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suitable preamp into car cassette adapter?

I have had the following set up in my car for quite a few years:

AGPtEK A02 8GB MP3 Player output into Fiio E5 headphone amp into cassette adapter for car radio.

It has worked ok, but I've always had to have the volume of both the MP3 player and amp at maximum and then even the car radio about 3/4 max to get a decent volume.

Lately, I've been considering switching out the Fiio amp. There is the A3 model which is presumably double in output power, but coming at a higher cost, but I also recently came across this kit amp:

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According to specs, I could run this from 12 VDC in the car and the audio output is specified at 500mW maximum power output @ 8 ohms. I have two questions:

1) Would this be a suitable swap out replacement of the Fiio amp? and

2) If so, what modifications, if any, would need to be done to the amp?

Thanks!

Reply to
caraudioguy
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Cassette adaptors are meant to run on headphone outputs, not speaker outputs. The head in it would likely fry, there would be excessive background noise & distortion.

NT

Reply to
tabbypurr

Have you considered picking up an inexpensive aftermarket car receiver with Bluetooth at Wally World and using the variant of the AGPTEK MP3 player with Bluetooth? And joining us in the 21st century? It's a nice place I guarantee you'll like it

Reply to
bitrex

Define "inexpensive" because the ones I see start at $100. Of course, I'm welcome to suggestions if you have them. My car is a 2000 Mercury Sable.

With an 18 year old car, anything beyond what I'm trying to do might stick out like a sore thumb to thieves. I've been using this E5 amp/ MP3 player/ cassette adapter combination for over 12 years and it doesn't look attractive to wannabe thieves.

I tried doing an auxiliary input modification and it worked, but the volume output from the combination (less cassette adapter) was even less than with the cassette adapter. Of course, I might just go with something like the Fiio A3 which has more output than my E5 at about double the cost of the E5 though.

And joining us in the 21st century? It's a nice

I prefer the 20th century and only exist in the 21st because I have to.

Reply to
caraudioguy

That's surprising - more that it was insufficient both ways than that it was less. Are the plugs all the way in?

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Reply to
Jasen Betts

Car stereo theft is a dying crime; back in the early-mid 1990s a car CD changer cost like $800 and was a worthy target. A Bluetooth enabled receiver with CD like this isn't much more than $100 and has almost no fence value, not really worth the risk of even for druggies

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bitrex

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