by "RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
Published 10/04/2017 at 16:17
by "RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
Published 10/04/2017 at 16:17
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I feel like a dog that’s just caught the car he was chasing. What do I do with it now?
I’d been lusting after this head unit for years but now it’s basically useless - no USB, no Bluetooth, no screen for a backup camera. I guess I’ll hook it up to a 12V power source and watch the lights blink at me ...
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
10/04/2017 at 16:26, STARS: 1
I still have one of those! It’s in a box. I used it for like two months, and it’s sat there ever since.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
10/04/2017 at 16:36, STARS: 0
If it plays CDs isn’t there something you can do so it’ll have an aux jack?
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
10/04/2017 at 16:41, STARS: 0
There’s an aux in jack on the back. I’ll probably end up using that with a bluetooth receiver inside the house ...
"Tohru" (tohrurokuno)
10/04/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 0
I mean, if you don’t want it I have a non-running minitruck I’m collecting parts for
"syaieya" (syaieya)
10/04/2017 at 16:56, STARS: 1
The polished metal with led light head units always look so out of place in the cold, dark, unfeeling center console of my german sedans.
I want more than a cassette deck but i wish they didnt all scream they didnt belong here
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
10/04/2017 at 17:01, STARS: 1
Psssht, Sirius and HD Radio? What is this newfangled contraption?!
I added Bluetooth via an $8 adaptor and it already works better than our 2015 Honda’s factory Bluetooth. My feelings on BT range from ambivalence to complete hatred. Wires are better.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
10/04/2017 at 17:01, STARS: 0
Make a bracket to hang it off the bottom of the cabinets in your kitchen. Hide some speakers somewhere and you can have some music while you cook.
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
10/04/2017 at 17:24, STARS: 0
Will have to convince the wifey of the joys of watching blinking lights over the cheap bluetooth speaker already parked in the kitchen ...
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
10/04/2017 at 17:25, STARS: 0
Probably sounds much better than the cheap speaker.
"beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard" (beardsbynelly-Rikerbeard)
10/04/2017 at 17:31, STARS: 0
I’ve been meaning to convert my old head unit and speakers into a radio for the garage. You could do that.
"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
10/04/2017 at 17:55, STARS: 0
Curious, why do you like that head unit so much to get it over a more modern piece?
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
10/04/2017 at 18:13, STARS: 0
Nostalgia, mostly. I had a lesser unit (X889) of the same generation of Kenwood receivers that didn’t really do anything less, but still.
Also, this is a special edition of sorts - Kenwood’s 25th anniversary, and there was still money in making car audio receivers before in-car entertainment systems became harder to remove and/or integrate with, so this is kind of a fewer-expenses-spared overbuilt exercise like the Pioneer DEX-P99RS that’s still available today (although not really to the same level of crazy).
Kenwood receivers since the X993 also have gone toward single-color displays and the ricer in me likes the blinking lights. Blinking! Lights!
"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
10/04/2017 at 18:36, STARS: 0
Only if you take the accompanying 10-disc CD changer as well.
"NojustNo" (front24200)
10/04/2017 at 23:12, STARS: 1
Yah I know the feels. I always wanted a top of line alpine and ran across this at the goodwill outlet of all places. Best one that year. $500 msrp. The face retracts into the body. Crazy good eq and sound enhancement. 75c and I took it as is.
Turned out it works perfect and my roomies 2002 honda is now rocking a period correct head unit lol
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
10/04/2017 at 23:33, STARS: 0
WOW.
"Eggplant" (nasu)
10/05/2017 at 01:48, STARS: 0
Is that the one where you could load custom animations into it?
I also had a lesser version of this deck. The volume knob has gotten a little (a lot, if I’m really being honest) unresponsive but even the display with lower colour depth is still a lot nicer than anything else on the market today in the same price bracket/size. Throw an external Bluetooth module on the aux input RCAs, and you’re good to go.
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
10/05/2017 at 12:15, STARS: 0
I think so. There’s definitely weird animations and I recall something about loading something or other.
Confession: I had two higher end decks from this era, an X889 and an X991. The X889 broke, and I stupidly left the X991 in my last car when I sold it and now wish I hadn’t.
I currently have a KIV-701 installed mostly for the backup display functionality and it has most of the sound-shaping features of the Excelons (time alignment, equalizer, etc). It’s not as ... blingtastic as the earlier Kenwoods though.
"Tohru" (tohrurokuno)
10/05/2017 at 23:05, STARS: 1
Deal