[Blumustangdude21]

Hey guys so here is my deal I have an Aux in and trying to hook up my ipod.... I am very teck savy but heres the deal i think i have a bad ground? My Ipod I use the car charger by belkin and on the charger its self it has a head phone jack 3.5mm and I have a stereo 3.5mm mini to mini i am getting sound but when i pause the Ipod I hear noise like Hissing? and chrackling, this is only when I use the belking adapeter? my last car i had no propblem could it be the cig lighter???? in the arm rest???

any thoughts

Issom

 

[EPSILON7617]

i only get the hissing when the car power adapter is in it too. if i just have the audio cord in then its all good yo!

 

[alas]

Maybe your dubbing cable has a bad connection, go buy another one or try someone elses. I have a "gold played connector" yeah I was like whats the point? but I guess it enhances performance and there is less signal less and interference. So yeah..

 

[Blumustangdude21]

so do you get hissing with the gold connector?

 

[N8t_888]

Hey I had this problem when I hooked up my Sirius Radio. It drove me crazy! So I did some research on the internet and found out that it is caused fom a "ground loop". You need to buy a device wich is called a ground loop isolator. Radio shack has it on their website but it is out of stock. I found one at wal mart ($14). It is a small little box with rca hookups on it. You will have to get some adapters from maybe radio shack to change to a mini stereo plug. Radio Shack swore up and down that if I bought the gold connectors that it will stop. It did not. Here are a few links of what I got. Oh and It worked very well. Took care of the problem.

Ground Loop Isolators

Wal-Mart

Crutchfield w/RCA Jacks

Crutchfield (Has stereo 3.5mm plugs)

The Last one was not available when I was looking. It is good cause you wont have to convert the rca plugs to 3.5mm plugs. Might actually save you some money.
I hope this helps.

 

[alas]

Originally posted by Blumustangdude21@Dec 14 2005, 06:39 PM
so do you get hissing with the gold connector?

no. Perfect quality..sounds like a CD

 

[Blumustangdude21]

OK I think i found out the problem, well i was using a mini to mini stereo cable and got alot of feed back in the speakers causing the hissing and they were gold

but thanks to N8t_888 I remember because i had the same problem with my xm radio in my other car you need to used a mini to rcas input and have a mini to rca output and its all good now

but is there any adaper to make my head unit show the names???

Issom

 

[alas]

Ipod stereo by pioneer that they offer at Scion?

 

[josurr]

Originally posted by ALaS@Dec 15 2005, 06:06 PM
Ipod stereo by pioneer that they offer at Scion?

+1

or just go with some aftermarket add-on that sounds like a$$...