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Old 06-18-2007, 12:29 PM   #2
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Neil Pollicott wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently bought a Sony CDX-R3300 which i'm happy with but I fear may
> be a little restrictive.
> I've got a PDA using TomTom, and I want directions to come out of the
> speakers, ideally over the top of music. (It doesn't bother me too
> much if the music isn't dimmed.)
> So, the problem being, this head unit has no aux inputs, and only
> have 1 pre out. So questions are;
>
> 1) If I have a 4 channel amplifier connected from the speaker outputs
> of the head unit to high level inputs, will it sound crap?


Shouldn't do.

> 2) I presume I could then use a low level input on the amplifier to
> connect to the headphone jack on the PDA. Would this then play over
> the top of any input from the high level, or would it have to be
> switched?


I doubt it , probably needs switching.
>
> 3) Is there a better way to achieve what I want, short of buying an
> other new head unit?


Even if you do buy a new HU you would need to swap between input and
radio/cd to get the tomtom directions.
I'd just buy a tomtom car kit with its own speaker.
It really is much easier.

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