bch3779

I installed an OEM Mazda Ipod adaptor a few weeks back and it worked great. Today I took the car for a little trip and used my Ipod for tunes. I had the car setting at idle for a few minutes talking to a buddy and when I went back the volume was gone on the Ipod. I unplugged it and turned the car off and plugged it back in and everything was fine. That could be a small glitch as I experienced other problems with various adaptors. Now....I don't if I'm going crazy but the Ipod voume seems a little bit less than CD. I don't know if has always been like that or if I just noticed it now. If I put a CD in and have the volume at 20 and I switch to the Ipod at the same volume it seems that the volume on the Ipod is lower...not much but noitceable. I can actually MAX the volume out and it doesn't distort. On previous adaptors the Ipod audio actually seemed better than CD. So....do any of you guys running the OEM adaptor think that your Ipod volume is lower than CD? Do you think the adaptor is bad or is there a setting I'm missing?

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DarkBrew

Yes. It's lower.
I tried to turn up the IPOD volume with no change to the adaptor hook-up.

bch3779

OK...well at least its normal. I looked into the Ipod settings but the volume limiter has no effect on the output just the line out for the headphones. I had a nice Kenwood Excelon deck with Kenwood Ipod integration in my TC 2 years ago and the sound was absolutley amazing! It was actually better than the CD player and that player had Burr Brown DACs (top of the line Digital-Analog-Converters)! I guess I was expecting the same results. Oh well....its not that bad and it definatley works great.

irfan

its not a problem with the ipod... the ipod sends out a line-out signal when connected via the dock adapter and the volume control will not affect it at all... i think the lower volume probably has t do with the input to the HU itself.