Clarion DXZ945MP Car CD / MP3 Player
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- MP3 / WMA Playback: MP3 Playback
- Additional Features: Animated Display
- Anti-Theft Protection: Detachable Face Panel
- Player Type: CD
- Controlled Devices: CD Changer DVD Changer TV Tuner
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On Second Thought.
Pros
Sound quality, aesthetics
Cons
Remote, slow interface, mp3 navigation
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
Get a Pioneer instead. Same quality, but better interface.
This head unit is very nice, and filled with features. I've owned it for about half a year now.
The sound quality is very good. It also seems to be built very well (the faceplate is very chunky--likely to do with the touch screen components).
A few problems, though: it's showing its age.
The remote is clunky and hard to use. The buttons are little nubs that have a good feel, but hard to differentiate among unless you're looking.
The mp3 interface on this unit is atrocious. Navigating discs takes forever if you're doing it manually (i.e. not inputting which track you want to go to direct from the remote). You're usually stuck using the somewhat slow touch screen to browse forward and backwards. Consequently, the touch-screen surface area where the que forward and backward buttons are located is starting to wear down a bit--though it's a neat feature. You can only look at mp3 track titles one at a time as they appear on the screen during playback unlike Pioneer's head units (Pioneer's head units allow you to browse through folders and tracks without playing them, and you can see several tracks at a time). It's almost like Clarion added mp3 capability as an afterthought.
Despite having a rich display, graphics are very limited in scope, and background images cannot be uploaded to the unit.
The white pixel display is very nice looking, however, and the choice of graphics is good.
The equalizer display is delayed (badly, even) and subsequently doesn't match the beat of the music playing very well.
I'd grab a Pioneer instead of this, especially for mp3 navigation and graphic eq response.
The sound quality is very good. It also seems to be built very well (the faceplate is very chunky--likely to do with the touch screen components).
A few problems, though: it's showing its age.
The remote is clunky and hard to use. The buttons are little nubs that have a good feel, but hard to differentiate among unless you're looking.
The mp3 interface on this unit is atrocious. Navigating discs takes forever if you're doing it manually (i.e. not inputting which track you want to go to direct from the remote). You're usually stuck using the somewhat slow touch screen to browse forward and backwards. Consequently, the touch-screen surface area where the que forward and backward buttons are located is starting to wear down a bit--though it's a neat feature. You can only look at mp3 track titles one at a time as they appear on the screen during playback unlike Pioneer's head units (Pioneer's head units allow you to browse through folders and tracks without playing them, and you can see several tracks at a time). It's almost like Clarion added mp3 capability as an afterthought.
Despite having a rich display, graphics are very limited in scope, and background images cannot be uploaded to the unit.
The white pixel display is very nice looking, however, and the choice of graphics is good.
The equalizer display is delayed (badly, even) and subsequently doesn't match the beat of the music playing very well.
I'd grab a Pioneer instead of this, especially for mp3 navigation and graphic eq response.
