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Old Nov 28, 2008 | 11:02 AM
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Anyone have any pros and cons about this headunit? It looks very sleek and cool and i'm about to buy it soon. I read the best buy reviews and they only had good things to say about it..

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i have the iDA-X200 (similar) and i love it.
no more POS CD`s skipping, SQ is good, a lot of music can be stored on
a thumb drive and it is light weight.
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i have it. no CD player unless you get a changer.

I can't think of one bad thing to say about it. ipod connection is fantastic. the unit is easy to use. what do you wanna know about it?

ps- the one pictured is not the same one i have, the one in the picture is a x001 which is the original one. it had a few bugs so alpine came out with the x100 and its perfect in every way
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i love mine its awsome.. and weighs less so look at it like a radio upgrade/weight reduction
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Old Nov 30, 2008 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
i have it. no CD player unless you get a changer.

I can't think of one bad thing to say about it. ipod connection is fantastic. the unit is easy to use. what do you wanna know about it?

ps- the one pictured is not the same one i have, the one in the picture is a x001 which is the original one. it had a few bugs so alpine came out with the x100 and its perfect in every way
yeah thanks for pointing that out, i found a marine edition that comes in silver, i think ill be going with the black one though... thanks for the help fellas
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Old Dec 1, 2008 | 04:59 PM
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I was just looking at these today at best buy. Whats the process for playing MP3s since im an audio noob -- it comes from a thumb drive?
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you just copy the files to the thumb drive.
you will need to create a folder structure of your liking.
the beauty of it is you can make tons of different playlists/custom folders
and not need to burn CDs or deal with the clutter, and MP3s are cheaper.
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Old Dec 2, 2008 | 10:39 PM
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Put one in my cadillac and its crazy, I had alpines older cd deck that ive had for 2 years, and this puts it to sleep, so easy to search through songs. The sound quality is pretty good too, better than my last one.
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they dont do CDs!!!!!
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Originally Posted by hardcorepber
they dont do CDs!!!!!
why would you even want cds again when you could use an ipod. No loosing cds, no scratching cds, no skipping. I love my x100.
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