Sony XM
Product Description
Sony Xplod CDX M3DI features Dynamic Soundstage Organizer (DSO). Proprietary circuitry induces subtle phase shift in the preamp output of the head unit, different in each output channel, to simulate a sound source that is higher in origin. The frequency response in a section of the sound is altered, to further enhance the perception that the sound is originating from a physically higher source. These two factors combine to seemingly raise the sound stage, and spread it wider across the dash, even if the speakers are mounted low in the doors.PRODUCT FEATURES:32,000 color Thin Film Transistor (TFT) display;Motorized flip-out face;MP3 and CD-R/RW playback;CD/MD Control with Custom File memory;XM ready.Amazon.com Product Description
Sony’s XM Radio-ready automotive CD/MP3 player offers the style and convenience you’d expect from a Sony stereo. The CDX-M3DI’s sleek silver rims, piano-black face, and oval-shape design are nothing if not distinctive. The head unit also features blue and red backlit controls and a virtual art gallery in its 32,000-color TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD, which lets you customize your dashboard’s look with dozens of pre-installed digital images, animations, and full-motion clips.
For power, you get 23-watts-per-channel x 4. Sony’s skip-free G-Protection technology and MP3 playback capabilities–both popular features in portable-audio devices–make great car technologies, too. G-Protection provides virtually skip-free listening. You get 30 station presets (18 FM, 12 AM) and an auxiliary input to accommodate an external device such as an iPod or a portable voice recorder. In addition, the head unit is CD-R/-RW compatible and XM-satellite-radio ready.
CD/MP3 changer controls let you add an optional multidisc changer for greater music storage and, of course, longer listening sessions. DSO, Sony’s proprietary dynamic soundstage organizer, raises the perceived sonic soundstage from its low origination point in the door, while EQ3 offers the power of three-band equalization at the touch of a button. A 4-volt preamp output lets you hook the system up with an optional and higher-powered amplifier.
What’s in the Box
Car stereo, sleeve, trim ring, a pair of release keys, a front-panel cover, four ISO-mount screws, a wiring harness, a wireless remote control (model RM-X131), a CR2025 lithium battery, a user’s manual, an installation manual, and Warranty information.
Features:
- Automotive MP3-compatible CD player head unit with 23 watts per channel x 4
- 32,000-color TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD lets you customize your dash with pre-installed digital images and full-motion animation
- 30 station presets (18 FM, 12 AM)
- DSO soundstage organizer, EQ3 offers 1-touch, 3-band equalization
- 4-volt preamplifier outputs facilitate hookup with an optional, higher-powered amplifier
Price: $299.00
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PAID HACK: “Roy Givens III”
…is obviously an employee of Sirius, all of his 8 reviews are designed to run down XM radio and promote Sirius. What a pitiful, brainlessly-obvious fake. Surely Amazon can do a better job of screening out goons like this, otherwise the credibility of its users’ reviews will continue to plummet.
Me, I own nor use neither system, just wanted to post this as a heads-up for unsuspecting Amazon users, so I’m giving it 3 stars as a neutral rating.
3/22/05
Just wanted to advise Amazon users that, for reasons known only to himself, Eduardo Nietzsche has posted slanderous statements about me on several items available on Amazon.com. I wrote my honest (albeit, excited) review of Sirius vs XM in February 2004 and posted to several items related to the services. It recently came to my attention that Mr. Nietzsche, in his divine omniscience, has declared to the world that I (Roy Givens III) “…[am]obviously an employee of Sirius” (I am not.) He then referred to my review as “…a pitiful, brainlessly-obvious fake” and called me a “goon”.
He then admits that he owns neither system, yet he gives XM 3 stars. Footnote: in my Feb 2004 review I pointed out that by XM giving up their commercial advertising they would have to raise their prices. They did indeed raise prices on February 28, 2005, to the same $12.95 per month as Sirius…exactly as I had predicted one year earlier in my review (below).
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(Feb 2004 review)
First of all, NONE of the music channels on Sirius have commercials. As far as the $3.00 a month subscription difference between Sirius and XM, just wait. XM is dropping their ads soon and they’re going to have to make up that revenue somehow. Guess who’s gonna pay for it? XM subscribers, that’s who. So, don’t get too used to that $9.95/mo XM rate, because it’s going up. Anyway, here’s what I like about Sirius: crystal clear digital reception, a wide variety of in-genre music streams (16 different streams in the “Rock” category alone) and, starting this year, all the NFL games each week. They already carry the NBA and NHL, so Sirius is a sports fan’s dream. The docking systems work great, too. I’ve got a docking kit connected to my stereo at home and another one in my car, so I just pop the Here2Anywhere receiver out of the living room kit and plug it into the car kit to listen to on the way to work every day. When I get home, I take the receiver inside and pop it back into the stereo. The unit has 24 channel presets and it remembers them no matter where it’s docked. Sirius is great. I signed up for two years of service and I’m glad I did.