by James H Johnson
The latest trend in the car stereo world is to be able to hook up your car's stereo system to the Apple iPod. The iPod can store thousands of songs on one single device making CDs nearly obsolete. If you want to make your car stereo system the talk of the town, then including the ability to attach your iPod is absolutely essential.
An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
The best way to be able to hook up your iPod is to go out and buy yourself a brand new head unit that includes a USB port. All top end head pieces now come with a USB port standard so as long as you are not buying your head piece direct from China then you should be just fine.
If you do not want to go out and buy a new head piece, there is a way to wire your stereo system to make this work. Just remember that you are going to have to do a bit of wiring yourself here so be incredibly careful. It is highly recommended that you have some electrical training before attempting this. At a minimum you should read an electrical do it yourself book before attempting this. Most new head pieces include a line level jack behind the head piece itself. In some cases this might even look like your standard head phone jack. If your head piece is equipped with one of these line level jacks, then just pick the song you want to play on your iPod and plug it into the line level jack. In some cases, you may need to go out and buy a special cord to do this.
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. There beneath you is the monster, stretching acre upon acre into the far distance. High over head hangs the stagnant pall of its fetid breath, reddened with light from myriad eyes endlessly, everywhere blinking. Thousands of acres of cellular tissue, the city’s flesh outspreads layer upon layer, enmeshed by an intricate network of veins and arteries radiating into the gloom, and in them, with muffled, persistent roar, circulating as the blood circulates in your veins, is the almost ceaseless beat of the activity to whose necessities it all conforms. The poisonous waste is drawn from the system of this gigantic creature by infinitely ramifying, thread-like ducts, gathering at their sensitive terminals matter destructive of its life, hurrying it to millions of small intestines to be collected in turn by larger, flowing to the great sewers, on to the drainage canal, and finally to the ocean.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)
The nice thing about the evolving technology is that you are constantly gaining the ability to integrate more devices and systems together. The good news is that iPods and stereo systems are fairly easily integrated as long as you have a modern stereo system. As iPods continue to improve, watch for even more system integration capabilities. You might also be interested in frigidaire dehumidifiers and the dehumidifier review.