Testing out the Visteon CD-6 car radio with the wiring harness connected. It has C-Quam AM Stereo, RDS, a built-in 6-disc CD changer, and a digital signal pr…
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  1. Rocking Dustpan
    Rocking Dustpan says:

    It has nothing to do with copyright. He’s not demonstrating music, just the
    radio. It happens to be that to properly demonstrate the radio AM Stereo
    capabilities, you need music. 🙂

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  2. vwestlife
    vwestlife says:

    This video was recorded a few months ago, but I just heard them play “Brown
    Eyed Girl” again today. Compared to when the Breeze first “tweaked” their
    format a year ago, they have added a lot of older music back to the
    playlist. Magic and Lite have also started playing ’70s music again. I
    guess they all realized that they were losing listeners to CBS-FM, so maybe
    it wasn’t such a good idea for them to suddenly stop playing anything
    pre-’80s.

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  3. Rocking Dustpan
    Rocking Dustpan says:

    I’ve not listened to them since the format tweak. I would imagine they
    aren’t going back to playing more obscure gold AC like they did before the
    change and stick with old favorites that people will listen to over and
    over again. I suppose the former classic hits slanted AC isn’t coming back
    either. 🙁

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  4. vwestlife
    vwestlife says:

    Yes, I used a 12-volt sealed lead acid battery. Car radios always seem to
    pick up some RF noise on AM from power supplies, no matter how
    well-filtered and shielded the supply is, so a battery is the only way to
    get totally clean reception. Just be sure to add a fuse if the radio
    doesn’t have one — these gel-cell batteries can deliver enough current to
    quickly melt solder and burn wires if they get short-circuited!

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  5. SpeakerFreak95
    SpeakerFreak95 says:

    could you give me the pin outs for tue speakers? it would help me out a
    bunch. I simply do not have money for a reverse harness like yours, so I
    just want to solder, or “hard wire” my unit, which is very similar, with
    the same connector as yours, and it too has RDS.

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  6. vwestlife
    vwestlife says:

    Nearly all of WCTC’s IDs, station promos, and commercials are in stereo,
    although in this case you really can’t hear the separation from the
    camera’s microphone.

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  7. uxwbill
    uxwbill says:

    That is truly the most interesting representation of an ampersand I have
    ever seen from a fourteen/sixteen segment display! I’ll give the
    programmers credit for trying. It’s a pity that the dirt-common and
    oh-so-basic CD/AM/FM radio doesn’t do any of this neat stuff despite using
    a nearly identical display. (The tape deck or tape/CD model also supports
    RDS and DSP effects so far as I know, which makes me wonder if it also
    supports C-QuAM as the CD6 does.)

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  8. wilkes85
    wilkes85 says:

    Are you still planning on installing it in your Mazda? That reverb thing is
    pretty cool. I’ve seen this on a lot of newer stereo equipment. Sometimes
    it’s not clear what setting is normal though!

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  9. Nathaniel Newman
    Nathaniel Newman says:

    I love the PTY feature on RDS> I wish my Pioneer DEH4400HD offered full
    RDS. It does have standard PS but not RT. It also has HD Radio. Am isn’t in
    Stereo however unless it’s an iBiquity HD Station.

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  10. bratina501
    bratina501 says:

    I would think AM only to show off the capabilities since this radio does
    have AM stereo which is unique for just about any radio.

    Reply

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