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I have the Premium JBL system, all stock. I bought the car used, but never noticed this problem until recently. A crackling or scratching noise happens randomly and I lose sound for a split second. It isn't just when I hit bumps in the road, it often does it when I am completely stopped and just idling.

After further inspection, this only happens with the CD player, the FM tuner works fine, no interruptions for any length of time. I originally thought it was a loose wire somewhere but since it only occurs with the CD player, I can pretty much rule that out.

So what do you think? Bad H/U or laser? Yes, I have tried cleaning the laser lens several times. Would my problems be alleviated with a new H/U?

I had the stock HU and it was skipping also, a lot when it was rainning (moisture in the air I guess). Mine was not a JBL. I bought a new radio, sound 10x better, play mp3,dvd, 2 inputs,etc..

My double din JBL did the same so i just said screw it and bought a single din with USB input on the front and a double to single din conversion kit with wiring harness from bestbuy the sound it better and I have a new storage place. A bonus was the stock mounting hardware bolted directly to the conversion kit.

Good excuse to buy a new head unit, because the amount it'll cost to fix your OEM radio is about the same price as getting an entry-level CD player... That's what I did.

Glad to see I'm not the only one. It has been driving me nuts. But yeah, I'm going to definitely replace it with either a Pioneer or Alpine, should sound amazing with the JBL speakers

[on a side note, my zoomer exhaust I bought from lemmez should be here fri or mon! excited!]

xan16 wrote:Glad to see I'm not the only one. It has been driving me nuts. But yeah, I'm going to definitely replace it with either a Pioneer or Alpine, should sound amazing with the JBL speakers

[on a side note, my zoomer exhaust I bought from lemmez should be here fri or mon! excited!]

I have this kenwood mp435u nothing too crazy but it has great sound and it takes a USB flash drive or ipod in the front. I personally just use a 4 gig USB flash drive.

can you hook an aftermarket hu directly the jbl system? isnt the amp separate? may want to look into that, i know there are tons of threads on it

hari-bhari wrote:can you hook an aftermarket hu directly the jbl system? isnt the amp separate? may want to look into that, i know there are tons of threads on it

Personally I just bypassed the JBL amp and used the new amp in my hu to drive the speakers.