best hard drive headunit

[182_blue]

anyone know of a good mp3 hard drive headunit ??

 

[Monkey636]

Clarion with their MusicCatcher technology.

 

[182_blue]

is clarion any good

 

[182_blue]

anyone ?

 

[Dink]

http://www.cel-direct.com/detail.asp?ProductID=2123this maybe

 

[Bryan]

as dink says, it gets my vote, the 900hdd is an excellent unit, well worth the money

only problem is the way it records the music, its slightly slwer than it could have been

 

[Rick]

I really fancy a hard drive unit for my next stereo. Getting fed up with having to make up MP3 CDs all the time I get a new album.

How do you transfer to these devices? Can you just pull the HD out of the unit and connect it to your PC via a USB cable or something?

 

[182_blue]

looks good folks, anyone tried it

 

[Lee]

I was thinking about something like this seeing as I cant fit the old autochanger under the seat anymore.

 

[Bryan]

the pioneer unit records off the cd that is being played in the unit

others can connect to a pc

 

[Dink]

i think an mp3 DVD would be good enough for most people as you can get a fair bit more on them.

im liking the look of the new alpine one

http://www.cel-direct.com/detail.asp?ProductID=3917here

 

[sn00p]

http://www.empegbbs.comwww.empegbbs.com The Empeg/Rio Car is still the best by far. Its not made anymore though, you can probably pick up a second hand one for about £300 - but it requires an external amp. Another ~£150 for a tuner module (if you can get one). With the tuner module you can use a sony stalk lead to remote control it via the stock steering wheel controls.

SQ is absolutely amazing, features are second to none. Runs linux (boots to playback in a couple of seconds), space internally for 2 laptop drives.

Downside, not faceplate removable - have to pull whole headunit out.

Its a little old now so its only got USB 1.1 and 10Mbit ethernet so might take a little while to upload a music collection initially, nothings come along to touch it though.

 

[coolspot007007]

Not a head unit and people may not like kenwood for sound quality but the 10 gig music keg I have for mine was a great investment IMO. I can now carry all my music and got it quite cheap on eBay. Ive seen them for under £200 now its discontinued.

 

[trailerparktrev]

Why dont you just buy an iPod and an Icelink???

 

[zippyy]

Quote: Originally posted by trailerparktrev on 28 June 2005Why dont you just buy an iPod and an Icelink???

Thats what I was thinking

 

[sn00p]

Quote: Originally posted by zippyy on 28 June 2005
Quote: Originally posted by trailerparktrev on 28 June 2005Why dont you just buy an iPod and an Icelink???
Thats what I was thinking




If youve ever tried a decent hard-drive based head unit youll realise how much better they are than the currently available ipod solutions are.

Id like to move to a newer solution that didnt involve an external amp, but theres nothing on the market that comes near to my head unit.

I keep thinking about going the ipod route (Ive already got an ipod) but I know that (for me) itd be a big step backwards from my current setup.

 

[Dink]

Quote: Originally posted by sn00p on 28 June 2005
Id like to move to a newer solution that didnt involve an external amp, but theres nothing on the market that comes near to my head unit.



my hu runs my front comps just sweet now the are running two-way active

 

[sn00p]

Quote: Originally posted by Dink on 28 June 2005
my hu runs my front comps just sweet now the are running two-way active


My HU doesnt have an onboard amp though, so it absolutely requires an external amp. Ive got a genesis profile 4, but Im only using the front 2 speakers anyway.