Hi all,
Not sure if my Bose amp is on its way out and would welcome anyone thoughts, i usually just use the AUX port when i am driving to play soptify and have noted of late that it just stops playing every now and again but if I take the plug out of the phone and connect it again it sometimes comes back on, I also have some crackling in between tracks. I would normally suspect the amp straight away but the only thing that is doubting me is if I switch to “FM” it works perfect so was wondering if it could be the AUX socket.
Any thoughts anyone ?..Ive tried moving the cable at the car end but makes no difference. I do suspect the AMP but why would the radio work ok ?
If the radio works (& the CD player?) then I’d suspect a fault with the AUX input (or the lead) rather than the amp; I believe that, when the amp fails, that affects sound from all inputs not just the AUX socket?
Won’t be the amp if it is OK on other sources. Socket or lead most likely culprit.
One other possibility, do you have to turn the volume up high on the head unit? Could be that your phone output volume is too low. Try winding the car volume down and the phone volume up. Sometimes units are designed to mute if there is no signal. Maybe it can’t recognise low levels and mutes the sound.
Can you plug your lead into another piece of equipment and check the lead first?
Alternatively can you borrow another lead and try that?
If the lead is OK then it looks like the socket itself is intermittent.
Hope that helps
Peter
Thanks all
Have put a new lead in so will try that…thinking about it now i recently had a new iphone 7 which has no 3.5mm jack lead so had to order a a splitter cable as below. Ill see how it goes
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lightning-to-USB-Cable-3-5mm-Jack-Car-AUX-Audio-Adapter-Cord-For-iPhone-7-8-Xs/123733856885?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649