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So, I decided to hook up my laptop via my KCA 121B AI interface cable to my Alpine 9833. I did this because I am gearing up to install a complete car-computer - I dislike the word Carputer for some reason - and I wanted to gauge the sound quality of mp3s played through a phone-to RCA-to AINet connection. First, let me tell you that I definitely took into consideration the fact that the laptop only had a headphone jack and not a true Output like a good quality sound card or even ac-97 onboard sound. That in mind, the quality was absolutely incredible. Very negligable loss in quality! I would be perfectly happy with this quality now, if it gets better with the actual car computer I install, hell yeah! Just wanted to give ol' 9833 a shout out and let every one know how good of a job Alpine did with the Aux. That, plus the file search feature and the 512 adjustable color display, make this HU real hard to beat.

 
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yep, I have the same hu. I love it, but I should have spent the extra bucks to get the 9835 w/ the black/white display. Oh well, same features... Can't complain.

 
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i have a 9831, with the rca--AiNet cable. i have a delphi xm roady2 runnin through it, the sound quality is really really good. and xm is good. its all good.

 
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Not me. I love the blue display. The user 12 and blue on higher contrast match the factory 04 dash display unbelievably well! The biolite display is good against glare but my HU is relocated to above the cupholders, no glare there anyway.

 
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^^yeah, the stock deck position sucks, esp with the tilt face. no use for it

 
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Oh yeah, did I mention how well the tilt face accomodates me with my relocation

 
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so you guys with the 9833, the display is blue? are all the 9833's blue display with black surrounding (plastic part)

 
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you suck..j/k

 
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HAHA, At least someone got to use it, right? Still a pretty kick-*** HU.

 
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so, with the 9833, do you have to program in all the names of titles and text for every cd for all the songs? because i have not played one cd, bought or burned, that as shown the band name or song titles yet. (i've listened to about 5 cds so far) thanks

 
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I dont know for shure, but I read that it reads ID3 tags on mp3/wma files, in order for them to display you need to use a program such as Nero that has the abbility to burn that info onto the disk and the HU should read it automaticly, I have a Sony Explode (Old one) and that is how it displays on mine...

 
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Yeah, it reads ID3 only from MP3 or WMA SHlomo, you have to hold down title and title the disc manually on regular cds. The mp3s are near CD quality though, so I mostly use those.

 
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oh, ok, i just figured it would read professional cd's as well. guess not

 
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It will if they were encoded with CDText...but very few CDs are.

 
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i have the 03 model (9813) awesome awesome awesome hu!!!!!!