Sony MEX-1GP: The Next Generation of Car MP3 Players

Do you think you're sick and tired with the trouble of burning your best MP3s onto a CD-R simply to hear your new music inside your car? With the Sony MEX-1GP, the times of losing time burning CDs are over. You can now drag and drop your best MP3s onto your car CD receiver exactly like you will with your iPod.

For anyone of those MP3 tunes owners, the future of car audio will be lastly here available for you. Long gone are the times in which you had to burn your Songs onto a CD for playback inside your car sound system. Sony not too long ago produced the MEX-1GP CD phone, a CD receiver that additionally includes a built-in 1 GIGABITE flash memory unit. Therefore at this point your car audio CD receiver reacts the identical way as your iPod or some other sort of MP3 player. The ONE GIGABITE flash storage unit could save as much as FIVE HUNDRED of the favorite songs, providing you lots of playback time for your tunes. This small gadget could make even the longest of travels in your car smoother and more exciting, since you won't need to have to bother about changing CDs any more.

In addition to playing MP3s, this specific CD receiver furthermore plays Cd albums (as the label implies) as well as burned CD-Rs and CD-RWs so that people that would like to play their older CDs can continue to benefit from this nifty item. Then again, the genuine magnet to this brand-new car audio head device is the MP3 playability. The flash memory space unit is situated in the removable faceplate. Here resides the USB port which lets you hook up the faceplate to your PC (similar to your iPod or other MUSIC player).

Once the faceplate is linked with your CD, you merely drag and drop the MUSIC files onto the flash memory space unit of the faceplate. Sadly the faceplate is merely appropriate for Windows operating systems, and so all of you Macintosh owners will have to head over to your buddy’s house to duplicate the MP3s to and from the Sony MEX-1GP.

The brand new receiver is also visually attractive to the eye in addition. It is finished in a high-gloss charcoal color and includes a 13-segment LCD screen for uncomplicated navigation of track and title details. The monitor shows record, performer as well as track title while playing your MP3 audio files. Consumers could shuffle or repeat rails, albums or tailored categories by adjustments on the faceplate or with the provided handy remote control. The MEX-1GP unit incorporates a built-in 208-watt power amp and a three-band equalizer granting clear, abundant audio. The selectable rear/subwoofer preamp components, regulates the frequency as well as output degree of an external amplifier.

Immediately after the installation of this receiver and experiencing it for a bit of over a full week, I have to declare i 'm rather happy using this product. First, the sound quality when using MP3s through this specific device is absolutely nothing less than remarkable. In case you didn’t know any much better, you'll believe that you're playing a CD with the highly detailed and crystal clear playback quality of that head unit. Whilst travelling on a 3 hr road journey (three hours each way, 6 hrs total) I was capable to hear one particular group of tracks on the way up and a totally different collection of songs in route back, all with no inconvenience of switching CDs and having a pause in play.

I’m somewhat stunned it needed such a long time for a product such as this to kick the marketplace, specially with the raising reputation of handheld MP3 gadgets like the iPod during the last several years. Even as it might have taken awhile for a item such as this to hit the marketplace, I’m confident Sony will have a lot of competition quite soon, that may benefit car audio fanatics like me.