flash drive head unit?

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Topic: flash drive head unit?

Posted By: captainoldtimes
Subject: flash drive head unit?
Date Posted: April 24, 2006 at 11:24 AM

Does anyone offer a quailty head unit with flash drive input? CD's are so old school.;)

If not does anyone know of plans to release one?

Im tired of scratching and skipping.

Also, can music be stored in mp3 format with the same hi-fidelity as cd?

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It used to be...
Sure do like these modern conveniences.

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Posted By: Aruman
Date Posted: April 24, 2006 at 12:29 PM

some JVC head unit have that option, and mp3 files have not the hi-fidelity as Cd's and i don't know if they already so far that they can make mp3 files hi-fidelity as Cd's.

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Posted By: coppellstereo
Date Posted: April 24, 2006 at 7:51 PM

check out kenwood's new excelon line!

USB port right on the front!

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Posted By: captainoldtimes
Date Posted: April 25, 2006 at 11:04 AM

I was hoping for alpine, eclipse or at least sony or panasonic... but I have been out of the business for awhile. Does kenwood make good equipment these days?

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It used to be...
Sure do like these modern conveniences.

Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: April 25, 2006 at 12:39 PM

Sony is very bottom end my friend. The JVC and Kenwood decks are far better than the Sony stuff. I would say that between the 2 the Alpine is a better head unit. If you wanna use memory cards you can go with an Eclipse 7000 as they have a memory stick drive built in. Uses Sony Memory.

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Posted By: captainoldtimes
Date Posted: April 25, 2006 at 3:39 PM

Yeah I've never been a sony guy unless your talking about tv's, but when I left the business (1998) Sony was showing some improvements with thier high end stuff, Eclipse wouldnt make a removeable face plate and Alpine was teatering on going bling. I figured anything was possible. If you ask me, I still want to pull my radio out of the dash and take it with me. In Oakland they'll steal anything.

I'll check into the Eclipse thanks.

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It used to be...
Sure do like these modern conveniences.

Posted By: coppellstereo
Date Posted: April 25, 2006 at 6:54 PM

Read about the new kenwood excelon series, you might be impressed.

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Posted By: Ravendarat
Date Posted: April 25, 2006 at 8:42 PM

The eclipse 7000 is detachable face

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