Date:         Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:13:12 -0500
Reply-To:     Larry Chase <lchase@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         Larry Chase <lchase@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: in dash MP3 player??
Comments: To: Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:13:37 -0800, Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
wrote:

>anybody with an indash mp3 player?
>
>Matthew Pollard          "Racing with the wind and flirting with death
>Dept. Of Chemistry        So have a cup of coffee and catch your breath"
>University of Idaho
>www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356

Matthew,

Have a Kenwood MP3/CD player that I'm very imopressed with. Was ~$350 and
has all the important features ... folder/Tag display etc. Last week I was
crusing this gravel "Washboard" teeth jarring road in Death Valley at 40MPH
and the player didn't skip a beat.

Long term I will replace this unit (sorry .. pre-sold) with one (Probably
Kenwood) that has a aux in ability. Then I'll be able to feed my Laptop and
Sat TV audio into the system. On my Laptop I have over 30K songs in MP3
format. That will be sweet.

Have figured out what speakers to install and whether to go for a amp. My
concern is power consumption. I do a lot of dry camping and electrical
consumptions is of course a major issue. If I go find an in dash unit with
aux in, that could power 6-8 speakers with low amp usage ... that would be
perfect. But perhaps unrealistic.

Larry
85Westy