Why does my Ipod sound like garbage on my brand new Eclipse HU?

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

well test the wires on the amplifier input if they can be turned to RCA stereo... PLEASE turn off the hu before messing with RCA cables on the amplifier and put the ipod volume to 0 and slowly increase it see if it still distorts... if yes then i bet its the cable lol

My HU doesn't have an RCA input, its a Mini Jack Input. And like I said before the only possible things that could be wrong by logic are the HU or the mini jack wire.

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Only a minijack... that's odd.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Only a minijack... that's odd.

yes it is. It has a CD changer port, and then it has a Mini Jack Input.

 

[Slaugh 10+ year member]

yes it is. It has a CD changer port, and then it has a Mini Jack Input.

this sucks, could have been a a pair of female RCA inputs... well whatever

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

there may be an adapter availabe to convert the cd changer into an aux input as alpine head units are?

and by mini jack are you talking about the standard headphone jack or the really small one (like for cellphone headsets)?

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

there may be an adapter availabe to convert the cd changer into an aux input as alpine head units are?
and by mini jack are you talking about the standard headphone jack or the really small one (like for cellphone headsets)?

Standard Headphone Jack. I still have my Alpine CD port to RCA adapter, would that work on the Eclipse?

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

And one more thing, how do i even remove the headunit? Its locked in pretty good, and i don't have any key or anything that came with the box, with my Alpine where pins i would just move out, but i can't find anything on this.

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

Standard Headphone Jack. I still have my Alpine CD port to RCA adapter, would that work on the Eclipse?

Probably not, but you can try it.

Go to RadioShack and get a male to male standard stereo headphone wire. This means both sides will have a stereo plug - one goes onto the head unit, the other to your ipod.

 

[JLCivic 10+ year member]

My HU doesn't have an RCA input, its a Mini Jack Input. And like I said before the only possible things that could be wrong by logic are the HU or the mini jack wire.

If those are the only 2 things it could be, by logic, why did you post here asking why your ipod sounds bad? You seemed to have known the answer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

If those are the only 2 things it could be, by logic, why did you post here asking why your ipod sounds bad? You seemed to have known the answer //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

Becuase at first i wasn't sure if it was the ipod, but like 2 posts later i stated that i tried a discman and had the same results, so that hereby rules out the ipod.

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I got a new 5 dollar wire from radioshack, and it works fine now, guess it was the wire. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

Sweet.

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[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

Sweet.
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Upon further inspection, i noticed that regardless of wire, the ipod will distort if you turn the volume up too high on the ipod itself, so there was actually nothing at all wrong wtih the original wire. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crazy.gif.c13912c32de98515d3142759a824dae7.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

 

[ls1pimp 10+ year member]

I am having trouble getting the stupid frame peice to snap on though, i got in on, but it keeps popping off.

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

pix?