Kenwood Excelon kdc-X869

[dbdynsty25 10+ year member]

Guys,

After looking around and getting advice from some of you I decided to go with the Kenwood Excelon kdc-x869...and I'm **** glad I did. This deck is head and shoulder above the Panasonic mp3 deck I had previously. It's simply amazing in terms of SQ and customization.

The SQ settings are ridiculous compared to those of the Panasonic. Kenwood puts so much more at your fingertips and allows you to tweak just about anything. The Panasonic was very stripped down and the SQ was just average anyway.

The mp3 playback has been great also. In my Panasonic I always had to rip the cd's with a certain program so I wouldn't get that annoying chirping every once in a while. This was a pain in the *** because anything that I downloaded I had to go and re-rip so it would sound ok. The Kenwood plays anything I throw at it flawlessly. The fact that it reads ID3 tags is another plus that the Panasonic didn't have.

The dual panel is quite attractive and anyone who gets in my car thinks it's badass. It's quite solid too, which was surprising to me. The multiple angles makes it fit in almost any car too.

Overally I'm definately happy with my purchase. It's a great deck at a great price ($320) on ebay from a guy I've done business with before. If you like Kenwoods decks and features, this is a sure bet for your rig.

I definately recommend it.

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[Mindspin311 10+ year member]

I've got one sitting in my room right now waiting to be installed Friday, I can't wait! How do you like the display?

 

[dbdynsty25 10+ year member]

I like it a lot better than my dot matrix display I had on my Panasonic. It's pretty intuitive and you can customize it a thousand different ways. The only problem I have with it is in direct sunlight, but that's pretty much a given with all of the high end displays these days.

 

[Mindspin311 10+ year member]

What can you do as far as customizing the display?

 

[dbdynsty25 10+ year member]

Meaning you can have two lines of text (album, artist, name, filename, id3, etc) , a clock, a spectrum analyzer and the function keys. You can mix and match those for a multitude of choices. It lets you do just about anything in terms of where you want what text to be shown and all that good stuff.

 

[Mindspin311 10+ year member]

Sweet!

 

[Mindspin311 10+ year member]

Well I got mine in today, I love this thing. Its got so many options I have no clue where to start.

 

[Mindspin311 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Jmac I love eXcelons ... Too bad they never go on sale, clearance, etc. around here //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

You should try http://www.etronics.com they seem to have very good prices, the X869 was nearly $100 belowe MSRP on there.

 

[Mindspin311 10+ year member]

Originally posted by Jmac Yeah, but I live in Canada ... So it would be cheaper to buy it here, anyways ...

oh well just trying to help out //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif