JVC KD-SH909 Car CD / MP3 Player
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- MP3 / WMA Playback: MP3 Playback
- Player Type: CD
- Controlled Devices: CD Changer DVD Changer
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Good Deck
Pros
Great mp3 playback, nice looking, longer than average warranty.
Cons
Controls not too intuitive.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Great value for the money. Costs less than an Alpine, but has comparable specs, and sounds great. Buy it, there's no real reason not to.
I've had my KDSH-909 for almost 2 years now, and it's been a great unit. I've used it mostly for playing back discs with MP3s on them. It's handled any CDR I've put in it, and has only had trouble with skipping very, very intermittently when I used an old cheap CDRW. It's 4V preouts makes it well suited for higher end installs. You probably won't need it, but this deck has a built in low pass filter, for filtering out high frequencies to your subwoofers, if you have them.
As far as MP3 playback it handles most everything you could throw at it with the exception of some encoded at a variable bitrate with oddball settings. It handles id3 version 1 tags fine, but doesn't support v2. Not a big deal, it's not like you'll want to read a long song title and info over the lcd anyway. The deck does run a bit warm after extended use, I've driven long trips with it and haven't seen any adverse effects.
One of the nice things about this deck is it's lack of "bling." It's hard to find a nice deck that doesn't have tacky looking screensaver style animations on the LCD. The motorized faceplate is good if you want to mount the deck in a sports car, since the display will face up at you if you want, but won't be much help if you install it in an SUV or pickup truck.
The faceplate is removable, which is probably a good theft deterrent. Mine hasn't broken so far, and I take it off every time I leave my vehicle parked for any length of time.
The only things I'd improve on this deck would be to incorporate a high pass filter into the deck, so if you do have a subbox in your vehicle (like I do), you could cut the bass frequencies to component speakers. Most amps come with at least a low-pass filter anyway, so having it on the deck is redundant. The deck's built in graphic equalizer does let you boost highs to compensate a bit for not having a high pass filter. In the end you'd probably have to buy a separate amp for component speakers if you want it to really sound good with subwoofers. I would also make the controls a bit more intuitive, it takes a while to get used to programming the features on the deck. The built in clock display is much too small for this deck's faceplate. It's there, but it's print is smaller than you'll find on a cheap ladies digital wristwatch.
The deck has a seemingly pointless extra variable volume setting for playing back CD's, which does not work with radio playback. With it you can effectively make your music sound crappy by clipping and distorting.
This deck has a brilliantly fast seek feature for finding radio stations. I've never tried programming in any stations though. The controls to program this deck are confusing and will take some getting used to.
The deck says it has 200 watts of power (50 watts per channel) but this is peak wattage only. Actual RMS is about 76 watts, or 19 watts per channel.
My unit came with a 2 year warranty and I haven't needed it yet.
As far as MP3 playback it handles most everything you could throw at it with the exception of some encoded at a variable bitrate with oddball settings. It handles id3 version 1 tags fine, but doesn't support v2. Not a big deal, it's not like you'll want to read a long song title and info over the lcd anyway. The deck does run a bit warm after extended use, I've driven long trips with it and haven't seen any adverse effects.
One of the nice things about this deck is it's lack of "bling." It's hard to find a nice deck that doesn't have tacky looking screensaver style animations on the LCD. The motorized faceplate is good if you want to mount the deck in a sports car, since the display will face up at you if you want, but won't be much help if you install it in an SUV or pickup truck.
The faceplate is removable, which is probably a good theft deterrent. Mine hasn't broken so far, and I take it off every time I leave my vehicle parked for any length of time.
The only things I'd improve on this deck would be to incorporate a high pass filter into the deck, so if you do have a subbox in your vehicle (like I do), you could cut the bass frequencies to component speakers. Most amps come with at least a low-pass filter anyway, so having it on the deck is redundant. The deck's built in graphic equalizer does let you boost highs to compensate a bit for not having a high pass filter. In the end you'd probably have to buy a separate amp for component speakers if you want it to really sound good with subwoofers. I would also make the controls a bit more intuitive, it takes a while to get used to programming the features on the deck. The built in clock display is much too small for this deck's faceplate. It's there, but it's print is smaller than you'll find on a cheap ladies digital wristwatch.
The deck has a seemingly pointless extra variable volume setting for playing back CD's, which does not work with radio playback. With it you can effectively make your music sound crappy by clipping and distorting.
This deck has a brilliantly fast seek feature for finding radio stations. I've never tried programming in any stations though. The controls to program this deck are confusing and will take some getting used to.
The deck says it has 200 watts of power (50 watts per channel) but this is peak wattage only. Actual RMS is about 76 watts, or 19 watts per channel.
My unit came with a 2 year warranty and I haven't needed it yet.
