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<blockquote data-quote="sparky33" data-source="post: 2068717" data-attributes="member: 570038">First question - Have you ever tried a Music Keg with the VOIT software?&nbsp; I&#039;m happy you like your headunit, but after reading this review I must say the Kenwood version of VOIT (mCD) doesn&#039;t sound too great:<a href="http://www.crutchfield.com/S-21szfdISFpW/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=300&amp;amp;tab=review&amp;amp;i=113KDCX890#Tab" target="_blank">http://www.crutchfield.com/S-21szfdISFpW/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=300&amp;amp;tab=review&amp;amp;i=113KDCX890#Tab</a>&quot;Does not adequately replace the Kenwood KegWritten by Chris, CO on May 18, 2006I bought this because I love the Kenwood Music Keg but they&#039;re discontinued. This is the obvious and logical next step, USB hard drives.Kenwood COMPLETELY FAILED at transferring the functionality to this unit. Not only does the browser take forever, but it forces you to use only one of the categories. You can&#039;t scroll to Foo Fighters and then choose among their albums, You have to pick one album and go to it. Then if you want to listen to their next album, you can&#039;t just hit next, you have to do a complete new album search. It&#039;s completely non intuitive. If you&#039;re in album mode and hit next album it takes you to the next album alphabetically, instead of the next album by the artist you&#039;re on. If you switch to artist mode it takes you to the next artist. Using any of these modes takes you to playlist #1, all music, so you can&#039;t just switch to playlist mode and find the next album. Oh and to top it all off, they disable alphabetical browsing in playlist mode, so actually using playlists is impossible if you have more than say, 20. It forces you to do a search for every album you want to hear.Then to top it all off, they removed direct playlist access, which the Keg had as a fallback in case you happened to memorize which playlist number was assigned to a particular disc. I could get to my most played discs in less than one second on the keg, with this head unit I have to cycle through search categories, then wait for it to slowly plod through the alphabet and then hit next disc over and over till I find the right album.I hate it. Sound Q is good, browsing isn&#039;t. &quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sparky33, post: 2068717, member: 570038"] First question - Have you ever tried a Music Keg with the VOIT software? I'm happy you like your headunit, but after reading this review I must say the Kenwood version of VOIT (mCD) doesn't sound too great: [URL="http://www.crutchfield.com/S-21szfdISFpW/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=300&tab=review&i=113KDCX890#Tab"]http://www.crutchfield.com/S-21szfdISFpW/cgi-bin/ProdView.asp?g=300&tab=review&i=113KDCX890#Tab[/URL] "Does not adequately replace the Kenwood Keg Written by Chris, CO on May 18, 2006 I bought this because I love the Kenwood Music Keg but they're discontinued. This is the obvious and logical next step, USB hard drives. Kenwood COMPLETELY FAILED at transferring the functionality to this unit. Not only does the browser take forever, but it forces you to use only one of the categories. You can't scroll to Foo Fighters and then choose among their albums, You have to pick one album and go to it. Then if you want to listen to their next album, you can't just hit next, you have to do a complete new album search. It's completely non intuitive. If you're in album mode and hit next album it takes you to the next album alphabetically, instead of the next album by the artist you're on. If you switch to artist mode it takes you to the next artist. Using any of these modes takes you to playlist #1, all music, so you can't just switch to playlist mode and find the next album. Oh and to top it all off, they disable alphabetical browsing in playlist mode, so actually using playlists is impossible if you have more than say, 20. It forces you to do a search for every album you want to hear. Then to top it all off, they removed direct playlist access, which the Keg had as a fallback in case you happened to memorize which playlist number was assigned to a particular disc. I could get to my most played discs in less than one second on the keg, with this head unit I have to cycle through search categories, then wait for it to slowly plod through the alphabet and then hit next disc over and over till I find the right album. I hate it. Sound Q is good, browsing isn't. " [/QUOTE]

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