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I know & feel your pain...

Posted by Grant99 (A) on October 4, 2019 at 18:08:32

In Reply to: walkman to car usb input posted by texana on October 1, 2019 at 22:18:03:

Like you, I really like to play cassettes in my car. I still dub LPs, this is most of my tape collection...I don't have very many pre-recorded cassettes.

After a number of years of placing a walkman on the passenger seat in my 2010 VW Golf, I got fed up. So here was my solution: dump the factory double DIN CD changer and replace it with 2 single DIN units in its place...a single DIN Kenwood Excelon CD receiver with a NOS Kenwood tape deck receiver. It's a great combination: a modern receiver with full bluetooth capability, it will play single CDs (I do this sometimes), and it has this spotify,pandora crap that I will never use....BUT...it has a rear AUX input, which I feed the dash mounted tape player into.

Right now, if I want to play a tape, I just select the AUX input on the Kenwood Excelon...and I can play tapes.

Thing is, Kenwood is the ONLY manufacturer currently producing a head unit with REAR AUX input...nobody else does.

So my suggestion is go aftermarket, get a Kenwood Excelon single DIN unit, and wire it up with another single DIN tape player (you can find them on fleabay, just keep watching for them), and you are done. It's the best thing I ever did for my car audio!!

As an aside, the Kenwood tuner sounds better than the stock VW unit, the CD player does too...there isn't much downside as I see it.

Incidentaly, I sold the idea on all this to the wife with "well dear, I need to do this so that the bluetooth works properly, so you can get a hold of me all the time when I am driving".

There's nothing like the sweet sound of a nice chrome or metal tape you dubbed playing in your car!

Cheers
Grant

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