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<blockquote data-quote="StarSpeckledSky" data-source="post: 3392865" data-attributes="member: 580955"><p>Wooo! After some more digging, I found just what I was looking for in the <a href="http://www.crutchfield.com/S-AH5Y7IsnJG5/App/Product/Item/Main.aspx?i=105kdg730" target="_blank">JVC KD-G730</a>!</p><p></p><p>All text fields on the display are fixed, meaning there are no options to control what song information is shown. That would seem like a bad thing, right?</p><p></p><p>But get this. The unit itself adjusts what is displayed so you would never need to decide what info the screen should show!</p><p></p><p>When you insert an MP3-CD, it first displays Folder Name (line 2) and File Name (line 3). If any tags are present, after a couple seconds it replaces the display with Album &amp; Artist (line 2) and Title (line 3). Any CD-Text will also be shown in the same way.</p><p></p><p>That means no more annoying "NO TEXT" messages or switching back and forth between display modes if some of your MP3s are without tags, or if some of your CDs are without CD-Text. Maybe modern headunits no longer have that flaw, but it's a welcome change from the behavior of my old one-line Kenwood.</p><p></p><p>In addition, this display seems to show the most information at once out of any I've seen: (1)Clock Time, (2)Folder#, (3)File#, (4)Elapsed Time, (5)Album, (6)Artist, and (7)Title. Considering the text fields allow up to 16 characters to be displayed w/o scrolling -- compared to 11 on the Clarion I tested -- not to mention the alternate <strong>bold</strong> font that makes for easier reading, the JVC KD-G730 could very well have THE best, most informative display for a unit around around $200.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and it has some nice features too. No speaker crossover settings, but its 3-band parametric EQ and the subwoofer rolloff &amp; volume controls are certainly more flexible than the 3-band simple EQ I'm used to.</p><p></p><p>Only beefs I have so far are minor: Loudness compensation is in a menu, while I'm used to having a button for it. The Album / Artist scrolls first, THEN the Title, so it may never scroll through the full Title on short tracks. And oddly, while the volume bar on the display only obscures some of the text, letting what is visible scroll <em>while</em> you make the adjustment, as soon as the volume bar <em>disappears</em>, it resets to the first 16 characters of each line as if it had yet to begin scrolling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StarSpeckledSky, post: 3392865, member: 580955"] Wooo! After some more digging, I found just what I was looking for in the [URL="http://www.crutchfield.com/S-AH5Y7IsnJG5/App/Product/Item/Main.aspx?i=105kdg730"]JVC KD-G730[/URL]! All text fields on the display are fixed, meaning there are no options to control what song information is shown. That would seem like a bad thing, right? But get this. The unit itself adjusts what is displayed so you would never need to decide what info the screen should show! When you insert an MP3-CD, it first displays Folder Name (line 2) and File Name (line 3). If any tags are present, after a couple seconds it replaces the display with Album & Artist (line 2) and Title (line 3). Any CD-Text will also be shown in the same way. That means no more annoying "NO TEXT" messages or switching back and forth between display modes if some of your MP3s are without tags, or if some of your CDs are without CD-Text. Maybe modern headunits no longer have that flaw, but it's a welcome change from the behavior of my old one-line Kenwood. In addition, this display seems to show the most information at once out of any I've seen: (1)Clock Time, (2)Folder#, (3)File#, (4)Elapsed Time, (5)Album, (6)Artist, and (7)Title. Considering the text fields allow up to 16 characters to be displayed w/o scrolling -- compared to 11 on the Clarion I tested -- not to mention the alternate [B]bold[/B] font that makes for easier reading, the JVC KD-G730 could very well have THE best, most informative display for a unit around around $200. Oh, and it has some nice features too. No speaker crossover settings, but its 3-band parametric EQ and the subwoofer rolloff & volume controls are certainly more flexible than the 3-band simple EQ I'm used to. Only beefs I have so far are minor: Loudness compensation is in a menu, while I'm used to having a button for it. The Album / Artist scrolls first, THEN the Title, so it may never scroll through the full Title on short tracks. And oddly, while the volume bar on the display only obscures some of the text, letting what is visible scroll [I]while[/I] you make the adjustment, as soon as the volume bar [I]disappears[/I], it resets to the first 16 characters of each line as if it had yet to begin scrolling. [/QUOTE]
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