Adding A2DP Bluetooth to HU-801
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Adding A2DP Bluetooth to HU-801
Greetings, all.
My sweetheart has a 2003 S80 with the HU-801 CD player. I would love to add A2DP streaming Bluetooth functionality for her so she can listen to her Spotify and what-not from her phone in the car without stringing wires all over the cabin. We don't need phone capability--just streaming audio.
What is the feasibility of the following three options:
So how 'bout it? How have you connected a Bluetooth transceiver to your S80?
Thanks in advance,
Gregory
My sweetheart has a 2003 S80 with the HU-801 CD player. I would love to add A2DP streaming Bluetooth functionality for her so she can listen to her Spotify and what-not from her phone in the car without stringing wires all over the cabin. We don't need phone capability--just streaming audio.
What is the feasibility of the following three options:
- Add a purpose-built aftermarket Bluetooth transceiver module to the CD changer port; I've seen a few on eBay, but am dubious as to their quality.
- Add an aftermarket auxiliary 3.5mm input via the CD changer port.
- A more circuitous route: replace the factory HU-801 head unit with a cassette-equipped HU-611; that way, I can at least use the cassette deck as an ersatz input for an aftermarket 3.5mm Bluetooth transceiver--I've had to do that on other cassette-equipped vehicles with no auxiliary input, though it's decidedly my least-favorite option of the three because more than a little fidelity is lost in the translation.
So how 'bout it? How have you connected a Bluetooth transceiver to your S80?
Thanks in advance,
Gregory
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