aux in

hi latey i have been using my mp3 player in my car and my head unit has an aux in in the front so i have been using that but the problem is that it just does not get loud enough and i think it is because the signal is not strong enough so i was wondering is there anyway to make it louder.

Is the cable pretty new? How good of quality (bitrate) are your mp3s? Best I can say to get max loudness is to crank up the player all the way, turn off bass boost, and adjust sound/turn up speaker frequency with HU equalizer. I guess you could also buy a separate equalizer if the HUs isn't that great. When I hook up my minidisc, it can get pretty loud but I have a nice equalizer/sound shaping setup plus I use RCA inputs.

Did you ever get that DVD receiver or what do you have?

a line amp ..... but you might try looking in the headunit manual to see if there is a way to up the volume from the aux in. It might have like 3 settings and typically the factory setting is the lowest one.

Is the cable pretty new? How good of quality (bitrate) are your mp3s? Best I can say to get max loudness is to crank up the player all the way, turn off bass boost, and adjust sound/turn up speaker frequency with HU equalizer. I guess you could also buy a separate equalizer if the HUs isn't that great. When I hook up my minidisc, it can get pretty loud but I have a nice equalizer/sound shaping setup plus I use RCA inputs.

Did you ever get that DVD receiver or what do you have?

na,i called up pioneer and they fixed it even better is that a local electronics store is recogniazed by pioneer. the hu is 680mp or something like that. i will look into the aux setting

and there is a very big difference between a cd and aux in in terms of volume

so do i need something like thttp://www.phoenixgold.com/2004/linedrivers.html because my manuels say nothing about aux input setting. and then would i need somthing like this for the wire. http://monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=135

I've been using a deh-p7600mp since they came out. I think yours is the next series up, so it should have all of the same controls for each input. Scroll thru your menu to your SLA, (signal level adjustment)...this control compensates for the different signal levels of different inputs...This adjustment can step-up weaker signals and step-down stronger ones to keep the outputs of all of your inputs relatively the same...

can anyone tell me if that what i posted to post ago is what i need because after i tried the sla thing which did help but two things one a cd is louder and 2 i don't have that much bass. like i have my set up right now to where there is no loudness feature on like bass boost or loud and i like no keep it that way because i have everything set just so with a cd that i don't want to have to re set everything for the mpe3 player.

if this is your radio,
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/product/details/0,,2076_310069882_338834008,00.html
then you should be able to set-it-up like mine

each input on my head unit, (tuner-cd-aux), has it's own separate sound processing controls and setup controls...

this one is mine. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/product/details/0,,2076_310069882_291094587,00.html and i tried that.

i have audio in on mine too for mp3... but yeah there is a difference on aux and cd player loudness.. i just turn up all the volume of my mp3 player and changed my pioneer stereo settings to more bass, custom, etc. with ur audio option ur control as well

this is the pioneer stereo i have..
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pio/pe/images/portal/cit_3442/338818745DEH-P6900UB%20large.jpg

i have audio in on mine too for mp3... but yeah there is a difference on aux and cd player loudness.. i just turn up all the volume of my mp3 player and changed my pioneer stereo settings to more bass, custom, etc. with ur audio option ur control as well

yeah that's right, forgot about that,
where do you have the volume on your mp3 player...did you check that too...??

the volume on my mp3 player is all the way up.

have u checked ur audio in cable? maybe its faulty, might be the cable is bad itself??

usually, full featured head units have enough signal processing to take care of your particular problem...
if all of your internal processing is still not enough,
then you should go for the external processing,
(line drivers, signal processors, active switchers, etc.)

ok so what i posted before will work then.

ok so what i posted before will work then.

because you already paid for the internal processing, I would suggest that you use it for all it's worth...
however, if you still can't seem to get it right, then there's always the option, (external processing)...