Kenwood KDC-MP8017

THE GOOD:
i lost the instruction manual and i can't figure out how to burn mp3s so i can play them on this deck. have wasted about 3 cd's trying to work it. this is my first mp3 player and i'm pretty ignorant on the subject. please email me if you can clue me in.

THE BAD:
needs a motorized face so you can just press eject on the face without opening it first

SUMMARY:
other than the fact i can't figure the mp3 portion out, i'm satisfied with the choice. skipped maybe once in maybe 6 months. cool color change option

THE GOOD:
none.

THE BAD:
1) The screen display is very dull, and it can only display 8-9 characters for folder names.

2) Cannot display Japanese/ Chinese text.

3) Cannot play some mp3. (Even if you bought the most expensive CDR on the market, and burn it with low speed).

SUMMARY:
1) The screen display is very dull, and it can only display a limit of characters for folder's name.

2) Cannot display Japanese/ Chinese text.

3) Cannot play some mp3. (Even if you bought the most expensive CDR on the market, and burn it with low speed).

THE GOOD:
A *very* nice model. Every aspect has been well thought of.

THE BAD:
uh... loses 0.1 points for the 8 character station name limit. hope I'm not too harsh... :-)

SUMMARY:
Has very good MP3 support, ID3 tags, and MP3 sound quality isn't almost the same as CD - it's exactly the same! Overall, it really has great sound (I use it with 200W speakers...)

Much better than an ordinary CD player, holds 150 MP3s - same as having 10 CDs at once. and it's not even very expensive. I'm satisfied.

see title

THE GOOD:
Plays MP3, 3 security features, looks neat, not too flashy (like Sony), does not skip, feature-packed, clarity impressive even for mp3.

THE BAD:
Does not shuffle across folders, faceplate is not motorized, lacking in bass.

SUMMARY:
I had my mind set : I needed an indash MP3 player. I'm fed up of bringing portable players into my car and jiving with the messy cables rather than the music most of the time.

I went into some major research. The Internet being my most updated and trusted source, I considered all brands and models out there. I came down to choices...
It was either the Aiwa, Kenwood (not the EXCelion model, too pricey), Sony or Clarion (also quite pricey but hell it looks good!).

Aiwa was going real dirt cheap where I am (Malaysia). But reading the reviews really crapped me out. Aiwa was the first down the drain. Sony Xplode was the next in line. Strangely, I found another model that was not...

This is one of the best car mp3 players I've ever seen and used. BUY ONE!!

THE GOOD:
Lovely to pop in a cd with 5 folders containing 35 songs in each, and switch around to fit your mood or passengers.

THE BAD:
The bad was I have an Infiniti G20 which had a powered Bose system which I learned was a problem for the installation. Also, assembling a cd-r of mp3's using Direct CD rather than EasyCD Creator yields bad results.

SUMMARY:
I researched this drive along with the Aiwa and the Sony and found it on-line for $275 plus $15 shipping. A lot better than the $449 Al and Ed's was going to charge me for the "special order". I did want to have it professionally installed, though, because of prior bad experience, and it was a good thing I did. Turns out cars with "active speakers" - Nissans, Infinitis, Volvos are not compatible without an adaptor which I was charged $99 for and then $60 for the install rather than the $40 I was quoted on the phone. The antenna had to have an adaptor also - another 10 bucks, and the FM...

THE GOOD:
ist cool

THE BAD:
nothing

SUMMARY:
Its cool and ship

THE GOOD:
Awesome sound quality. I'm using a Rockford fosgate PA/2 line driver, but my old deck only had 500mv RCA outs. This one has 1.8V. Either way, it comes out to 9.5V with my line driver but the quality is still incredible on this deck compared to the old Pioneer P835 I had.

Easy to navigate folders and filenames. Random play is nice, especially if your folders are setup by genre- you could have random 80s music for example...

THE BAD:
The RDS doesn't pick up the station call letters for you like my old deck did. You can still manually enter them though.

Can't hear the song while you're fastforwarding it... I never fastforward though, so its all good.

3-4 second delay when you put the MP3 CD in. 1 sec delay between songs. But this is hardly noticeable!

SUMMARY:
Its a great deck, I highly recommend it!

I finally convinced my wife to let me buy an mp3 stereo for the car and while I am not surprised I love it, I cant believe how much she uses it.

We were taking a trip to Florida and had a 15 hour drive ahead of us so we wanted to get the deck installed asap. It only took about 1 hour of messing around with it to get used to the settings and controls. Everything is really straightforward and easy to figure out given a little time with the users guide. Consider this pretty impressive given the many features the deck offers.

It sounds great, the mp3 functions are awesome. It doesnt skip at all. It reads all the mp3 discs I created in the last couple of years plus all the new ones I have burned especially for the deck. The only drawback, and I would still buy it anyways, is the inability to shuffle across multiple folders. In other words, if you have 10 folders on a disc with 10 songs in each, you can only shuffle within each folder - not across all 100 songs....