Alpine CDA-9883 CD Player - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Here's a great explanation of the mx feature from a review of the alpine decks... "Media Xpander (MX) is a great feature. If you listen to lots of MP3s, you know the quality on some can leave a bit to be desired. Media Xpander helps compensate by adding bass and tone to your files. And you can control the level of ‘help’ you want (from 1-3, mine sits at 2 except for the worst discs). Even my worst bootlegs come out sounding pretty decent – and you can use it on both CDs and FM radio." hope that helps you put it to good use!

are you using an amplifer? if so, it sounds like you are using the blue wire instead of the blue/white wire to turn the amp on. the blue is antenna remote and turns of when it is not in tuner mode. the blue/white is amplifier remote.

try to unplug it and let it sit for a minute then plug it back in and see if it sets itself.

make sure your cd player is clean.

I bet the channels are burn up. Try hooking it up thru the amp. (using the rca's)

Get one of these: http://www.crutchfield.com/p_500CDA9883/Alpine-CDA-9883.html?tp=5684&tab=other_items#iPod Adapters

you might want to check all the fuses in the vehicle. i can't remember off the top of my head if there is a fuse in the back of the radio or not. you might want to check there too just in case.

Its basically for your other devices like Ipod or Mp3 etc. that's the input source for those devices, it is more on the audios. I hope it could help.

Do you know how the radio was installed?

Did they integrate the factory amplifier... or bypass it?

ai net is simply alpine's upper level line of decks. they have their regular line and ai net line. just like kenwood has their normal line and their upper level excelon line. ai net uses different cables to connect with changers and aux items than the regular line.

The screen stays white but there is a way to change button color blue/red can't remember exactly I think it is in the func/setup button

Check for blown fuses behind the deck and under the hood, sometimes by the battery, you may get lucky but you could have smoked the unit, and would not know anything unless you send it in to get fixed. Replacing the unit could be the answer Alpine CDA-9883 CD Player

Check for a fuse in the back of the radio, and the one in the fuse panel

it tells you on the cd player,the red wire goes to the +12 volt switched,and the yellow one to the +12 volt constant wire,the black wire to ground ;)

your ipod might be too new,and your cd player too old the alpine cda 9883 is a 2007 model what kind of ipod do you have,if uyou have an older ipod and got the new itunes9 then try downloading an older version of itunes from itunes.com .....good luck

try detaching the "face" and there should be a little button that you can only push in with some kid of really thin stick,maybe a pin that will reset the cd player and hopefully work

push the func/setup button located on the left side of the 1 button and on the right side of the next button

im having this problem too,do you have one of the new ipods,i believe the alpine cda9883 is 2007 model,so i think the reason the ipod wont work is that its too new and the alpine dont recognize it,maybe you can try getting an older version of itunes not the new itunes9

check the fuse it may have blown. replace it if it is

whay type of vehicle are you putting the cd deck in ? if it has a factory amp , it may have one amp per speaker , get the specs on the new vehicle to find out . using a "free harness" is always a good idea as well , it plugs directly into youre vehicles factory radio harness and has labeled wires coming off the end so u know whats what there .