Johnny E

I'm looking to buy a cheap one for my van, not bothered about it being a 'good named' just one that works.
Has one one got one and what are they like?

jezp

halfords have just got some new sony's in that are excellent vfm

CD Players Sony MEX-BT2500 CD Player from Halfords Price £149.99 Free Store Fitting

i assure you, you will not find better for less

jezp

oh and front mounted auxillary is great if you have an ipod aswell

Johnny E

Nice one I will drive past one tomorrow

jezp

they might not have them in the audio boards yet as there brand spanking so get a ripspeed member to get you one out the back to look at

Merv

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These look quite good ebay 150104906217

RLE

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I looked at the stereo option but plummed for one of these. Great unit and fitting was straight forward. Nice and discreet and sounds perfect (incoming/ outgoing).

Worth a thought unless you are after a new head unit as well.

Johnny E

Sounds good but what is it?

RLE

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Mmmmmm.....the cryptic approach has you interested

Link would have helped. Sorry.

eBay.co.uk: Parrot CK3200 Bluetooth LS Colour Screen (item 270103691842 end time 04-Apr-07 22:47:18 BST)

swampster

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Well I have the Sony MEX-BT5000 and I have to say it's excellent, all of the reviews I have read say the same as well. The bluetooth works perfectly, either of my phones just synch with the head unit when I get in or out of the car and the sound clarity from the built in mic is spot on, not had any complaints from people saying they can't hear me etc and that's even while driving a noisy scoob quite hard. I've found it also "just works" with whatever phone I've used.

Also like the A2DP bluetooth music streaming, just load up the phone with MP3's (limited by the memory card size) and stream them to the HU.

Many of the reviews I have read also highly rate this unit for audio quality when compared to other units in a similar price band, an interesting feature that I like was the BBE MP, which dynamically "reworks" MP3's to fill in the audio caused by lossy compression.

The only downside that I can see with this unit is the lack of a single bass & treble control, with these features being taken care of than the more than adequate EQ.

On top of that it looks good as well

WHEELSHOP0_0

Johnny if U are looking for a real budget alternative, Tevion do a cheap version, full bluetooth(V1.2) and aux input for MP3 etc, should be around £80.00, if its just for a van and U dont want an expensive H/U it may do the job.

HTH.