I'm quite satisifed with my MP3 HU, you can get up to 10 albums on a CD and a cake box of 25 fits nicely in the 'glove box'. Is it that inconvenient to burn CDs for pennies and change them every 11 hours?

 

liking that

looks like it will take any usb powered drive, solid state or otherwise

whats the largest 2.5" disk you can get currently?

 

How does a Fujitsu 200gb 2.5" Notebook Drive Sataii sound?

eBuyer link

Sounds like a carputer is what your looking for ukphil78. There's a fair bit of work involved to get on eup and running, and due to the lack of space for a decent sized touch screen, you'd probably have to cut into the dash to fit anything worthwhile. I'll see if I can find the guy who's fitted one into his S2.

EDIT - Found it here

 

chuck that in an ebay usb drive enclosure and game on

have to extend the usb into the se

 

I've been using a Kenwood music keg for the past couple of years until my S.

I wanted to put it in my S but it already has an Alpine fitted using brackets screwed in from the side so I don't fancy taking that out!

The Kenwood or Phatnoise has a hard drive cartridge and you can get them up to 100gb in size, a bit old hat now I suppose but I got on with it very well.

I've had to join the ipod generation now.

 

Has anyone ever bought a head unit in from the US? Any difference? I know they tend to listen to more AM whereas we are FM.....

Anything else strange about US head units?

 

FM bands are different in the US

 

IIRC, a US-sourced stereo should function normally in the UK because we use a similar FM band - 87.5 to 108.0 MHz.
Its only the newer digital radio technology that isn't compatible...

Thats not to be confused with the Japanese FM bands that are narrower - 76 to 90 MHz.

 

Some of the older Alpine HUs on the US market didn't have the 3.5mm input jack for the fingertip controls kit (you can tell because the model names didn't have the "r" at the end). I suspect that Alpine have now addressed this issue.

 

GrantedS2k - I bought an apline from the US 3 years ago and found certain stations could not be tuned

PL - Most do now have the 3.5mm socket on the back now.