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I want to be able to listen to my iPod in my car. I have no cassette, so I've been using one of those FM modulators. The fidelity is OK, but I live in a crowded area, so there really aren't any totally unused bands. This means that as I drive around, I'm constantly switching bands to avoid interference, which gets old pretty quickly. Anyway, I'm trying to decide between just getting a new stereo with a front auxilliary plug, and still using the iPod to control the music, or getting a stereo with built-in iPod support. This sounds attractive, but I have about 8000 songs, so I only want to do it if the control interface is VERY good, ie fast and easy navigation by artist, title, album, or playlist. Does anyone have any recommendations (or anti-recommendations)? In particular, the only one that I've found that seems to get universally rave reviews is the Alpine KCE-422i that works with most (all?) of their new decks. I'd appreciate any input. -jc |
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I just bought a clarion dxz765mp and i just use the aux input from the rear
and plug it into the ipod and use the ipod as my changer. Now you can buy the ipod connector for it and control it from the actual HU itself but i'm poor and couldn't afford it. I like it. Really it's your own personal preference but i hope this helps. -- 2 10" mtx thunder 8000 rockford amp 501bd clarion dxz765mp "jc" wrote in message oups.com... I want to be able to listen to my iPod in my car. I have no cassette, so I've been using one of those FM modulators. The fidelity is OK, but I live in a crowded area, so there really aren't any totally unused bands. This means that as I drive around, I'm constantly switching bands to avoid interference, which gets old pretty quickly. Anyway, I'm trying to decide between just getting a new stereo with a front auxilliary plug, and still using the iPod to control the music, or getting a stereo with built-in iPod support. This sounds attractive, but I have about 8000 songs, so I only want to do it if the control interface is VERY good, ie fast and easy navigation by artist, title, album, or playlist. Does anyone have any recommendations (or anti-recommendations)? In particular, the only one that I've found that seems to get universally rave reviews is the Alpine KCE-422i that works with most (all?) of their new decks. I'd appreciate any input. -jc |
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I bought an AIWA cdc-x204 last year with a front aux input and it was
great(esp for $79.00)... until it got stolen... so now i'm looking for a new head unit with a front aux... Before that I had a really expensive kenwood head unit. It had a fold down face to put in cds... but the wires broke... so I had something nice to compare the AIWA to... If you can find a new AIWA I would get it... Some comparables out there that i've read good reviews on a JVC: KD-g420 http://www.crutchfield.com/S-hYnSajZ...00&I=257KDG420 JVC: KD-g510 http://www.dealtime.com/xPR-KD_G510 Sony: CDX-GT400 http://www.crutchfield.com/S-hYnSajZ...300&I=158GT400 I'm interested in those three b/c they have a sub output... other ones in the KD and CDX lines have aux inputs on the front. dubbin it up wrote: I just bought a clarion dxz765mp and i just use the aux input from the rear and plug it into the ipod and use the ipod as my changer. Now you can buy the ipod connector for it and control it from the actual HU itself but i'm poor and couldn't afford it. I like it. Really it's your own personal preference but i hope this helps. -- 2 10" mtx thunder 8000 rockford amp 501bd clarion dxz765mp "jc" wrote in message oups.com... I want to be able to listen to my iPod in my car. I have no cassette, so I've been using one of those FM modulators. The fidelity is OK, but I live in a crowded area, so there really aren't any totally unused bands. This means that as I drive around, I'm constantly switching bands to avoid interference, which gets old pretty quickly. Anyway, I'm trying to decide between just getting a new stereo with a front auxilliary plug, and still using the iPod to control the music, or getting a stereo with built-in iPod support. This sounds attractive, but I have about 8000 songs, so I only want to do it if the control interface is VERY good, ie fast and easy navigation by artist, title, album, or playlist. Does anyone have any recommendations (or anti-recommendations)? In particular, the only one that I've found that seems to get universally rave reviews is the Alpine KCE-422i that works with most (all?) of their new decks. I'd appreciate any input. -jc |
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jc wrote: Anyway, I'm trying to decide between just getting a new stereo with a front auxilliary plug, and still using the iPod to control the music, or getting a stereo with built-in iPod support. This sounds attractive, but I have about Eclipse has an inferface unit for their decks that connects the iPod's dock connection..... Alan |
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Thanks for the feedback. For the record, googling around convinced me that Alpine had the best iPod interface, so I finally managed to try one. The snob appeal stereo store couldn't be bothered to connect the iPod cable, so I had to go to Best Buy to actually test one. It was *almost* there. The menus were very intuitive and operated pretty much like the iPod. It had two problems: - even though it is reportedly the fastest interface out there, it was still pretty slow to scroll through all the artists on my iPod, and searching by song would have been out of the question. The frustrating thing was that simple firmware fix that made the scroll speed nonlinear like the iPod would have taken care of this. Maybe next year... - Except on the high end decks, you only get one line at a time as you scroll. This means you'll often overshoot things and have to backtrack. Bottom line. IMHO, unless you have a small collection and/or restrict yourself to playlists, iPod interfaces aren't quite there yet. I'll go for a unit with an aux input. -jc |
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