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Audiovox Car CNPALP1 Alpine Adapter Cable for NP2000UC

With the Audiovox XM Direct 2 Alpine wiring harness you can receive XM satellite radio directly through any Alpine satellite radio-ready head unit in your car’s dash. This two-part system integrates seamlessly for easy installation and an uncluttered appearance. An XM subscription is required, and this cable is designed for use only with the Audiovox CNP2000UC XM Direct 2 Car Kit system (sold separately). The cable is guaranteed to be compatible with all satellite-ready Alpine head units. Audiovox offers a one-year warranty.

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Alpine CDA 9885 Radio CD MP3 player Full DIN in dash 50 Watts x 4

More media, more control. If one helping isn’t enough, you can get seconds, thirds, why stop there, when there’s so much media available today. The CDA-9885 offers media playback for CD’s iPod, Bluetooth, Satellite Radio, HD Radio, and other portable players. The CDA-9885 specially comes with an attractive Biolite display, so you get a wider viewing angle and better visibility in all lighting conditions. Get more control from your head unit, and hook up more media to your system. The remote control is included.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Good iPod Ready Head Unit
I bought this for my wife’s Honda CRV after the in-dash CD changer failed (as they all do, in my experience). She is very happy with it, especially its control of her iPod which is tucked away out of sight. I prefer Blaupunkt’s approach where one uses the familiar iPod touch screen to control that unit, but this one is nice. It will also accept satellite radio and bluetooth add-ons.

5 Stars Great sound, nice Ipod integration
I bought this as a replacement for my factory system which had finally given up the ghost, and because I wanted a decent front end for my Ipod. As a receiver and CD player the Alpine CDA-9885 does a fine job. Being able to play MP3’s from a CDR is also a nice feature, something that my factory stereo couldn’t do. I didn’t upgrade my speakers or add an amp, and I think that most experts would recommend this. But it still sounds better than what I had before.

I was impressed with the Ipod integration. The only limitation seems to be that you can only see a few lines at a time. Feature-wise, it’s got everything that you need, once you get used to the interface. The Direct Search allows you to jump through the long lists of Artists or whatever you’re searching by, so you can zip down to what you want quickly.

Overall, this is still better than fumbling with the actual Ipod while trying to drive. It’s a crystal clear audio connection, vs. what you’d get using an FM adaptor for the Ipod. And it charges the Ipod, as you’d expect.

An Ipod purist might want to spend an extra hundred or so and get the Alpine model that has a full Ipod screen on it. But for most of us, the CDA-9885 is a good way to go.

5 Stars BEWARE! No Factory Warranty On this Product!
Alpine DOES NOT sell through Amazon. I recommend you go to Alpine’s website (www.alpine-usa.com) and VERIFY the person selling is an authorized dealer. Be warned that unauthorized dealers DO NOT have a factory warranty. In many cases the serial numbers may be removed and/or altered (thus ownership of electronics with serial numbers removed/altered is in violation of most state laws). DO NOT BE SCAMMED.

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Alpine CDE 9874 In Dash Radio CD MP3 Player Black

Play CDs, iPods, and other portable media players! You?re looking at a full-featured deck, that?s easy and intuitive to use. This one-stop music player comes with a sleek LCD Display with fixed red and classic blue illumination. Alpine?s signature rotary knob makes controlling all your music a breeze. This unit also comes with a convenient Front Panel auxiliary input ? so you or your passenger can plug in your portable media player as an additional source

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Alpine radio CDE-9874
This is a great product at an extremely competative price. When you buy alpine you know that your getting the best in car-audio quality, and this satisfies that idea to every extent. Great deal, Great Product.

1 Star Dont buy
This product was a total disappointment. Sent it back. There was a problem with the RCA outputs. It caused a loud clunk sound in the subwoofers, when changing soure inputs. The seller stated Alpine never has a bad receiver. I am telling you, this one was! I bought a Kenwood afterwards, great sound, no problems.

4 Stars Great for the price; good iPod control
I replaced the factory stereo in a 2001 civic with this unit. I am very happy with my decision — made after hours of Internet research, store-room testing, etc. One thing I don’t like is that the word “Playlists” on the display shows up with a space so that it looks more like “Playlist 5.” Every time I scan for a playlist (or song, or artist), I keep thinking, what is playlist 5? What is song 5? Etc. But other than that, it’s a great stereo… and that’s something I can live with.

