Sony Xplod CDX-MP40 - Radio / CD / MP3 player - Full-DIN - in-dash - 52 Watts x 4

by Sony

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• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• ASIN: B0000AHEPI
• Item model number: CDX-MP40
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,789 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 9, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

For MP3 lovers, Sony presents the CDX-MP40 CD receiver. Record your MP3 files onto a CD-R or CD-RW and slide in the disc. Flip up the faceplate, and the song titles and other text information will scroll across the LCD display. Use the attractively organized controls to navigate through your songs and radio stations.

Your MP3s will sound great when powered by Sony's beefy internal amp (23.2 watts RMS/50 peak x four). Seven preset EQ curves give you quick sound control to help sculpt the music to your liking. If your speakers are low in the doors, you'll love the Dynamic Soundstage Organizer. It makes the music sound like it's all around you instead of at your ankles.

Tired of hearing the same handful of songs on the local radio stations? For astounding musical variety, add Sony's 10-disc MP3 changer or XM Satellite Radio tuner (antenna and XM service also required).

Key Features:

• Detachable, fold-down face
• Plays CD-Rs and CD-RWs, MP3 files
• Displays MP3 text
• SSIR-EX tuner
• 18 FM/12 AM presets
• Seek tuning
• EQ3 (Three-band equalizer and seven preset tone curves)
• Dynamic Soundstage Organizer
• XM Satellite Radio controls (XM subscription, optional Sony XM tuner, and antenna required to receive the satellite radio signal): service is available only in the lower 48 states, not available in Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories
• CD text
• Front and rear preamp outputs
• Wireless remote
• Clock
• 23.2 watts RMS/52 peak x four channels
• CD frequency response 10-20,000 Hz
• CD signal-to-noise ratio 90 dB
• FM sensitivity 9 dBf
• One-year warranty

Detailed Features:

• Display: The CDX-MP40 has a blue, 13-segment negative LED display. All of the alpha-numeric characters, level meters, and icons are displayed in white. The display window is approximately 3-7/16" wide and 5/8" high. You can activate one of two motion display patterns or turn off the motion displays.
• Fold-Down Faceplate: This unit is equipped with a manual fold-down faceplate. When you press the open button, the faceplate flips down, revealing the CD slot and the CD eject button. The faceplate is removable only when it is in the down position. 
• MP3 Playback: This unit can play MP3 files recorded on CD-ROM, CD-R, and CD-RW discs in ISO9660 level 1/level 2, Joliet, and Romeo formats. Each disc should have a maximum of eight trees, 255 folders, and 512 files/folders. During MP3 playback, the unit displays any recorded ID3 Tag information. Note: This unit will not play WMA files recorded on any discs.
• Dynamic Soundstage Organizer (DSO): Sony's DSO uses proprietary circuitry to induce subtle phase shifts, simulating a sound source that is placed higher than the actual speakers in the vehicle. For example, when the DSO function is used in a vehicle equipped with speakers mounted low in the front doors, it creates virtual speakers in the dash to raise the soundstage. This unit offers three levels of DSO, each with a larger and higher soundstage. You can store the DSO setting for each source.
• EQ3: You may select one of the following EQ presets: Xplod, Vocal, Club, Jazz, New Age, Rock, or Custom. For each preset, you can adjust the following frequencies: 60 Hz (low), 1 kHz (mid), and 10 kHz (high). The level of each frequency can be adjusted from +10 dB to -10 dB in 1 dB increments.
• Source Tone Memory: each source (AM/FM/CD) can store its own EQ3 levels.
• XM Satellite Radio Controls: This unit can control an optional Sony XM tuner (item #158XTXM1). The optional tuner, along with an antenna and subscription, will allow you to receive XM Satellite Radio. XM Satellite Radio programming features up to 100 channels of digital-quality music, news, talk, sports, entertainment, and children's programming.
• SSIR-EX Tuner: The CDX-MP40 is equipped with Sony's SSIR-EX tuner. You can choose automatic tuning (seek) to choose a radio station, or, if the automatic tuning stops too frequently, you can change the sensitivity of the tuner to the Local Seek mode. This allows you to tune in only relatively strong stations. You can also switch from FM Stereo to FM Mono if the stereo reception is poor.
• Best Tuning Memory (BTM): This feature selects stations with the strongest signals within the selected band and stores them in order of their frequency.
• Station Memo: You can assign a name of up to eight characters to each radio station and store it in memory. The name of the station currently tuned will appear in the display. You can also locate a preset station by name by pressing the list button. When the desired station is located, you can press "enter" to tune in the station. If a preset station has not been assigned a name, its frequency will be displayed.
• Active Servo Control (ASC): To reduce the chances of CD skipping, the CDX-MP40 uses ASC. Sony's unique ASC provides real-time monitoring and adjustment of the laser servos which control the laser's tracking and focus and the rotation speed of the disc. As the disc is read, the laser's reflection is analyzed and the data is evaluated for errors. If scratches or dirt reduce the reflection, the focus servo's gain is increased so the laser can read through the imperfections. If the tracking signal begins to show a large error percentage, the system increases the tracking servo's gain to maintain stable operation.
• CD Text/Disc Memo: If the CD played in this unit has CD Text, the information will appear in the display. Typical CD Text information includes artist name, disc title, and track name. If the unit's Auto Scroll function is set to "on", names exceeding eight characters will be scrolled across the display. In addition, if you are using a CD/MD changer with CD Text/Custom File, you can enter a custom name of up to eight characters for the disc (Disc Memo), which will override the CD Text information.
• 60-Degree Installation: For flexibility of installation, this unit can be mounted between 0 (horizontal) and 60 degrees.
• Remote Control: The CDX-MP40 comes with a wireless, card-sized remote control (RM-X115). The dimensions of the RM-X115 wireless remote are: W=2.05", H=0.434", L=3.547". There is also an option to add a wired remote (RM-X4S).

