Re: MP3 player, new tires

From: Matt Brenneke (mbrennek@umr.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 12:25:51 EDT


Ken,

I have to agree with Larry on this one. I've got a friend who recently
hooked up his 40GB ipod to his F-150 and it looks and sounds very nice.
  He wrote up the whole process at
http://kelvin7.net/ipod/
It's 4 pages long, and covers all the bases. I plan on doing the same
thing to my Dakota and 15GB ipod this summer when I've got the time and
money.

-Matt Brenneke
'04 CC SXT
http://web.umr.edu/~mbrennek/Truck/Truck.html

On Jun 2, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Larry L Athey wrote:

>
> In all honesty, an in-dash MP3 player is more of a novelty than
> anything else because of their limited capabilities. If you want an
> MP3 player in your truck, simply get a regular in-dash stereo that has
> an auxillary input and get a portable MP3 player that has a hard drive
> in it. Hard drive based MP3 players don't skip or suffer other shock
> related oddities. You can only store 700 megabytes of MP3s on a CDR,
> hard drive based MP3 players with a 20 Gig hard drive are relatively
> cheap and you can get about 500 complete CDs on one of those using
> 128K encoded MP3s.
>
> Ken Allgood wrote:
>
>> Ok,the bad
>> On my way back from Delaware on Sunday, I get back in my truck at a
>> rest
>> stop, swap CD's, player scans it, kicks it back out.. uh oh... try
>> another
>> CD, same thing.. ARRGGHHH. This CD deck actually did this exact same
>> thing
>> when it was brand new (parents bought it for me when I was out of
>> country).
>> When I got around to fixing it originally, had no receipt, but
>> Kenwood was
>> cool about it, and gave me a one-time repair warranty. So anyway, my
>> CD
>> player looks to be fubar. Well, guess I cannot complain after 7
>> years of
>> flawless CD playback :-) Think I'm going to get an MP3 player
>> instead of
>> just a CD receiver, any suggestions or ones to avoid? I'm partial to
>> Kenwood (Ken Would, get it? *groan*), but I'll consider other brands.
>> I
>> have a Sony eXplode in my Probe, and while the function of the
>> flip-down
>> keyless display is sweet, the blue/red color on that thing is ugly,
>> and it's
>> ultra high treble and ultra low bass, with 0 mid-range, EQ on that
>> thing is
>> a nightmare to set, but love the remote :-)
>> Ok, the good, well, kinda. Dropped $400 at tirerack.com to get some
>> Pirelli
>> Scorpion Zero's 255/60R15's, those will replace the well worn BFG T/A
>> 255/60R15's that are currently on there. Should get those and have
>> them on
>> Friday or Saturday.
>> So, guess there's another ton of cash I'm dropping into the Dakota
>> once
>> again.. These things are money pits ya know :-)
>> Ken Allgood
>> 97 CC SLT 5.2L



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