I bought the Kenwood KDC-MP919 from a local stereo shop about 2 weeks ago. I thought that I was going to be unhappy at first, but the MP3 player is quite nice. It has a brushed aluminum face with MASK capabilities. Overall, it is great with MP3s. It takes about 4 seconds for it to scan and catalog the disks when you put them in, but once you do that, it's good to go. There is only a 1 sec pause when switching folders. You can fast forward through tracks and it will also read ID3 tags. It has great EQ capabilities although mostr people with external amps will find these features useless. It has a 2 line display. You can set the top line to display the folder names and the bottom line to display song and artist information. Anyway, just thought I would let you guys know a bit about this HU. I would highly recommend it.

C.D.

 

do you hear music when you fast forward? none of the units before this years models have done it. (ive tried lots, alpine 7878, my z828, jvc sh99, kdc 8017, aiwa.. etc)

 

Yeah, you can hear music, and it gives you a track play timer, but the music is real low. It also FFWs relatively fast. Most MP3 players that would let you FFW that I've seen were SLOW. This one really isn't that bad.

C.D.

 

Well, i guess thats better than nothing. How fast is the loadtime between tracks? The older ones are about .5-1s .. cept the sony & alpine 7878 which were pretty quick.

 

Switching between tracks is pretty much instant.

 

Damn. Now I wanna upgrade again. I dont have to deal with the ugly Alpine to get faster play.

 

Alpine makes some quality HUs, but I have always thought they lacked in aesthetic appeal.