Nostalgic purchases

"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2) 10/04/2017 at 16:17 • Filed to: None

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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 > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 16:26

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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 > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 16:36

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If it plays CDs isn’t there something you can do so it’ll have an aux jack?

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 10/04/2017 at 16:41

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There’s an aux in jack on the back. I’ll probably end up using that with a bluetooth receiver inside the house ...

Tohru > shop-teacher 10/04/2017 at 16:56

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I mean, if you don’t want it I have a non-running minitruck I’m collecting parts for

syaieya > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 16:56

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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 > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 17:01

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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 > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 17:01

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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 > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 10/04/2017 at 17:24

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Will have to convince the wifey of the joys of watching blinking lights over the cheap bluetooth speaker already parked in the kitchen ...

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 17:25

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Probably sounds much better than the cheap speaker.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 17:31

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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 > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 17:55

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Curious, why do you like that head unit so much to get it over a more modern piece?

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > My bird IS the word 10/04/2017 at 18:13

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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 > Tohru 10/04/2017 at 18:36

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Only if you take the accompanying 10-disc CD changer as well.

NojustNo > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/04/2017 at 23:12

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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 > NojustNo 10/04/2017 at 23:33

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WOW.

Eggplant > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 10/05/2017 at 01:48

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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 > Eggplant 10/05/2017 at 12:15

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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 > shop-teacher 10/05/2017 at 23:05

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Deal