well im in the market for a new cd player my blaupunkt that i bought 2 weeks ago had some problems like having to have the volume at 55 out of 66 just to hear the music, it gets really hot like i burnt my finger hot and the bottons are all funky. so i was looking at a panasonic cq-dfx983u here the pic

here some specs
detachable, fold-down, Day and Night face
High Definition 3-D Dot Matrix display
spectrum analyzer
plays both MP3 and WMA files — for greater compressed audio flexibility
Alphatuner V
18 FM/6 AM presets
seek tuning
Super High Definition Bass
Sirius Satellite Radio controls
auxiliary input
MOSFET50 internal amp
5-volt front, rear, and subwoofer preamp outputs
low-pass filter
wireless remote
clock
25 watts RMS/50 peak x 4 channels
CD frequency response 20-20,000 Hz
CD signal-to-noise ratio 96 dB
FM sensitivity 10.2 dBf
2-year warranty
i can get it for $249.99 doe sit sound good?

Thats a great HU if you wanna go Panasonic. My friend has the model before that one in his Cavi and he loves it.

hey great choice..i think i have the step down...its the mp3 one but w/ out the screen features...i tell ya one thing...at night...it is really really really BRIGHT!!!! its crazy how bright it is....anyways i am having very good results w/ the panasonic...i thinik ill stick with them for a long time...very good choice....check around on shopping.yahoo.com before you spend big bucks at a different place...they have some cheap stuff on there...

The panasonic is beautiful. Take a look at the JVC'* too if you are looking around they are great decks

yeah jvc is nice. my girlfriend and i had jvc cd players in our cars and they were nice but then they got stolen and now she got a alpine (insureance paid for) i got nothing (i got plpd) so im looking for a new one. my friend just got one of those touch screen panasonics its nice but he has to take it back cuz sub pre outs dont work.

They are nice i was looking at decks tonight and i actually bought one. I was considering a panasonic, it had Mp3 and red lights to boot, but no funky screen, although thats not important to me, however it cost a little more, and didn't have as good of a tuner as the one i bought. Plus i've used this exact one myself when i installed it in a 91 firebird. The panasonic i could afford with mp3 had blue lights, although some nice nice blue lights on that too, one spanning the bottom of the unit letting it out the bottom. If the lights weren't red in the car i woulda bought it


RFX 9000 MP3/CD player

It has wireless remote capability and i'm 99% sure i can get this adapter http://www.virtualoutlook.net/Products/steer.htm
and it will work with this HU. If not, well i still have some neat lights on my steering wheel at night!

Let us know bout the hook up for steering wheels and such.. I may go that route.. but still want to keep the stock HU for I dont' want to get my car broken into again.. or at least till I have done the subs , then the alarm .. then I will consider the plain view stuff like HU

It might be a couple months before that, i told my parents this wa the only thing i would get for the car besides a bra for protection on the highway and too keep my immaculate front end immaculate, not to mention those damn college parking lots i'll be in. This thing has a removable faceplate with a nice carrying case for the headunit, They have some very nice hiding headunits as well. I know blaupunkt has a special sytem where if the card you have like a credit card isn't inserted it doenst work no matter what. If you get your deck stolen but you have your faceplate then it'* not expensive thing to replace, and ALWAYS have a quality head unit before subs....