IPOD connection with CDR220 - Having problems

[pdavis1]

:help: I got the AUX turned on no problem. Connected the blue connector to the wires per the Becker instructions. Plugged in the RCA to mini connector. Just to make sure things were going right, I plugged the IPOD in. I get sound but it is aweful, the vocals are missing, there is no bass. I double checked my wiring per the Becker instructions, took the RCA to mini cable in the house and connected it to the home stereo and it worked fine. I noticed that the volume is very low if only one RCA is connected. What is wrong! Is my radio screwed up? Is my Becker connector bad?

[Orient Express]

Do you have the Bose amplifier? If so on the row of 3 connectors that the Becker Blue connector is plugged in the back of the radio, make sure that 3rd connector on the end of that row is plugged in as well. That is power for Bose. The middle connector is for control of the CD changer, but since you got the Aux enabled on the radio, I assume that this plug is not connected.

Do you have the pins in the blue becker connector inserted correctly or is the polarity reversed on the audio input connectors?

What sort of connection do you have at your ipod end? Is it through the headphone jack or through the bottom connector?

Have you used this radio with a CD changer? Did it sound OK with the changer?

[pdavis1]

My car is a 2000 Boxster S I bought last year with 16,000 miles on it. I don't think is has the Bose amplifier. There was no connector at all in the top or C receptacle. One thing that interests me is the fact that when I replaced the battery last summer, the radio code was incorrect. I had to get the serial number from the radio and have my dealer, Porsche Exchange near Chicago, give me the correct code. That indicated that this is not the original radio as delivered with the car. The car has no door speakers which I would like to find and install but it does have the rear speakers / sliding door tray. Could the car have came with this originally?

I have double checked the pins a couple of times. I even checked a couple of different sites that give the function of each pin to make sure. Late last night I even removed the wires from the connector and clipped them onto the radio individually.

At the ipod end I first checked using the headphone jack. Then I went in the house and grabbed the docking station so I would be sending the signal from the bottom.

I don't have a changer but everything else sounds fine, Radio, CD, or even the IPOD using the FM transmitter that I am trying to avoid for intermittent static problems.

The sound almost has to be heard to be believed. It's like the vocals are way in the background and it sounds like the speakers are worst than the Porsche speakers really are.

[Tool Pants]

Not the stero guy, but....

Bose started in 2002. If you do not have door speakers then you do not have the normal optional amp in the front trunk behind the spare tire.

[pdavis1]

:D Figured it out. The grounding pin #18 on my radio doesn't ground. I unplugged the brown wire from the kit and grounded it to the radio case and everything worked. So, I moved the brown wire next to the red wire {#17} on the bottom and it appears to be ground. Either way, it's fixed, works great. Thanks anyway!