Recent content by skye3000

Yes. I was surprised too. It does the same thing when I play mp3's from a usb thumb drive. I only had a CD in it for about 5 minutes before I plugged my drives in so I don't know if a normal audio CD skips or not. The skipping sounds more like jitter. Not a traditional click noise like when a...

I've searched through the forums and I think I already know the answer to my question. I just wanted to get the opinions of some more knowledgeable Stereo guys. I've been away from it for to long. Also I'm new to Alpine equipment and USB Playback. I have a brand new CDA-9886 that I hooked up to...

A conformist I may be. But like I said, for the money I can get way more pmp from Creative than I can from Apple.

hahaha. Good question. I feel that the iPod is over priced for what you get. It's success is based on the fact that people like to be trendy. I don't buy into trends because they usually end up costing you more than just buying what is good. Essentially, I won't follow the herd.

I don't actually NEED 30k songs. I only have 8000 songs. However it is a mere convenience. I already have the drive so I might as well use it instead of buying a 16GB usb memory stick for $40-50. As far as powering the hard drive. I figured the headunit wouldn't power it. I am in the process of...

I just bought an Alpine CDA-9886 with a built in USB port. I tried hooking up my external hard drive that I put together from a 2.5" 40GB drive and a Vantec USB external HDD case. I formatted it to a FAT32 using an HP HDD disk utility. I copied some songs to it and I get "No USB Unit" message. I...