Ipod

[Kent Canary]

Fraz, you dont have to have an iPod ready head unit as such, only if you want the display track and playlist access though the head unti. My Sony head unit used the CD changer port so the track forward and back, skip FF and RW work, I just have to use the pod itself to select individual tracks or playlists, whch is no hassle.

Most of the time its on shuffle! What bracket are you using for your iPod?

[fraz13]

Yeah your right but a wanted to access all features with my headunit but av always used Alpine anyway and my screen is usefull with all the on screen details

The bracket it an old Nokia phone cradle bracket with in/out and up/down movements, a got a piece of stainless sheet polished up, cut to size and mounted on the bracket

[david7]

The Alpine CDA-7939 was , and I believe still is, the best sounding head unit ever made! It was the firstto have dual Burr Brown 20 Bit DAC's and sounded so smooth.

The 7949 and 7959 never quite matched up to it. The only thing I have ever found close is the Beckers they put in the mid eighties Mercs, Porcshes and BMW 635's.

I used to run a car aduio shop back in NZ many years ago.

[Kent Canary]

Cool, in into my NZ music (Finn Bros, The Mutton Birds, Marshmallow, that sort of thing). Ive yet to hear a proper Alpine system. I used to work somewhere where they used Nakamichi's in the cars..!

[fraz13]

Pics of the iPod holder a made.....

[Kent Canary]

Fraz,

Cheers for the pics, thats very smart. I like the way you can slip the existing belt clip over the bracket, I take it theres no slipping left to right?

I think this is one of the drawbacks of the Dension system in that the supplied bracket is for flat mount only (at least it was when I bought it) but I too got hold of a right angled piece of metal thanks to a friend and it was installed over the holes used for a previous Nokia phone install.

Good work there Fraz!

[fraz13]

When a first sat the iPod on the bit of metal before it was on the bracket it did slip about and a thought it was going to be a problem, After a mounted the metal on the bracket and fitted it in the car there was no slippage because the car never gets into those sorts of angles and the cable kinda pulls down on it holding it in place...

It was a quick fix thats worked very well

[Kent Canary]

Excellent, sometimes simple is best!