Aux in only playing through one speaker??

gary the great

I have an Alpine CDE- 9981R headunit in my car.

It has full ipod speed connectivity etc but i dont use an Ipod, so bought this cable

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370174479249&ssPageName=ADME:X:eRTM:GB:1123

Its all now connected up, but when i play my mp3 player the sound only comes out through one right hand side speaker and its very low quality.

Any ideas and how to fix this?

milltown

Send the cable back and try a new one. How expensive are they from a reputable dealer? By the time you've sent one or two of them back to Hong Kong and either given up on it or got a good one, you could have spent as much.

Does pulling the plug out slightly make any difference? You're sure the headphone socket on your MP3 is alright?

Vain

Are you sure your putting the cable into the aux in hole. Some cd players have a aux out like my cd player and i tried putting my ipod on to it but was only playing out one speaker and very low the same as your saying.

gary the great

Vain wrote: »

Are you sure your putting the cable into the aux in hole. Some cd players have a aux out like my cd player and i tried putting my ipod on to it but was only playing out one speaker and very low the same as your saying.

Well theres only one connection place for the wire, its a weird "D" shape so defo in the righ place. I got an ipod wire with the headunit and it works fine.

I first thought it might be the wire, so i got one of the lads to run one of them current tests on it and its working fine.

Im stumped

Vain

gary the great wrote: »

Well theres only one connection place for the wire, its a weird "D" shape so defo in the righ place. I got an ipod wire with the headunit and it works fine.

I first thought it might be the wire, so i got one of the lads to run one of them current tests on it and its working fine.

Im stumped

And where you plug in the wire into the cd player does in say aux in? Your aux cable looks wired, this the one thats used in most dvd players http://cgi.ebay.ie/Male-M-M-3-5mm-Audio-Extension-Cable-Line-In-Aux-Wire_W0QQitemZ360142818160QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Electronics_Accessories_Wires_Cables?hash=item360142818160&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

sundodger5

did you go into the setup menu as per the instruction on that e bay page.
dont know what it is for but you never know..

gary the great

sundodger5 wrote: »

did you go into the setup menu as per the instruction on that e bay page.
dont know what it is for but you never know..

Yep went into the setup and turend Aux on,,,its not this though as if Aux was off nothing would come through the speakers.

Im defo putting the cable in the right place, its the ipod/aux in connection. The only available connection.

I was hoping there would eb an easy solution, dying to get this sorted!

congo_90

I know this may sound stupid but did you check balance settings? sometimes a radio can have separate settings for each mode (tuner,cd,aux in etc). Check its set for left-right balance and not biased to either side. This caught me out before on a head unit
Hope I helped. Tis a very weird looking connection.

gary the great

congo_90 wrote: »

I know this may sound stupid but did you check balance settings? sometimes a radio can have separate settings for each mode (tuner,cd,aux in etc). Check its set for left-right balance and not biased to either side. This caught me out before on a head unit
Hope I helped. Tis a very weird looking connection.

Yep checked it, when i put the left the whole way up, theres no sound at all!!

Alun

milltown wrote: »

You're sure the headphone socket on your MP3 is alright?

Agree ... try pulling the 3.5mm jack plug out ever so slightly from the iPod .. sometimes the rings on the jack and the connectors in the socket don't always line up quite 100%.

gary the great

Alun wrote: »

Agree ... try pulling the 3.5mm jack plug out ever so slightly from the iPod .. sometimes the rings on the jack and the connectors in the socket don't always line up quite 100%.

Yep tried it! Tried putting it in and out slightly, results in a small change in volume that it.....

also tried another mp3 player and same problem :mad:

Jumpy

gary the great wrote: »

Yep tried it! Tried putting it in and out slightly, results in a small change in volume that it.....

also tried another mp3 player and same problem :mad:

I am getting exactly the same problem from my Aldi head unit.
I think its just dodgy.

nmacc

milltown wrote: »

Send the cable back and try a new one. How expensive are they from a reputable dealer? By the time you've sent one or two of them back to Hong Kong and either given up on it or got a good one, you could have spent as much.QUOTE]

Although I hate paying outrageous prices for simple cables, I have to agree with the above. After all, if the Sale of Goods Act applied to eBay (now there's a legal question) you'd be sending it back straight away on the basis of not "fit for the purpose for which it is sold". That is, it's an iPod adaptor for the Alpine, and it don't bleedin' adapt.

Having said that, there are three different flavours of 3.5mm jack plug. Basically it's an American 1/8" plug which is available in Military & Consumer versions. Just to make things interesting there's a Japanese version as well. I've never sat down and tried to compare them (OK, I'm sad, but I'm not that sad), but the difference seems to be down to the size and shape of the ball on the end (stop tittering in the cheap seats).

Anyway, wrong plug won't fit so could be the answer. Not really your problem as you didn't get what you paid for. No point in chasing £7.99 if you've already left +ve feedback, so go out and get ripped off by an Irish retailer like the rest of us.