Does the car come with the auxiliary wire or do I need to go get one at Best Buy/Radio Shack? Who has it and does it work well? Thanks!

 

it works great if u get the right wire... it accually i think sounds better then cd's... but yes you do have to buy one

 

I highly recommend one of these retractable cords.... its flat so it wont get (as) smashed on the console lid while driving and the iPod is out. Plus it zips up nicley when not iin use saving valuable space.

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/s...productID=8348



Zip Linq's 3.5mm retractable audio cables extend from 4 to 48 inches instantly with a gentle tug on the two ends of the cables. Then tug the ends again and they retract. They're the perfect travel cables for your portable audio devices. Extend the cables when you need them and zip them up when you don't.

 

That's pretty trick, not too bad.....

Which ever cable you get, make sure it has the two black rings on each end, otherwise a single ring will only be mono, not stereo.....

So you guys think the sound quality is better then the CD-R's?

 

If you're not using the original CD, I think sound quality on a CDR or iPod has more to do with the bit rate that the songs were originally ripped (kpbs) from the original CD. For instance in iTunes or Windows Media Player I always choose the highest setting available when ripping a song. With hard drive storage and iPods getting bigger and cheaper, space really isnt a concern and you preserve the audio quality for better listening when the top is down and the stereo is blasting!

 

Yeah, that's a good point. Although I just burned a CD-R last night at 192 bit rate and it sounds just as good as some that I burned a couple of years ago at 256. But at 192 I was able to put on 9 CD's worth of music while the most I could squeeze ob before was 6.

I'm kind of concerned about leaving my $250 MP3 player out in the hot Texas sun. Can you leave it in the car and not have it go dead?

 

When playing CDs that you have recorded yourself, is there anything special with the Shaker systems you have to do to get them to play? I remember way back in 2005, people, i think, were having problems playing CDs that they had burned themselves. Is that problem solved?

 

Mine is a 2005, and it plays no problem. Sounds good to me!

Now, I don't think it will play Windows WMA format, maybe that's what you're refering to?

 

If you take a song off the ipod and burn it to a CD at the same birate then they should sound identical (provided you turn off the equalizer on the Ipod). The only reason the Ipod would sound better than a CD is because it has a graphic equalizer which is miles more advanced than the Shaker's BASS and TREBLE settings.

 

check amazon they have some great prices on ipod stuff

 

Great tip!