Thread: Carputer to car speakers - how to??

Audio goes to either Aux inputs of a head unit or directly to your amp (if you have one).

You can get a small screen but it won't read text very well unless its VGA which costs $300-400.

Search the forums and you will find everything you need.

On a sidenote, maybe we should add this info to the newbie FAQ sticky since these kind of questions get asked almost daily.

I used a 12V FM modulator, and it works very well.

What kind of car do you have? Some cars have AUX input adaptors for the stock Head units.

I can't and won't suggest a screen for under $100. Even if it's just to view winamp. Spend the extra $80 and get a decent 7" TFT screen.

Also, if you care about audio quality, you may not, do NOT get an FM modulator. The quality is terrible.

Originally Posted by Defiler

Also, if you care about audio quality, you may not, do NOT get an FM modulator. The quality is terrible.

I have to disagree. I'm extremely picky about sound quality, and the quality from my modulator is very good. Of course, I spent $60 on it. I didn't by a cheap little modulator like some that I have seen. The sound quality of my VBR MP3's is very close to that of the CD in the head unit when I've done a head-to-head comparison by having the CD running and then just switch to FM where the MP3 of that same song is running through the modulator.

Originally Posted by blurp

I have to disagree. I'm extremely picky about sound quality, and the quality from my modulator is very good. Of course, I spent $70 on it. I didn't by a cheap little modulator like some that I have seen. The sound quality of my VBR MP3's is very close to that of the CD in the head unit when I've done a head-to-head comparison by having the CD running and then just switch to FM where the MP3 of that same song is running through the modulator.

Unless Blitzsafe.com comes through for me, I may be in the modulator camp. What model do you have and where did you get it?

TIA

i have an Anaba. I don't know what the model is, but it runs of either 12V or 2 AAA batteries. It is fixed-frequency and has 2 channels, 88.7 or 89.1. I bought it at my local stereo shop, Audiomasters.

It's not so much that it won't work, but that the picture quality is so bad on the cheap monitors that I have seen, that you can't even read decent sized text. Especially on the playlist on Winamp, if you are indeed going to use Winamp.

Originally Posted by blurp

It's not so much that it won't work, but that the picture quality is so bad on the cheap monitors that I have seen, that you can't even read decent sized text. Especially on the playlist on Winamp, if you are indeed going to use Winamp.

Thank you for clarifying that. Yes this is what I ment.

Also, on the FM Modulator comment...I would disagree again. FM cannot transmit the freq. range a CD or good quality MP3 would have. Sorry it just won't sound as good on a good system.