2001 C240 - Alpine CD Changer
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2001 C240 - Alpine CD Changer
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I've been looking around lately and I have found some sites advertising adapters to plug an alpine MBUS changer into the Fiber Optic mercedes factory deck connections for my car.... I have two questions... FIrst.... has anyone used this kind of adapter with success? Second... I'm curious about going one step further and using an Alpine AI-Net MP3 Changer.... Crutchfield sells an adapter which allows you to use an AI-Net changer with an MBUS deck.... I'm curious if I could stack these two connectors together in order to use an AI-Net changer with my factory deck.... Does anyone have any advice/input as to whether this is a possibility?
I've been looking around lately and I have found some sites advertising adapters to plug an alpine MBUS changer into the Fiber Optic mercedes factory deck connections for my car.... I have two questions... FIrst.... has anyone used this kind of adapter with success? Second... I'm curious about going one step further and using an Alpine AI-Net MP3 Changer.... Crutchfield sells an adapter which allows you to use an AI-Net changer with an MBUS deck.... I'm curious if I could stack these two connectors together in order to use an AI-Net changer with my factory deck.... Does anyone have any advice/input as to whether this is a possibility?
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I thought the MBUS-AINet adapter is just a cable and that you need to have a CD changer that has a switch for MBus/AINet on it... like the S634.
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can you explain what you mean to me? the s634 is exactly what I bought, but I haven't busted it open yet because if I can't put it in my car, I'm going to sell it on ebay... (I bought it for like half price at an electronics store that's going out of business... no returns)
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Originally Posted by johnnyboy_98
can you explain what you mean to me? the s634 is exactly what I bought, but I haven't busted it open yet because if I can't put it in my car, I'm going to sell it on ebay... (I bought it for like half price at an electronics store that's going out of business... no returns)
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ok, I'm confused... Crutchfield sells an item from alpine that they describe as "Female AI-Net to Male MBUS adapter...
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-gynyRnX...ch=alpine+mbus
so you're saying that I don't need this because the 634 also supports Mbus? If it truly supports mbus so you can plug and play without any adapters/confusion I'm going to be a happy camper, because I've been told by a few people that AI-net decks won't work with mbus because they require 2 way communication, rather than being completely controlled by the in dash stereo like an Mbus...
Also, can you point me in the direction of where to go for the fiberoptic-mbus adapter? I had found it a week ago, but no sign of it in my searches last night...
http://www.crutchfield.com/S-gynyRnX...ch=alpine+mbus
so you're saying that I don't need this because the 634 also supports Mbus? If it truly supports mbus so you can plug and play without any adapters/confusion I'm going to be a happy camper, because I've been told by a few people that AI-net decks won't work with mbus because they require 2 way communication, rather than being completely controlled by the in dash stereo like an Mbus...
Also, can you point me in the direction of where to go for the fiberoptic-mbus adapter? I had found it a week ago, but no sign of it in my searches last night...
