Brilliant MP3 player!

I have had mine for more than a year and its still looks brand new although i frequently drop it on the floor by accident. This is one of the most durable MP3 players ever. I would definitely recommend it and it's perfect for the gym.

Very good, but it may not work with SD HC Cards

This is a very good product and I would definitely have awarded 5 stars had it worked with my 4GB SD HC Card. I had a suspicion that this might be a problem, but was unable to confirm it from the specs. Anyway, it won't work, although it seems OK when I plug the SD Card into a USB adapter and use that instead.

Sound quality is very good, with adequate volume. Navigation is adequate, (the display is too small to show track titles etc), but you can jump to tracks by typing in the track number (assuming you can remember what they are (I have over 500 tracks :-) )

Documentation is dismal, but you don't really need it.

A MUST FOR DAB LOVERS!

I Recently bought this head unit, love it! The DAB quality is very good, although you need an external aerial (unsure whether included from amazon), cd player superb sound in my standard vauxhall speakers.

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Ipod full speed connection

I have to rate this as only three stars as the majority of people will be buying this to control their ipod. At the moment their isn't many stereos that are ipod compatible for around £180, this may be the best out there but for me they are still a long way to go before they get it right. This unit is great if you have a small sized ipod, but I have a 60gb with approx 5000 songs (not small), the problem I had was with the scrolling function or fast search as they named it, it's not fast. You have to use the volume dial to scroll through your list of songs/albums, this can take an age to do (4-5min) and if you rest your hand from turning the dial you go right back to the beginning again.....very frustrating.
Apart from that everything else about the unit is spot on. I would advise you to get a Dension Ice Link if you a serious ipod user, I had one in my old car and wish they made one for the car I've got now.

Great for speech - average for Music

First of all, it is important to appreciate that I bought this item because I wanted to convert written documents that I use for work into MP3 speech files (using some text-to-MP3 conversion software that I have) so that I could listen to my documents straight off a 1GB Pen Drive while driving instead of having to read them at home. Therefore my number one concern was the clarity of the speech as it passed through this device - which turned out to be great - very clear and very easy to understand. I tried music as well (out of interest) and the quality was average. If you plan to use this device for music only then don't expect CD quality as the radio link intoduces some background noise which makes the music sound just very slightly muffled. The line-in socket plugged directly into a separate MP3 player seemed to give better results than playing MP3 music files directly off the Pen Drive option.

The unit itself is nicely made with a soft rubber type feel (rather than the usual cheap hard plastic). One thing to bear in mind is that when it has a Pen Drive plugged in (which goes in the top) it then makes the unit quite tall, however it does swivel at the base which is useful. There are no instructions supplied other than a picture and a couple of words, so some trial and error is involved to set it up - but this is all quite straightforward (the unit displays on the LCD panel on the front what FM frequency you need to tune your car radio into in order to pick up the signal). If you have a brand new Pen drive then format it on your PC first before copying any files to it as the unit didn't seem to be able to read the MP3 files properly from the Pen drive until I had done this. The remote control is handy - but one thing to bear in mind is that it is Infared based and not Radio based. Which means that you have to point the remote control directly at the unit otherwise it won't pick up the Infared signal (even when I tried to bounce the Infared signal off the white interior roof of the car it still couldn't pick up the signal). If your cigarette lighter is tucked away then this may be an issue.

There is only a play and pause option on the unit itself (plus some frequency controls for setting up the output signal), controls such as next/previous/stop/pause/play etc. are all on the remote control. There is an EQ option button as well on there which allows various combinations of treble and base to be stepped through that can help align the music quality with the characteristics of your car radio. There is also a couple of buttons that allow you to speed up or slow down the speed of the track - not really all that useful when playing music tracks (unless you just want to make your music sound funny!), however when listening to speech these two buttons turned out to be very useful indeed as I can now shorten the amount of time it takes to listen to a whole document by speeding it up - or if I wish, I can slow it right down if a section is not very clear to understand. All in all I am very happy with this device, it has fully met all my requirements and is good value for money. I also suspect that all devices of this type (that have to transmit the music to your car radio as a radio signal) will suffer from the same loss of quality when playing music and this one is probably as good as any other on the market in this respect. If you are looking for CD quality music coming out of your car radio from a separate MP3 player then I would recommend looking into a hardwired set up and not a radio link set up. However, if you only need speech quality between your MP3 player and your car radio then a radio link device such as this one is more than adequate.

won't fit my 2gb nano either

I ordered this too - looks really good and i'm sure would do the job fine. However it won't fit my 2gb at all - so the above description is totally misleading. Save yourself some money on postage and don't bother with it unless you're certain it's going to fit !!