Changer Controls:

• CD/MD Changer Control: In addition to playing a CD in the unit, the CDX-MP40 can control an external CD/MiniDisc changer, including a CD changer capable of playing CD-Rs and CD-RWs encoded with MP3 files. If the changer has CD Text capability, the CD Text information will appear in the head unit's display. This includes ID3 tags on MP3-encoded discs played in the changer. With an optional XA-C30 Multi-changer adapter, you can control three changers with this head unit; with a series of multi-changer adapters, a total of seven changers can be connected.
• Custom File: When the unit is connected to a CD/MD changer with Custom File capability, you can locate discs in the changer by title by using this unit's list-up function. While a disc is playing in the CD changer, its name will be displayed. By pressing the list button, you can display the names of the other discs loaded in the changer while still playing the original disc. When the desired disc is found, you can press enter, and the selected disc is loaded and played.

Note:

Display Illumination/Clock Display: Pressing the "off" button once will turn off audio output, but the clock display and face/button illumination remain on. This makes the clock display and face/button illumination "keyed" instead of "unit on" only. To turn the unit off completely, you must press the off button for two seconds. Note: When installing in a vehicle without an accessory power wire at the radio location, you must turn the radio completely off (this defeats keyed operation), or you may wire the accessory power wire of this radio to an alternate source of accessory power to retain keyed clock and face/button illumination operation.

Product Description

Detachable, fold-down face Plays CD-Rs and CD-RWs, MP3 files Displays MP3 text SSIR-EX tuner 18 FM/12 AM presets Seek tuning EQ3 (Three-band equalizer and seven preset tone curves) Dynamic Soundstage Organizer XM Satellite Radio controls (XM subscription, optional Sony XM tuner, and antenna required to receive the satellite radio signal): service is available only in the lower 48 states, not available in Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories CD text Front and rear preamp outputs Wireless remote Clock 23.2 watts RMS/52 peak x four channels CD frequency response 10-20,000 Hz CD signal-to-noise ratio 90 dB FM sensitivity 9 dBf One-year warranty

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great radio, January 8, 2012

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Installed in my golf cart over a year ago,gives amazing sound, easy to use. Recommend this radio, if it works in golf cart it should be great in a automobile.