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jonbth

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Posted: July 02, 2004 at 10:31 AM / IP Logged

Does anyone own a Panasonic head unit or had any experience with that brand, good or bad.

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Bad here. Sent two back a few years ago until I changed to a clarion. The clarion then worked for years. I personally wouldn't order one unless I knew the dealer would take it back!

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Have sold Panasonic cd players for over 12 years and they have been a great cd player. Do they fail more or less than any other brand, no they do not.

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Posted: July 02, 2004 at 3:20 PM / IP Logged

the make a fairly good product.... they had some bugs with the product about 5 years ago but seemed to correct those problems in the following years models ( funny how that works ).... as a consumer it would be a brand i'd certainly be willing to take a look at and a listen to....

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Hmm.. guess that explains my problems I had w/ panasonic around 5-6 years ago.

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Kevin, you referring to the bulb issue on the CQDF100's by chance?

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I had a CQDP103 in my old cargo van for a while and loved it. The only reason I don't have it anymore is because it was stolen out of the van.

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Posted: July 02, 2004 at 4:13 PM / IP Logged

nope although i certainly saw lots of them.... i was referring to the "discs dont play once the unit heated up" problem...they left a AVR regulator standing on the motherboard by itself and it overheated and went out of tolerence...the following year they piggy backed that V reg onto the O/P stage heatsink and the problem was solved... although it annoyed the heck out of all the people who bought the earlier model... and they never came out with a counter measure for these customers at all... i used to buy a heatsink kit from ECG and heatsink all of these myself to make sure they didnt come back a second time.....

we see very few problems with the current line up....

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Posted: July 02, 2004 at 5:31 PM / IP Logged

I had one bout 6 months ago and had it for like 10 months w/o any problems, it beat the hell out of the old sony I had before that BLAH! SONY!! BLAH!!! Panasonic makes a sound product, its not the best but it sure isn't the worst.

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Posted: July 02, 2004 at 6:13 PM / IP Logged

i have been dealing them for about a year now and have no complaints so far

double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer

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