I hear ya!

The CD player that c/w my Westy has those little  volume buttons.
Thankfully it has a button that mutes the volume by about 3/4. You
know for those times when you think your engine may be making some
kind of death rattle, and you just *have* to hear it!

The CD player that came with the donor/parts Vanagon, has a volume
KNOB! Pretty happy about that. I'll be installing it. Of course
there's all those other little buttons.....

Neil.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:09 AM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:
> I purchased a no name one from Best Buy a while back that i'm really happy
>  with. It has the regular input on the front, and about 3 spare
>  inputs/outpurts in the form of RCA plugs on the back. These are accessible
>  by popping out the ash tray, so if you want to hook up a TV or Playstation
>  or something of that nature to the car's stereo.....it's very simple.
>
>  My biggest pet peve, is the fact that its so hard to find a stereo these
>  days with a VOLUME KNOB. everyone has gone to buttons. This makes life
>  really hard in my mind, its much more challenging to make a volume
>  adjustment without spending half a  minute looking at the stereo face (while
>  driving). Of those available that i know of with a volume knob, i really
>  like the Sony Xpod series. I got one for my brother's volvo and its simple
>  to use, it was pretty affordable, and it can tell you the battery voltage, a
>  feature i think to be really cool and practical.
>
>  I also really enjoy having a very long cable from the headphone jack of the
>  ipod to the face of the stereo. This gives me free range of motion to hold
>  it/control it while driving (though i usually just have a playlist going). I
>  can then simply sit it down on the dash, or in the cupholder of my center
>  console.
>
>  I REALLY hate volume "buttons".
>
>  -Craig
>  '85GL
>
>  On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>  > I had to buy an antennae adapter.
>  >
>  > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > At 02:28 AM 4/10/2008, Jim Felder wrote...
>  > >
>  > > > Nothing fancy, must have aux. input for iPod.
>  > > >
>  > >
>  > > Last year, I got a Panasonic CQ-C5303U for about $100 from buy.com,
>  > > then added the iPod adapter cable (CA-DC300U) for about $50. Everything
>  > > plugs in back, the iPod can stay in the glove box. Works great - the
>  > > iPod goes on/off with the key and resumes playing where it left off
>  > > (unless it's been off for over a day). You can select playlists from
>  > > the deck, etc. That deck has a motorized tilting faceplate, which works
>  > > out well. The low mounting in the Vanagon makes a non-tilting deck hard
>  > > to read. Even comes with a remote, so I can change the volume, etc.
>  > > from the back of the Westy.
>  > >
>  > > The dash cutout is _almost_ DIN sized. To install it, I had to slightly
>  > > file the corners of the dash opening. They're rounded and need to be
>  > > squared up to allow a DIN sized deck to fit. That's probably why so few
>  > > decks are listed as fitting. At the back, it's a tight fit with the
>  > > cables (especially the antenna cable), but it works.
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Michael in San Antonio
>  > 91GL AT 'Gringo'
>  >
>

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