Sparkly - check your aux setting.  I plugged my ipod into my wife's Golf, after a trouble free time in the Monte. (iPod via MDI).  the Golf was hissing and crackling.

 

I checked it all and found the aux setting on 3 (some sort of "boost" for the sound coming out) and the hiss was being amplified.

 

I set it to 1, turned the ipod volume down and then turned the stereo volume up.

 

On the wife's Golf, the volume level is about halfway across the scale (fancy touchscreen headunit) to give "normal" volume - whereas for radio/CDs, it is much less.

 

In the Monte, on MDI, I have it turned up to 11 or 12 (normal volume is 8).

Thanks, will give that a try over lunch and report back.

I find sound quality over MDI (using ipod or USB drive) or over aux input to be fine.

 

MDI is problematic though, it often drops the connection, doesn't recognise the ipod is connected, 'phases' the sound between channels randomly, and weirdly won't play or recognise more than the first 4 or 5 songs of each album on my ipod nano. Very frustrating! I'm pleased that my new bluetooth set works so well, as that will now be the way i play my music in the car! 

Does anyone else have this issue with the MDI?

When I switch the input to MDI it automatically starts at the first track on my iPod nano. Even if I have been listening to it and then got out the car got back in and it will restart at the first song again. Have I missed a setting? I have got the Amundsen+ unit in my 2013 Monte.

Thanks

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My sound quality over MDI is still utter pump!!!

 

I couldn't find any aux volume settings on my stock mk2 stereo but i did tinker with the volume coming out of my iPod.  Loud is currently off and all the tones are set to zero/neutral.  Anything with strong treble or bass distorts quite badly.

 

Harrumph.

Sparkly - So, in the Monte, with a Swing head unit, the audio settings are accessed by pressing the right hand tuning button (the circular one that isn't the power button.

 

This opens the settings menu, which includes things like setting the on volume, the aux settings, RDS settings etc.

 

Jonro - my ipod restarts from track one, whenever the MDI intialises.  I then stick it on "mix" and flick through tracks (if not listening to a playlist). But it is frustrating.

 

I find that if I listen for a long time (over an hour) on a single intialisation, it will unsync track titles to the song that is playing.  A few tracks cause the ipod to unsync from MDI (try fiddling around in the MDI shelf for your ipod...ACTUALLY DON'T!!! Pull over first!).

 

I seem to remember there being a setting on the ipod that means you have to sync it through iTunes to get the right file types on it.  I have some mp3 files on it that don't play properly. You can also do a thing on iTunes to "balance" all of your MP4 files on the iPod to align the levels etc.