XDA Carkit

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know:

Is it possible to connect my car speakers to the O2 XDA Carkit directly ?

Marcel

[Peter Poelman]

Nah, not enough power. You need your car stereo as an amplifier. Alternatively, you can buy car amlifiers which are only amplifiers, but then make sure you don't end up buying a so-called 'booster', because it is meant to amplify a signal which is already at speaker level even further, for those that have sacrificed all space in their trunks for sub-sub-sub woofers and other tools for terrorizing their fellow humans.

[derekcfoley]

You could try a £10 maplin cassette adapter, http://www.maplin.co.uk spliced onto a o2 xda headphone cable. You can use the nokia adapter version straight from the box, as the connector is the same size, but it is mono. Hence why I adapted a spare xda headset instead, as I thought the button on the mic pod might be useful, not to mention portable between different cars.

However, I have had problems with "transmit" noise using this "lash up" method. So its not perfect, but to be honest if you want music playback or tom tom navigator audio output its excellent.

Does anyone know if the external amp/back input of a hifi would stop the reception of the transmission noise during a call/gprs exchange. I'm using an old crappy car stereo without a seperate input, and the car is probably worth less than the xda as well! hence the cassette adapter method. :wink:

[Pc-Mobile]

The MP3/Headset Audio Adapter from the other thread may be a solution?

[Anonymous]

It's a O2 Carkit with 2 outgoing speaker cables.

If i connect it directly to the cables that are coming from my car radio, will that work or will it blow up my xda.

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[Anonymous]

it works through the nokia car radio kit that was already in my car with my nokia phone, I simply plugged the radio relay kit intop the speaker socket of the O2 car kit and joined the yellow mute wires together.