[W126 Coupe] trunk mounted CD

[Shayegan, Richard]

Oh, and I forgot to add, your thing about the best of buddy holly reminded me, anybody know if Sony has licensed ATRAC3 to anybody? I've been using a portable sony CD player with one of those tape adapters for now. I don't even have enough music to fill up one cd formatted in ATRAC3 (1 ATRAC3 formatted CD holds 25 hours of music). I'm just getting tired of having a portable CD player in the passenger footwell.
Richard

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com] On Behalf Of Ken.England at ipaustralia.gov.au
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] trunk mounted CD


If you are not fussy about sound quality or massive amounts of volume you can use a CD player with an FM modulator which puts out a signal at around 88Mhz.  Tune the Becker to this on one of the buttons.  These systems have connection boxes of sorts that feed the CD player signal into the radio antenna cables.  Of course the radio antenna then broadcasts the CD signal on the FM band and you can hear it on a portable set nearby.  This will work with any radio of course. 

You can place the control for the CD player in the coin tray.  Cut out a suitable slot in the fibreglass or whatever the material is.  (If the control is too big, select another CD player.)  Get at least two magazines for your player.  You will go through six, even 10 CDs pretty quickly on a long trip and hearing 'The Best of Buddy Holly/Brahms/Miles Davis/Nirvana' three times in two days is about enough even for me. 

One hint. If you mount the CD player on the metal below the rear (hat) shelf, don't put it in the middle.  Get the thing as far over to one side as you can, maybe even mount it vertically somewhere if the machine can take it.  It's a damn nuisance in the middle since it gets in the way of luggage   

I agree.  Most of the stereo units now sold are massively gaudy (ultra-bad taste) and are so ugly they actually frighten children.  (That goes especially for the domestic ones)  The automotive systems have far too many little knobs and buttons and are too distracting when you are driving.   I've got better things to think about  than the second function of the fourth button from the right on the third row. like what's that silly old b- wearing the hat going to do next.   
  
Ken England

380SEC with original Becker radio which has a working cassette player.