 player


here is my Rio Karma as it sits in the dock


I want to use the line outs in the back of the dock, as well as the power supply from it


There is more than enough space to fit the dock under the ashtray


I took the steel ashtray dish out.
when the ashtray lid is open, it hits the bottom of the dock, so it wont sit high enough


it can sit a little higher than in this pic, but still not enough to see the full screen

So i'll try to get a new shifter plate at the wreckers, and just take the ashtray lid off that one, i dont want to hack up my stock peice, hopefully it will have enough room then to sit higher then.



this deck will replace the sony unit


the blue plug goes into the back of the head unit, giving me auxilary inputs for the mp3 player

should be cool when its finsihed!

 

I did the same thing with my Nomad Zen x player and I must be honest......It did not have the push on sound like I thought it would. Those things are great with headphones, but just did not sound good (loud enough) for me.

I did however like the fact that I did not have to carry my CD case (about 200 cds) in my car at all times.

Later

 

the karma is one of the best sounding players out there, i've hooked it up to many stereos and it sounds great, so i'm not worried about that

 

I posted this on the other forum that 85_ZED28 posted on. Here is what I plan on doing with my Karma.

 

i did something similar with my labtop. I bought one of those wires that converts RCA to the normal headphone jack plugs. My deck has an input for an auxilary input already so i just wired it through the console and all i have to do is just plug it into the labtop whenever i get into the car. I know its a little more bulgy but with teh labtop i can also plug it into the ecm with my winaldl cable to get realtime data, figured i might as well kill two birds with one stone. either way its so much better than carrying around cd's

 

I used to have that head unit!!!!! I must :hail: the ESP unit from Sony.......That damn thing NEVER skipped!!!!!! I gave it to my brother and he is still jamming with it.

Later

 

haha i did this with my IPOD. it was badayess. the only thing is, it got really cold one night and it stayed in my car. cracked the display. 2nd ipod i've been through

 

ahh, back in the day when sony was still good at car audio......
i miss those days (had one of their ES amps. great amp)