Does anyone know ONE CD player with a blue tooth or iphone connector and a LED screen that can replace the factory cassette player AND utilize the 6 disc CD changer under the seat ?

Very important: I WANT TO KEEP UTILIZING THE 6 DISK CD CHANGER UNDER THE SEAT.

I have TONS of CD's going back years. Maybe 2000 CD's. Not gonna throw them out. I have to have a CD player that utilizes the 6 disc under the seat. It was a very good add on for this rover when they offered it.

 

Why limit yourself?



Rip all your C d's on your desktop as MP3 is put them on your phone and use a cassette adapter into your headphone Jack of your phone and play as much music as you want.

 

Rip the CD's and install a GROM. You'll have your entire collection with you wherever you go.

https://gromaudio.com/store/usb_adap...interface.html

 

I very much doubt that you're going to find anything other than a modified OEM head unit that will still allow you to use the CD changer, since all the interfaces I have seen use the CD input for line-level signals. There's a company that adds an aux socket to the original head which is probably your only option unless you switch to a new head unit that includes a CD slot.
I have probably three times your CD collection. All are ripped to two networked storage drives in my basement -- one in a lossless archive format, and one in mp3 for usability. There's no need to throw anything away. If you switch your head unit for something that accepts USB connections and fill a flash drive with thousands of tracks, you've mostly replaced the need for a CD player entirely.

 

You're not going to find an aftermarket head unit that will work with the underseat CD changer. Personally, I disconnected the changer and added a GROM bluetooth module, so I have the stock head unit with bluetooth built-in - it works with the steering wheel controls and allows me to listen to my music from my phone - it even dips the volume to announce GPS navigation.

What you COULD do is look into buying a double-din aftermarket head unit that has a built in 6 disk changer in the dash. It will likely also have bluetooth, but you will need to modify the dash to allow it to fit a double-din unit, which is larger than stock. I wouldn't recommend hacking apart the dash, but it's possible and others have fitted double-din units. Either way - this is probably your best shot of having (a) a six disk changer and (b) bluetooth/iphone hookup. These might be tough to find - I'm not sure they even make these anymore, and you'll probably need to buy some special adapters/harnesses to ensure it can hook up to the Disco speakers.

Using CDs is objectively not worth it - 6 disk changer was a good feature in 1999 when the Disco came out, but there's truly no advantage to that over using a phone with Bluetooth.

 

I don't know that you can completely dismiss CDs as useful. I have a huge library of audio books that I would have to plan ahead to convert to a different format if I wanted to listen to them on a long trip, for example, instead of just being able to pick them up and go. I have never seen a DIN+ unit with a disc changer, but there are several with disc slots which may be better for the OP than having no disc player at all.

It may not be necessary to go to a double-DIN unit, given the complexity and expense of trying to modify the dash to fit one into the 1.5-DIN Rover dash space. There are single-DIN units with removable screens that can be height-adjusted so that they fit the Rover space properly. However, they won't have disc slots.
There are also single-DIN units that will fit the space in the dash, and include a slot along -- with the newer types of connectivity. But you're not likely to get a touch-screen unit in that configuration.

Given the age of these vehicles, your choices are pretty limited and you may have to adjust your expectations (or your budget).

 

Nakamichi used to make a single din in dash 6 disc cd changer - I had one but that was like 20 years ago now.

Why not just replace the LR changer with one that will actually work with a new head unit?