Got a new head unit and put it in last night. Got me a Sony CDX-GT630UI with a USB port on the front so I can just plug in a jump drive (thinking of putting a tiny external hard drive in there somewhere) and play my music that way.

Took out the old Alpine head unit. Nothing really wrong with it besides the text being worn off of the keys. The Alpine put out 45 watts to each channel and the new one puts out 52 watts. I finally figured out how to change the bass and trebble levels just before I got rid of it. Like I said, nothing really wrong with it, but it couldn’t play MP3 CD’s and was a little dated. Time to replace it with something that can use a jump drive (flash drive), has an auxiliary input and  can play MP3 discs.

I bought the standard adapter at Best Buy (bleh) and spliced the wires in about  10-15 minutes. Swapped out the plugs, pulled out the old unit, dropped in the new one and had me a brand new CD player up and running in less than an hour (including the trip to Best Buy).

Sweet! Was only $150 with tax at Circuit City because they’re going out of business. Good deal I think.

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