Aiwa CDC-MP3 CD Player

Pros: It plays MP3 Music files.
Cons: Cost

Yes Aiwa's CDC-MP3 will play MP3 files from a CD that gives you roughly 10 hours of music on one CD. Now from my experience, I get between 150 to 175 MP3 files on one 74 minute CD and 165 to 190 on an 80 minute CD. You must have a CD burner and software...

Pros: Plays mp3s
Cons: Doesn't play anything if it can't be powered on

I'd like to review this product in a thorough, covers-all-the-bases type of review. I'd like to tell you about all of its features and tell you whether or not I would recommend buying one. I'd like to tell you all this and more about the Aiwa CDC-MP3,...

Pros: Plays MP3 CDs in your car. My daughter thinks it looks cool
Cons: Rotten "random" feature. Display is too short. Owner's manual is awful.

I bought a portable MP3 cd player last summer. In spite of its foibles (no ID3 Tag support, can't fast forward or rewind in an MP3) I liked it a lot. It came with a car kit, but to be honest, between the cables all over the place and the squeaking...

Pros: Price, lots of LED's, sounds good.
Cons: Must buy certain CDR's to avoid skipping. Must install securely.

INTRO:
Well, about a year and a half ago when I bought my truck it didn't have a CD player. An MP3 player is a good installation being that one CDR of MP3's can hold ten hours of music, and easily replace multi CD changer. Fry's Electronics’...

Pros: Plays MP3s
Cons: H-Bass, blue lights, lack of characters in display

An audio CD with about 16 songs or an MP3 with about 160 songs? A CD changer that costs extra, that mounts in the trunk, requiring more discs, or a single CD?

Those were basically the two questions running through my head at the time. Simply...

Pros: MP3 playback in your car, a worthy replacement for a changer if you can deal with the quirks, well-readable display (though not perfect), easy to navigate, 2 sets of RCA outputs
Cons: MP3 is a lossy compression scheme which sacrifices mids and highs at 128kbit or below, internal amp stinks, no subwoofer output, internal amp seems to output too much MID to HIGH bass.

Pros: Play mp3's in your car, removable faceplate, high-power output (with line outputs also)
Cons: Limited remote range, cheap faceplate case, weird faceplate attachment, needs way to go to tracks faster

I've had this unit in my car (self-installed) for about 2 months and for the most part I have been happy with it. I made a test CD-R with 153 mp3 files (one directory) in various bitrates and sizes on green media.

Information:

The...

Pros: MP3 Playback in the car!
Cons: Remote mounted to steering. Auto Volume function not included.

*******UPDATE*******
03/23/01
Just to let you know, I still love my Aiwa unit, but in the interest of science I just purchased the Kenwood KDC-MP8017. I will be putting it through the paces over the next couple of weeks. Since the Aiwa unit now...

Pros: Plays MP3 discs, affordable
Cons: detachable face not easy to put on, random play does not span folders

I saw this unit go on sale at Fry's some time ago at $200 and I'm finally writing a review about if after some use. I have been eager to buy this unit so that I can carry a few discs in my car and still have access to many many songs. I wasn't...

Pros: MP3's for the car!!! Reads ID3 tags; Plays CD-R AND CD-RW;
Cons: Useless wireless remote; No digital radio; Skips some (not enough to annoy)

Picture this...
1. Surf to http://www.billboard.com
2. Make your own weekly billboard CD-RW's from Napster.
3. Pop your CD-RW into your AIWA CDC-MP3 player
4. Repeat steps 1-4 weekly.

For long trips...
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Pros: IT PLAYS MP3s!
Cons: Hard to find, useless remote.

No really, I mean it!

Aiwa has finally achieved the holy grail of consumer MP3 players: cheap and useful. Before the release of the CDC-MP3 unit, you might be able to get a useful unit, but it wouldn't be cheap. At $300, it is a quite...

Pros: Great Price, Plays MP3s,
Cons: We need a revision 2.0 of this unit.

First the good:

1) It sounds great.
2) The price is right.
2) It's LOUD. I love loud music and I can't take more than 70%
while a "hot" (maxed out signal) mp3 is playing.
3) The colors and display are...

Pros: Plays MP3s!!! Easy interface, neat coloring.
Cons: Skips! Skips! Skips! and no EQ features....

I love this thing. Don't get me wrong. The amps in it aren't bad, it has a somewhat useful remote, and it looks neat. However... (this is a big however) it skips! Not due to MP3s or bad CD burns. I mean just skips on regular audio CDs. Sometimes it skips...

Pros: Plays CDs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs encoded with MP-3 data allowing 200 songs on one CD.
Cons: Relatively slow in loading mp3’s. Very cheap remote.

I have had this unit for about two months now. I wanted to become very comfortable with the unit before I wrote an epinion on it.

I recently had to replace my Blaupunkt car stereo due to very lousy performance from it. Not only did CD’s skip...

Pros: Price, MP3, Power
Cons: Skipped once

This is a really innovative product. It is one of only two car deck MP-3 players on the market that I know of (20DEC00), the other being a Kenwood deck at about $750USD retail. At $300USD retail for the Aiwa it is a good deal in my opinion. I found...