S-2000 Roadster
#1244
Patience, grasshopper. No need to throw price tags around. Alpine didn't get any more than $2,000 of that. Your followup posts seem to indicate that it is working for you now, in any case.While not having the ability to select playlists and tracks from the screen is a disadvantage of Bluetooth, I'd accept it if it connected reliably. Mine does not, and in a more than $100,000 car I should not have to spend 5 minutes getting my iPod to connect.
The main Alpine head unit supports FM radio as a basic feature. Only HD Radio, Sirius Satellite, and Bluetooth are features that are added by external boxes. In other words, it's not possible for you to lose FM radio unless you remove the entire head unit and leave a hole in your dash.I don't require specifically high definition radio, but I do not want to give up the ability to listen to FM radio. Especially since Sirius requires an expensive subscription and their a-la-carte plan is not available for the Alpine unit.
Note that HD Radio does not stand for high definition radio. It's 64kb MP3 quality digital radio. In other words, it's highly compressed, lossy quality.
The audio-in plug isn't plainly visible on the iPod connector - it one of the many tiny pins that you see inside the connector. It's the other end of the cable where the obvious audio-in plug appears, and hopefully you haven't torn into your dash. If you check the owners manual and/or browse through the menus (not while driving, of course, but with the parking brake engaged) then you'll see that the AUX-in selection is enabled or disabled by a menu setting. I haven't used it myself, but at a minimum you'll have to enable it.I do not see any audio-in plug on the iPod connector or on the unit. Nor is there an AUX-in selection on the Source menu.
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