I can get SONY MP3 Hu for really cheap price, around 200 from this guy. what you guys think of it? the model # is MP450X. please let me know what u guys think...

 

 

buy a rio

no reason to buy any cd-r unit when you can get a rio so focking cheap right now

 

i think the cd-r mp3 players are better....... 15 cents for 700 megs worth of music....it has my vote....as for the head unit....... i think its a pretty good reciever......although the price your gettin is only like 30 dollars less than what u can get it for other places (shopping.yahoo.com)......but hey....as long as u save go for it

 

to be homnest i always tell people to stay away from Sony all together. But if your looking for the MP3 capability with a normal stero setup i guess it will be fine, just as long as you dont go out and try competing with your system, cause then id tell you absolutly NOT!

Ant

 

This head unit is going into my cousins Camry and he is not into cars. He just wants head unit with mp3 capabilities so i guess this will do just fine and also he is changing all his factory speakers with pioneer 6 1/2 in front and 6x9's in back. we'll c how it turns out.

 

yes but you still have to deal with media. with the Rio you don't. And have you ever built a bunch of playlists on a cd-r player? from a couple dozen different Cd-r's? neh, dint think so

 

download.....download.....download =( ......cd-r....just toss it in and go..... you can burn mp3 cd's in 5 minutes.....its no big deal

 

cd-r =


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you guys suck! Quit being lady like(arguing with no point) and answer the question.

IMO - the Sony mp3 player is ok but lacks some of the feature of others that can be had at roughly same price(I got Aiwa cdc-mp32 for $256 with shipping) But if you like the Red Xplod look and the features are ok for your Cousin then get it.

Many people like the JVC unit and some like the RF or Kenwood unit. I have not heard much about pioneer or blaupunkt or any of the generic ones.

I like the advantage of having ALL my 3+ GB of mp3's at hand on CD's rather than having to remove the unit take it inside to my pc and wait for transfer to and from the unit. just my $.02

What I really want is an Terabit Wireless unit with a 30GB -80GB internal IBM microdrive so i can have all the music i could ever want and no delays in transfers. But until someone starts selling that unit @ $200. i am happy with the Aiwa and its pretty light show!

:P

 

THANK YOU!

 

Well most of the mp3 HU's out there aren't "complete" in terms of features (I think except the JVC one). The JVC was my top choice, but Best Buy didn't carry it (I'm an employee, so I get very good prices on store goods).
The Sony one looks bad and is horrible in terms of displaying mp3 data (no ID3 tag, the best it can do is like 16 or 24 characters of the actual file name). The Aiwa CDC-MP3 lacks resume on mp3's and no electronic shock protection. The Rockford 9000 one is very selective on the types of disks it plays and how you record it, doesn't support ID3 tags, and doesn't have a remote controller.
I ended up taking the Aiwa because I could live with it's features, what it lacked, and I liked it the most cause the blue-lit faceplate work well at night in a black Max. (Almost all my passengers agreed) The shock protection isn't that bad, considering I live in the potholed streets of NYC (it uses some kind of springs/internal shock absorbers to prevent skipping and does pretty well). I paid a total of $190 installed and with a 4-yr service plan that basically lets me abuse the thing..... Can't really complain here..

One other thing, the Rio In car thing doesn't play regular CD's does it? Not all my friends exactly have a collection of mp3 CD's and sometimes it's nice to listen to others' tunes (even though the car is mine...). just my little input here.

 

They fixed the skipping problem with cdc-mp32 as well as the resume problem. Too bad they dont have random accross the disk thats my only complaint.

Maybe i will have more once I can hear it!
But until i can afford the new component speakers...


BG

 

IMO, the Sony's have a very "dirty" sound compared to the other HUs on the market. The internal amp just isn't very clean. If you want clean, crisp sound I would go with another brand. Just my .02