Got my nice little MP3 player mounted, kind a sorta...

But now I've got a problem... When listening to the MP3 player, sound is a whole lot quieter than it is with CD's... Even with the volume on the mp3 player cranked to the max...

Is there anything I can do to bring back the volume, without adjusting the gains on the amps? or am I totally hooped on that one? lol

 

how do you have it connected??? just an aux jack on fron of unit??? if so, look into getting a wired fm modulator. it will plug into your mp3 player and give you great sound!

 

It's wired in to the RCA input cables I have for my Alpine...

I didn't go the FM modulator route, because all the ones I've heard don't seem to have quite as good SQ as a direct connection does...

Maybe I can find a 1 watt amplifier somewhere, lol

 

Well, I found what can probably help me... Only they don't have a way for me to register as a member because I can't choose my province... So if anyone can find something like this for me, that's availiable to Canada...

It'd help me a lot, especially since I don't use CD's anymore...

I'll let y'all know if I find one before anyone else does, lol

 

I just have RCA jacks that I have pluged into a adapter in the back of my deck. Then I plug into the headphone jack on my Ipod. It sounds fine in my Blazer.

What deck do you have?

 

Alpine CDA-9831

My friends ipod was a lot quieter than CD as well... The only thing that's come anywhere near the volume is a friends DVD player...

The headphone power output isn't high enough for the RCA's I think...

It's not so much a problem... but a major annoyance, It's about 75 - 80% of CD volume...

 

I had an iPod interface installed, it took the place of my stock 5 disc changerbefore I upgraded my system.

Prior to that I used the awful cassette adapter, the sound quality wasn't too bad much louder than a CD, but an interface is the way to go, no wires no fuss.

 

That's work great... If I had an iPod... lol, best I can hope for is to find a line driver, or maybe Alpine will come out with a iPod style control device for my Gigabeat...

 

Does your radio have any settings for IPOD? I had the same problem with my mp3 player and it turned out that on my pioneer radio there was a setting to make the music play louder. I forget the name of the setting.

 

I don't think so... I'll do some digging, but I doubt it...