DAB/Cd player

[griffin5]

Recommendations please. :confused:

[pammy]

I have the Blaupunkt Woodstock52 (now up to model 54) which I love. Takes MP3 on cd or via MMC. The Woodstock is generally considered one of the best DAB/MP3 units.

DAB is great but you have to have the right aerial. An internal one just won't do it - so at the mo I have no DAB :( coz I aint drilling a hole on my car!!

[samuelellis]

bring the car to me pammy i will drill it :D

that stick ont he window internal one is supposed to be good

[pammy]

bring the car to me pammy i will drill it :D

that stick ont he window internal one is supposed to be good

The guy from Braybrooks reckoned it wasn't ;) plus it's ugly :D

[samuelellis]

id say e-mail blaupunkt directly and see what they say

i ahve found dealers tend to say sommat is crap so they cna say oh there is this and its better (they usually ahve a bigger markup)

but i will NEVER take any car to a specialist to have anything fitted ive seen speakers held in with zip ties and hot glue cos its hidden behind a grill (and that is a big place) oh and some pretty dangerous (and i mena your car could explode) corners cut as they arent seen by joe public

[samuelellis]

i cna give examples of the above as well

[guydewdney]

I have the 53 woodstock, and the stick-on glass aerial (the same thing the mobile phones use). The 53 records the DAB onto the MMC card - the 54 has a buffer so it records (and i think you can re-wind) the dab back a bit.

Pammy - theres a magnetic aerial - considered that?

[pammy]

I have the 53 woodstock, and the stick-on glass aerial (the same thing the mobile phones use). The 53 records the DAB onto the MMC card - the 54 has a buffer so it records (and i think you can re-wind) the dab back a bit.

Pammy - theres a magnetic aerial - considered that?

Guy - magnetic? not sure I've heard of that one. There is one that can "clip" onto the boot lip, which I have considered but it means loose wires in the boot and with the roof going uppy-downy - it again isn't really a suitable option :( Will have to have a look for the magnetic one though see how that might look. tbh - DAB reception here isn;t that brill anyway - we lose it totally between Leeds and Harrogate and it gets very confused switching between DAM and FM that until DAB IS better embedded I'm happy to stick with the old analogue service. Only for now that is :D

Sam - the guy from Braybrooks did not try to sell me anything else - quite the opposite otherwise I would have been much more cynical about his intentions ;) .

[jukie]

I have an Alpine DAB/MP3 head unit. Sound is magnificent and the internal aerial is unobtrusively stuck in the top left hand corner of my windscreen. It's about an inch square in size with a thin, transparent strip running down from it, about 4 inches in length.

[glojo]

Could someone explain to me the pro's and con's of a digital radio. Canthey use an ordinary aerial?

Could you connect them to a GPS aerial.

I have one of the first Pioneer DVD Navigation systems in my Sprinter, 1. Is there an 'add-on' tuner that I could use?
2. Are they getting cheaper to buy?
3. Do they cover the South West of England (We still cannot receive channel 5)

Thanks for any advice.

Hopefully this is not hijacking this interesting thread??

Regards,
John

[guydewdney]

pro - perfect almost cd quality sound
con - marginal reception sounds like its under water (blob blob blob)
pro - no numbers to remember
pro - instant tuning
pro- more stations
theres a goodmans radio that uses the existing aerial - but most use a phone type.

pammy - go to http://www.my-blaupunkt.co.uk/ and look under other then accessories - about 2/3rds way down is the aerial - its designed for soft tops..

[samuelellis]

actually they are not nearly cd quality

most of them broadcast at pitiful bitrates but its more music at the end of the day

sam - the audiophile