smartenna and alpine ai-net cd changer

[robr]

anyone managed to mate the two of these? i emailed bryan zublin, but in the search for instant gratification, i figured i'd try here and see if anyone had any info. with the alpine cha-s634 changer and the smartenna, the antenna just acts as it did without the smartenna.

 

[SolidCitizen]

My experience is that the Smartenna works fine with the mp3 changer.

My changer has some skip and skip-recovery issues, though. Sigh, why don't they put a fat memory buffer in these things? A few small shock absorbers on the drive mechanism is not good enough!

 

[NyC NsX]

i just disconnected my antenna because the reception in my area is very strong for what i listen to.

 

[nsxxtreme]

Originally posted by SolidCitizen:
My experience is that the Smartenna works fine with the mp3 changer.

My changer has some skip and skip-recovery issues, though. Sigh, why don't they put a fat memory buffer in these things? A few small shock absorbers on the drive mechanism is not good enough!

Did you set your changer to run vertical instead of horizontal? This is the main cause of skipping.

[This message has been edited by nsxxtreme (edited 05 August 2002).]

 

[SolidCitizen]

Originally posted by nsxxtreme:
Did you set your changer to run vertical instead of horizontal? This is the main cause of skipping.

[This message has been edited by nsxxtreme (edited 05 August 2002).]

Yep. I set the selectors on both sides to all the way vertical.

 

[Russ]

Originally posted by robr:
...with the alpine cha-s634 changer and the smartenna, the antenna just acts as it did without the smartenna.

I have the smartenna and the CHA-S634. The combo works fine, however, sometimes when the CHA-S634 is initializing or loading a recently-inserted carrier of discs, the antenna will rise. Then, once the track starts playing, the antenna will retract. I suspect that during the extended load interval of an mp3 CD-R, the datastream is interrupted, and the smartenna thinks it's radio time.

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Russ
'91 black/black


[This message has been edited by Russ (edited 05 August 2002).]

 

[robr]

hmmm, ill give it some more time then and see what happens. i gave it about a minute but figured that should be enough.