There is nothing like being able to turn off the radio commercials and listen to digital quality sound. I have had many CD changers and all of them made by Sony. This is because for a long time Sony made the best quality and was the leader in this technology. Today everyone manufactures a high quality unit. In this incarnation I chose an RF or Radio Frequency unit which plays the music through an FM channel on the radio. This was done because car theft likelihood is directly proportional to how good of a stereo is installed in the car. I opted to stay with the limited stock radio cassette deck. The factory speakers are totally inadequate and required replacement with high quality units though. The factory radio is just adequate to drive some medium wattage speakers.
The newer small changers can be installed in the lockable compartment in the trunk area. The older Sony unit I have was a bit large so I mounted it vertically on the passenger side step next to the spare tire cover. Audio and signal leads were run under the panels and kick plates to the dash where the modulator box is placed under the dash. From here it is also easy to plug into the antenna lead and the display panel can be mounted appropriately. In my case I gutted the ash tray, enlarged the rectangle and mounted the display in the hole. I modified the hinges on the ash tray cover (widened them) and this allows the cover to close over the display and hide it. The display has only a power button and an infrared remote is used to control all functions. I would rather have not had the separate remote but it was only RF list mode changer on the market at the time. A list mode changer allows you to program in the names of each CD and the changer will automatically display this name when selecting a CD. This makes it easy to find music. A changer can usually track about 100 CD titles in memory.
Recent models of Sony changers, this one included, do not have Random play modes that function correctly. Many times the changer will play the same songs many times and refuse to advance to the next CD when all songs on a CD have been played once. Previous units I have had performed correctly. All in all the units are skip resistant and fortunately the newer units remember where in a particular song they stopped when you turned off the car. Older units would only remember the song and begin playing the song from the beginning each time the car was started. On short distance driving and long songs you would never get to the next song.
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