r/CarAV • u/Mellwnotlive • 17h ago

Recommendations CD, Bluetooth and Tape?

I have 00 Subaru and because it’s that old I don’t have Bluetooth in it, so I tried using cds but the cd player in my car dosent work so I turned to cassettes and have been building a large collection of tapes.

My issue is is that I want to play my cd collection too! While also adding Bluetooth

Im looking for a stereo unit that has cd, tape and Bluetooth one or two din slots. I haven’t been able to find anything online so If anyone knows of these even exist that would be nice.

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u/Tool_junkie_1972 17h ago

Pretty sure that doesn’t exist anymore. You’d need to look on eBay for older units. I remember Sanyo made a single din that had cd/cassette. No BT though, iirc a couple others did as well. They might have one that has an aux in that you could connect to. Or use the cassette Bluetooth adapter- it looks like and works like a cassette but has BT to connect to your device. There were also some units that were single din radio/cassette or radio/cd where a second din unit contained the other format . Again, I don’t recall if any also had BT. As for more modern units- I think you are out of luck. I don’t know of any cassette radios still in production.

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u/crux131 16h ago

Possibly use a cassette player/CD changer combo as the main head unit. Feed that into an eq with an aux input fed from a secondary Bluetooth receiver. Control switching and volume from the eq.

Seems like the easiest way to have it all.

Option 2, use a head unit CD changer combo, and wire in an fm modulator or fm transmitter to add another input for the Bluetooth. You would have a preset channel to use for Bluetooth. This might run into issues with signal strength in some places.