I am planning to buy either of these two head units.

panasonic Cq dfx683 - £ 130

panasonic Cq dfx783 - £ 170

has anyone got any complaints or comments about these two head units?

anyone seen them cheaper elsewhere?

I am fitting them to a Renault Clio btw.


Any advice would be appreciated.

Hampton

"G Hampton" wrote in message
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I am planning to buy either of these two head units.

panasonic Cq dfx683 - £ 130

panasonic Cq dfx783 - £ 170

has anyone got any complaints or comments about these two head units?

anyone seen them cheaper elsewhere?

I am fitting them to a Renault Clio btw.

Sorry cant help with the head unit.. got the CQDFX383 in my van, but it's a
good unit even if it is the lowest of the mp3 head units panasonic do.

BUUUUT, i'm fitting a remote stalk to my van to controll the stereo, and the
stalk i've used came out of the renault clio.. 2000 model i think (it's the
rounded stalk)
i got it from the scrap yard, and now i need an adaptor to enable me to use
the clio's stalk with the panasonic stereo.. no probs as thy're readibly
available.. except to order one i need to know which stereo was in the car i
got the stalk from.. scrap yard cars have their stereo's removed as soon as
they come in.

Does your clio have the origional stereo without the remote display by any
chance??

basicaly i've found out that the remote stalk is the same.. fitted to
clio's, laguna's, kangoo's and so on, and on some from about 1996 onwards,
it's just the connector on the end that's different for the different cars
and stereo's,
so i got a couple of different connectors off other scrapped clio's, but i
still dont know which plug belongs to which stereo,

i've made a web page up showing the connectors i have,
http://www.kampenwagen.co.uk/stereo%20remote.htm
anychance when you pull your stereo, you could tell me if one of the
connectors shown on that page match, and if so what stereo you have please??


i think i need to use the white double row connector.. like an ISO connector
but with 2 more pins, as i think that's from a clio that had a blaupunkt
stereo in it, with no remote display, but i cant be 100% sure, and no one
who sells the adaptors is willing to get off their arses and look at the
packet the adaptor is in and tell me what kind of socket it has to take the
stalk plug,

it seems to confuse the hell out of them that i'm fitting a stalk to a van
that never had a stalk fitted in the first place, they keep asking me for
the make of stereo in my van.. which is a panasoinc.. it never had one
before.. then they say 'but it must have had a stereo origionaly to have a
remote stalk fitted' at that point i run around the room screaming and they
hand up.

"G Hampton" wrote in message
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I am planning to buy either of these two head units.

panasonic Cq dfx683 - £ 130

panasonic Cq dfx783 - £ 170



where have you seen the 683 for 130?

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well 140 including delivery
www.bassjunkies.com


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"G Hampton" wrote in message
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I am planning to buy either of these two head units.

panasonic Cq dfx683 - £ 130

panasonic Cq dfx783 - £ 170



where have you seen the 683 for 130?

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well 140 including delivery
www.bassjunkies.com


ah ok.

any reason youre not looking at the CQRDP383 for 100 inc delivery from the
same place?

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well 140 including delivery
www.bassjunkies.com




oh, and how did you get delivery for 10 quid? the "details" page reckons its
12.50.

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oh yeah so it is....yeah it came to 142 quid or sumthin.

although the 383 is prob a good head unit, I am willing to spend another 40
for the 683. Just cos I have the extra money. Btw..I read in some
american reviews that the 683 and the 783 have slow folder loading aswell
and they suffer from some problems. Chances are that the 383 is also gonna
have these problems.

check this link for the review of 783 and then find the 383 for yourself.

http://www.epinions.com/content_110310887044


wot u gonna go for then?


hampton



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well 140 including delivery
www.bassjunkies.com




oh, and how did you get delivery for 10 quid? the "details" page reckons
its
12.50.

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"G Hampton" wrote in message
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although the 383 is prob a good head unit, I am willing to spend another
40
for the 683. Just cos I have the extra money. Btw..I read in some
american reviews that the 683 and the 783 have slow folder loading aswell
and they suffer from some problems. Chances are that the 383 is also
gonna
have these problems.


well a friend of mine just got his 383 and says that there are no pauses
between tracks. i trust his opinion since we both saw the sony unit that WAS
slow together. im not sure about initial loading though.

anyways, cheers for the heads up. 100 quid for a panasonic mp3 player isnt
that bad, esp considering the car its going in!

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"G Hampton" wrote in message
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well a friend of mine just got his 383 and says that there are no pauses
between tracks. i trust his opinion since we both saw the sony unit that
WAS
slow together. im not sure about initial loading though.

anyways, cheers for the heads up. 100 quid for a panasonic mp3 player isnt
that bad, esp considering the car its going in!

i've got hte 383, not installed it yet (still trying to figure out which
adaptor box i need to work with the stalk i got, and i want to do it all in
one go as the dash is coming out when i fit the stalk and stereo)

but my brother got the 383 for xmas too, and his is in his car, and seems to
be a good set, takes about 5 to 7 seconds to load the folders it seems,
think he has 7 folders on that disc, and it takes about 1 second to go from
one folder to the other,

Anyone near Nottingham who wants a panasonic 383 mp3 head unit.. smart car
of beeston are selling them for 89 quid,
they're getting rid of all the car audio stuff it seems, and have a few of
the 383's with the black faces.. usualy one is the chrome face.. i personaly
don't like my chrome face.. anyone got a blace faced 383 and wanted the
chrome one?? swap faces??

In article ,
says...

well a friend of mine just got his 383 and says that there are no pauses
between tracks. i trust his opinion since we both saw the sony unit that WAS
slow together. im not sure about initial loading though.


I had a 113n CD HU. Not bad for the money, but seeing as I paid £99, not
great to what the current MP3 are going for.

Found the tuner a particular strong point on Panasonic HU's and sound
quality wasn't bad for the budget end, without external amps.
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