I want to get a Kenwood TV that plays CD's/DVD's/MP3's but want to also keep my bose cd changer. Can you keep both and have them both play audio though aftermarket speakers still? I was told by a shop you could not but have seen people do it on this forum.

 

I can help you but I need better information.

I didn't know Kenwood made televisons ... possibly you mean a multimedia in dash head end unit?

Do you have a model number possibly?

The 6-CD Bose CD changer I have is an in-the-dash unit which fills both the DIN mounting areas leaving no where to mount anything else without giving something up like airbags or the air conditioning controls.

So where would you mount this second Kenwood head-end unit?

If you have a remote mounted CD player there is a pretty good possibility that you could use the line level output of it to connect to the Kenwood "television" head end unit that you have. If an adapter isn't made it wouldn't be much science to work out the voltage input and signal outputs. The difficult thing would be controlling the darn thing - getting it to change between disks and songs without the proper head end.

Most remote mounted CD players have a control cable that matches both the pin-out and the control protocol for that same manufacture's head end unit. Pioneer to Pioneer, Kenwood to Kenwood, and Alpine to Alpine. Getting a Pioneer remote mounted CD to talk with an Alpine is something that wouldn't be worth the hours of research and programming a custom interface to connect the two together as you can get the matching CD player for $130-$200 typically.

 

What i did was i got the Soundstream DVD Touchscreen and FM modulated the sound through the Bose HU. FM modulation sounds way better than it used to so the degradation in quality isn't that bad.