CD to Tape Player Adaptor Question

[ISAslot]

My tape adaptor died a while ago, so I went to get a new one. I bought an RCA one, but when I went out to my car and tried it out, it sounded horrible (mids and highs were muted). So I went to get the Sony adaptor, like the one I had before, and it worked better, but now I'm missing some lower mids + lows.

I took my old tape adaptor apart, to try to fix it, and while I was doing this I came up with an idea to hard wire the 'head wires' to the head wires inside the tape unit. Of course I will need a way to trick the tape deck to think there is a tape in it, but besides this, would this work?

The car stereo is a Sony XR-1750, and the adaptors are a CPA - 11 (old one) and a CPA - 9C. On the inside of the old adaptor the wire from the CD input goes to a small circuit board with 4 resistors, then 3 wires from this board go to the head of the tape.

 

[ISAslot]

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[b0mbrman]

I don't think it would because normally the adapter converts it into tape music...if it's not getting converted, it won't work

 

[Infos]

You also have the possibility of getting an add on for your CD player that
broadcasts to an unused frequency on your fm tuner
I believe the specs for a tuner are better than a cassette player
I got a Recotron one for like $20

 

[ISAslot]

<< I don't think it would because normally the adapter converts it into tape music...if it's not getting converted, it won't work >>



Well, it appears that the adaptor just has a few resistors to modify the input line to the head of the adaptor.

The reason why I think it may be possible, is because the adaptor internals modify the signal for the adaptor head. Then the head in the tape deck picks up the output of the adaptor head. So the wires that go from the head in the tape deck, go to the tape deck board assuming that it is a signal from a head. Well if the adaptor is already processing the signal for a head, couldn't I just connect the the wires in the adaptor to the wires of the head in the tape deck?