Kenwood KDC-MP232 – Radio / CD / MP3 player – Full-DIN – in-dash – 45 Watts x 4
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at
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Kenwood KDC-MP232 – Radio / CD / MP3 player – Full-DIN – in-dash – 45 Watts x 4
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I just put one of these into my new Honda Pilot and I hesitate to give it even 1 star.
First of all, when loading a cd into the deck, it takes an extremely long time for the music to start.
Once the music finally starts, it skips really bad. I tried several different audio and MP3 discs, but they all had the same result. I looked the discs over for scratches or anything else that might cause that, and there was nothing that should cause a car deck to skip.
Once the car started moving, the tiniest bumps in the road would cause this deck to skip and start the loading/reading process all over again.
Radio stations don’t come in very well. After checking the antennae connection several times, local stations are barely audible and mostly fuzz.
A car deck should really be more durable and less sensitive to bumps and small blemishes in cds. And there is no excuse to not be able to pick up a radio station or two.
Don’t buy this deck. Go with a Pioneer or JVC instead.
I just installed this in my car last week. First I must say this stereo sounds great! What a difference from the original one that came with my Toyota. (4 new speakers help too!) I’m new to mp3 files, but put around 90 songs on one CD. This weekend I took a 5 hour trip to a wedding, and drove over a lot of winding mountain roads, some places without pavement. I had no problem with skipping at all. That one CD lasted the entire round trip. There is very little radio reception in the daytime on a lot of my trip, so I didn’t bother to check the reception that much. I have pretty poor radio reception where I live, and so far the reception on this receiver seems pretty good.
My only complaints are with the controls and the manual. The manual isn’t very clear in some areas. In the section on security codes in the manual,it states” Indication of this Security Code activation prevents your precious audio unit from stealing.” Huh??? And sometimes the controls don’t do what I expect them to do; for instance, if I wanted to fast forward to the next song, sometimes the CD would shut off and I’d have to turn it on again. Most of the time it would resume where it was before, but sometimes would start all over. That could be aggravating. And when adjusting the sounds and speakers, once I saw how to set the volume differently for front and rear speakers; now I can’t find that feature again. I do like that when I’m playing a CD and turn the car off; when I start it again, it resumes at the same place. (Do they all do that? This is my first car CD player.
I’ll keep learning more about it when I’m sitting in my driveway, and will probably rely on the remote when driving, for safety. It was easy to fast forward using the remote.
But for a little over $100, I’m very happy with it. And I was able to (carefully!) install it myself in a 97 Corolla. I think it is a great bargain if you can learn it’s quirks (and keep it from stealing!)