Pros: simple to use/learn, good ipod control, percentage search

Cons: textual display (see comment above), can’t quickly switch from a song that is playing to another song in the same playlist/album (you have to go through the whole menu system again)

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Alpine iDA X200 In Dash Radio MP3 Player Black

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User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars x200 sounds great, too bad it’s junk
Pros:

1. The x200 sounds great.

2. No CD. Why bother anymore, do people still use those disc things?

3. Big bright display easy to see in any light.

Cons:

1. Tiny display, only 11 chars across. Can’t see “Stairway to Heaven” on ONE LINE without scrolling? What is this 1999?

2. No playlists for usb thumbdrive. My Blaupunkt had playlists…

3. Controls make no sense. Bass/treble/balance and Sub/HPF menus operate differently. Push button here, turn big honker there, make up your mind, Alpine.

4. Volume should be only volume, never shared with other controls. It’s inconvenient.

5. Changing folders shows ‘folder up’ for 3s. It should display the folder name so you can find the folder you want quickly. Who came up with this junk?

6. Big Honker control knob has to be pushed and turned to change folders, inconvenient. It isn’t cool, its annoying.

7. USB skips songs/folers when there’s other data on the drive. Worked fine after I removed the data.

8. No EQ on a digital tuner? Ripoff. An extra $200 for an eq? Are you crazy? Preset EQs at the touch of a button would be awesome… x200 missed the boat.

9. No radio channel buttons. Takes 2 buttons and a knob to change channels. Xtreme Inconvenience. This is probably the biggest return to vendor point, who wants to fumble through changing channels!

10. The 88 page manual is a mess. They tried to merge with the x300. The words “Double Action Encoder (iDA-X200 only) or Rotary Encoder (iDA-X300 only)” appears 142 times! Read through the PDF before purchasing this unit.

The x200 is junk. I’m looking for something designed to be enjoyed, convenient and intuitive.

Note again that I love the Alpine sound, speakers, amps, and even this tuner is incredible, but the bad design leaves much to be desired.

4 Stars fitzter
This thing is awesome,The only complaint I have is the manual is on a CD so you cant read it while in the car.A quick cheat sheet of the buttons would have been perfect.

4 Stars Controls MTP devices (Creative Zen) like an iPod
I was surprised there was so little info on the web about the Alpine iDA-x200. It’s one of the only car stereos that can control your Creative Zen and other mtp (media transfer protocol) mp3 players like an iPod. When you plug your zen into the usb port, it takes about a minute of searching before it will play music. You can search by playlist, artist, album and others. You can skip to the next song but you can’t speed search through a song (this limitation is only with mtp players). Also, when you turn off the car and come back, it will return to the beginning of the track you were listening to (only with mtp players). This means, for practical purposes, you will want to carry your podcasts and any lengthy tracks on a flashdrive or ums mp3 player. The alpine can speed search tracks on ums devices and it even remembers exactly where you left off within tracks when you disconnect the device and reconnect! Plus you can do all the same searching by artist, album, track, file name ect. So you’re probably wondering, why not use a ums mp3 player exclusively? Two reasons. First, you won’t get playlists. If you want playlists, you have to get a mtp player or iPod. Second there are currently no small ums flash players with large capacity (32 gb) and great sound (Sansa Fuze blows in comparison to Zen V Plus). Two other quick notes, there is no cd player and going to radio presets requires a few clicks. Finally, I want to mention how much better the sound quality is when you allow the Alpine’s 24 bit burr brown d/a converter to process the sound (using usb connection) rather than letting the mp3 player decode the sound and send it into the car via minplug aux connection. If you current stereo plays mp3 cds, do a little experiment and listen to the same song on mp3 cd compared to your mp3 player plugged into the aux. Keep an eye on the horizon for when the Microsoft and Ford sync exclusive deal ends. Then you may be able to buy a non-Ford car or an aftermarket head unit that works with mtp mp3 players and has voice command. Should be within a year. One more thing, if you upgrade your Zen V firmware, the Alpine will control it too. Also, I can’t tell you about the power of the internal amp because all my speakers have a separate amps. Even though it’s the only game in town in aftermarket car stereos that can control mtp music players, it does an admirable job.

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