ALPINE CDE102 E 50WX4 AM FM CD DET FACE

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001QDMU9E
• Item model number: 102
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #315 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

Product Description

Product Description

Play music from CDs, iPods, iPhones and other portable media players! You're looking at a full-featured deck, that's easy and intuitive to use. This one-stop music player comes with a sleek LCD display with fixed red and classic blue illumination. Alpine's signature rotary knob makes controlling all your music a breeze. This unit also comes with a convenient front panel auxiliary input - so you or your passenger can plug in your portable media player as an additional source.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good For The Price, April 14, 2009

By	David E. Ringkor "Dave" (St. Louis) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was looking for a "cheap" car stereo to replace the factory head unit in my 2001 Mustang. I wanted AM/FM and CD, with mp3 compatibility, a USB connection, and an AUX in. Additionally, due to my car's unusual factory sound system, I needed preamp outputs with a high pass filter and a low pass filter for the subwoofers. The Alpine satisfied all these requirements, and it's been great so far.

Pros: cheap, sounds good, easy to install, plays mp3's on both data CDs and USB sticks, and supports iPod connectivity with optional cable as well as audio AUX input on the front panel.

Cons: User interface is a bit clunky.

Notes: I have a Mac, and to get songs to play properly and in the correct order on a USB stick, you have to copy them to the stick in the order you want them played, and then *remove* all the hidden files that the Mac copies as well. The Alpine will skip these hidden files, but it takes a few seconds for it to realize it can't play them.

Also, my unit does not seem to like Memorex CD media. A burned Memorex CD plays fine at first, but then in the middle and toward the end of a CD it starts to skip, drop out, and eventually stop playing altogether with "error" on the display. TDK media has no problems at all with everything else being the same.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Misleading packaging, November 22, 2009

By	R. Walker (Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

So I bought this at a big box electronics store and was extremely disappointed to find out that even though the box states that it is "Made for iPod" and "Works with iPhone" and then has a picture of every single iPod model made, the unit won't actually control your iPod without a $30 cable that has to be plugged into the back of the unit. The box even states "Full Speed Connection for iPhone/iPod" as the first bullet list on the back of the box, and never once mentions that an additional cable is required. Wish I had known that BEFORE I installed the headunit and tried to plug my iPod into the front USB port. This really needs to read "iPod/iPhone Ready". Shame on you Alpine, you don't have to trick people to sell your products because you have outstanding stuff, but by misleading people you will lose customers including loyal customers like me who has owned an Alpine for over 10 years.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor MP3 support, September 23, 2009

By	M. Furniss "Mofobaru" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Alpine, how about you hire an engineer who can compile a proper MP3 codec for your reciever? Really, this thing sucks -it can hardly play ANY MP3 files at all. iPod support via USB? Nope. Firmware upgradable? Nope. Returned it and got a JVC, which works beautifully? Yes.