Kenwood KDC-MP6025 Sirius Ready CD/MP3 Receiver w/CD Changer Controller
A great head unit at a great price!
For a little under $200, this deck gives you alot. Yes, it plays both regular audio CDs and MP3 encoded CDs. But it also has a few other very usful features. One is an auxiliary input. Not all head units have one. Even head units that go for alot more. And others require an adaptor that costs $25-$50 more. But this one is ready to go right out of the box. Now you might ask why I would fuss over this rather small feature. The reason: the ability to connect a portable MP3 player and actually get good sound. No need for crappy sounding FM transmitters here. Just clean, hard-wired sound. And although you can burn MP3 disks, it is nice to be able to hook up a portable MP3 player to listen to those new downloads without having to burn a whole disk. <br /> <br />Another feature that you might find useful is the high pass filter for the speaker outputs. Again, most decks with this feature cost ALOT more than $200. This feature is useful since it allows you to cut out bass frequenies from the speaker outputs. This is useful if you plan to add a powered subwoofer and want to free all the watts that this deck can produce to reproduce mid and high frequencies without burdening it with having to reproduce power-demanding bass. <br /> <br />But besides these two features (which were important to me), it is a great deck in other ways. It definitely sounds good and produces a good amount of power for a mere head unit (if you don't plan to add amps, this is important). <br /> <br />