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- From: s.clemow@trl.oz.au (Steve Clemow)
- Subject: Noise from Philips portable CD player
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.065139.13091@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Reply-To: s.clemow@trl.oz.au
- Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia.
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:51:39 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- I have got a Philips AZ6801 portable CD player which I have attempted
- to connect to the 3.5mm jack plug input on my car stereo in an attempt to
- obtain a better sound than I could using the cassette-type CD adaptors
- that are available.
-
- The problem is that when I tried this, the music was practically drowned
- out by noise from the CD player which sounded like electromagnetic
- interference caused by the tracking and/or laser mechanism or something.
- If the CD was paused or if the volume was increased, there was no change
- in this noise either, which indicated that it was caused by interference of
- some form.
-
- Has anyone come across this problem before with connecting CD players
- to car stereos in this manner? What is it caused by - poor grounding or
- shielding, or perhaps power supply? (ie. I haven't tried it yet, but would
- using batteries instead of a cigarette lighter power adaptor remove this
- noise?). The noise cannot be heard at all when using the cassette-type
- adaptor, or just headphones either.
-
- My car stereo is an AWA (not sure of model no. - but would be pretty
- much mid-range in terms of quality). Has this occurred with other
- makes of CD player or car stereo??
-
- Any suggestions, comments etc. would be most appreciated.
-
- Steve.
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