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Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: pedroMV6 on 13 July 2010, 19:58:47
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Having a slight problem with it - it skips a millisecond now and then when playing CD's.
Doesn't matter if the CD is new or copied, but it's starting to irritate me now.
Probably a nightmare to fix (if it is at all possible), so with that in mind, I managed to find a fascia adaptor for a single DIN head unit at Billing for a mere fiver (rude not to, really!).
Bearing in mind the steering wheel controls, the MFD and the fact I'd like a head unit with a 3.5 mm jack input, what would you guys recommend?
Not JVC cos I think JVC car stuff is bloody terrible! :-/
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I've got a single din Alpine 9854R, very impressed. Looks ok not too chav-me, 3.5mm input with tray handy for iPod/iPhone.
It also makes the standard speakers sound much, much better!
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/803897/Omega/Radio/DSC00756.JPG)
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oh the display has a black background with white text, unlike most which are white backlit making it too bright at night. Buttons light up orange too
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I've got a single din Alpine 9854R, very impressed. Looks ok not too chav-me, 3.5mm input with tray handy for iPod/iPhone.
It also makes the standard speakers sound much, much better!
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/803897/Omega/Radio/DSC00756.JPG)
I must be getting old..... ;)
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I've got a single din Alpine 9854R, very impressed. Looks ok not too chav-me, 3.5mm input with tray handy for iPod/iPhone.
It also makes the standard speakers sound much, much better!
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/803897/Omega/Radio/DSC00756.JPG)
I must be getting old..... ;)
You are, but it does. ;D
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Something like this maybe?
http://www.dndservices.co.uk/cz100er.html
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Something like this maybe?
http://www.dndservices.co.uk/cz100er.html
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Very reasonable.
Just plug 'n' play - the MFD and steering wheel buttons will work with it?
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Steering interface is available as an extra, patch lead shown on the link, and if you look at teh lead, you can then select the appropriate vehicle interface.
No, Clarion do not support the MFD, and the few models that do from Sony, Kenwood and Alpine use prohibitively expensive interfaces
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Steering interface is available as an extra, patch lead shown on the link, and if you look at teh lead, you can then select the appropriate vehicle interface.
No, Clarion do not support the MFD, and the few models that do from Sony, Kenwood and Alpine use prohibitively expensive interfaces
OK, thanks Dave - I shall think about it further.
Have to say the unit's been fine today! ::)
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Pete, mine does the very same thing.. you turn the volume up high and the music seems like it goes off and comes back on very quickly >:(
I thought it was the head unit but tried another and that is exactly the same.It even skips when the radio is on so can't be the cd player.....
I turned the volume up then faded and balanced so one speaker was playing it turned out to be just the drivers door speaker. So I have swapped it and still it does it.... next I am going to check the wiring I think :(
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I don't really listen to the radio - it's all commercial, housewife sleep-inducing "Radio Valium" round here, and national radio stations aren't much better.
Actually, they're no better.
I only ever listen to the local station in a morning to find out what the weather's gonna be like. Once heard, back to my proper music!
:D :D :D
Can't say I've noticed a little "skip" when radio is on to be honest.
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I've got a single din Alpine 9854R, very impressed. Looks ok not too chav-me, 3.5mm input with tray handy for iPod/iPhone.
It also makes the standard speakers sound much, much better!
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/803897/Omega/Radio/DSC00756.JPG)
I was considering doing similar but understand with Bose.. I can't. (you don't have Bose I take it.. )
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Pete, mine does the very same thing.. you turn the volume up high and the music seems like it goes off and comes back on very quickly >:(
I thought it was the head unit but tried another and that is exactly the same.It even skips when the radio is on so can't be the cd player.....
I turned the volume up then faded and balanced so one speaker was playing it turned out to be just the drivers door speaker. So I have swapped it and still it does it.... next I am going to check the wiring I think :(
I remember you saying. Interesting that it's not the head unit, then. I don't suppose it's possible that your car has one or more Bose speakers? It does sound like the audio amps shutting down due to overcurrent / overheat top me.
Kevin
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Pete, mine does the very same thing.. you turn the volume up high and the music seems like it goes off and comes back on very quickly >:(
I thought it was the head unit but tried another and that is exactly the same.It even skips when the radio is on so can't be the cd player.....
I turned the volume up then faded and balanced so one speaker was playing it turned out to be just the drivers door speaker. So I have swapped it and still it does it.... next I am going to check the wiring I think :(
I'd change all the speakers to be honest...
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It won't the wiring to that one speaker though would it??
I keep thinking about fitting a good head unit like Tunnie's and Dundee's then amp etc to get a good sound system :y
Come on the Rick Cd ;D :y
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Could be speaker wiring shorting out, I suppose. :-/
Worth getting to the bottom of it before fitting a new head unit, I'd say.
Kevin
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iirc tech2 can do quite a comprehensive speaker test, have you tried that?
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Reason I think its not wiring, as DLK hasn't said it cuts out (on a single speak or all speakers) at low volume.
To me, its a voice coil breaking down when working hard, sending amp into shutdown.
Tech2 doesn't talk to the amp on CCR2006, its a simple amp IC with the standard overload protection.
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Could well be. Amp is clearly seeing something it doesn't like.
Probably worth changing the speakers with the head unit anyway, as a modern head unit will fry them. ::)
Kevin
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Had the radio on this morning, about an hour with no probs -apart from Chris Gobby idiot Moyles!
CD on coming home, and yep, got the little micro-second skips and it cut out twice - not stopped, carried on playing with no sound for a second or two.
Doing the wishbones tomorrow and flogging it I think - new Astra estate is beckoning!
Bit gutted as I genuinely love the Omega, but little niggles like this do my head in as I'm in the car for two hours a day, plus the MPG ain't great - a nearly-new diesel Insignia would cost similar to buy and run for a year as the Omega does in fuel alone.
Might get a new Clarion before it goes..........
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*UPDATE*
It seems to have sorted itself out!
Removed cartridge, stuck 4 different CDs in and all played OK.
Stuck the other 4 back in (when it started to play up) and they played OK too. :-/
Normal or odd?