On Alpine's website it states that the USB interface is faster than the Full speed cable, but has anyone actually dealt with both of them? Is it really that much faster? Is there any other differences between the two as far as functionality goes?

I'm torn between the iDA-X100 and the CDA-9887. I'm definitely hooking the iPOD to it, but love all the sound controls the 9887 offers.

Side note: On alpine's website it says the iDA-X100 is newer than the iDA-X200 and X300 models. Is that right? Seems like the higher model number would be newer.

 

sound controls on the 9885 come from imprint , the X100 has imprint... you'll be able to control it about the same as the 9885. I have used both full speed and USB speed ipod cables. There is a litttle difference but not noticeable, UNLESS you are using a gen5 ipod, then you need to use the USB ipod cable for it to work fully and fast! The USB cable also allows you to do alphabet searching on the X100 faster.

IDA-x100 , x200, x300 all came out at the same time :-) read my post from someone asking the differences on those headunits

 

Great, thanks