For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

Ok guys,

I mean In Car Entertainment.

I saw from aldi a car stero for £50, it is in their special buy section, what I need to know is, is it any good/worth it?

I am looking for a new stereo for the car and I would like something that plays MP3s from cd, but I can't afford a lot of money.

ik

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

cant see you being robbed at that price , i have had tevion stuff before and it has been fine , mind you , make sure you are there early ;) :D :D :D

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You get what you pay for so I wouldn't expect amazing sound or build quality, but for 50 quid you can't really go wrong if it reads mp3's off a CD.

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

To play mp3s, you won't find anything cheaper. Like Bifta says, you get what you pay for, but hard to beat the value.

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I like the look of that :)

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typical female response , it looks nice :rolleyes: ;) :D :D :D :D

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Think of it as one of those dvd players for £30 that play anything that you throw at it.

Go for it :)

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

For the money I cant see you going far wrong with that m8

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I've bought quite a lot of things from Aldi - computer stuff, power tools, food, wine - it has always been good value for money. They also are very good if something has to be returned.

- go for it - like PY666 said, though - get there early, there is usually a queue of 10 to 20 people outside ours on a Thursday, waiting for it to open, so they can bag a bargain.

- as an alternative, if you still have a cassette player in the car, next week they have a portable cd/mp3 player, including a car kit, for £17.99.

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

Is that not the most important thing :D

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4 x 40 watt RMS power output
Anti-shock 40 sec CD & 120 sec CD MP3
MP3 with ID 3 Tag
Sounds pretty good to me, with standard speakers and no sound proofing you would be hard pressed to tell it apart from a £200 unit. And it has enough power to work in a car with 4 speakers and two tweeters quite fine.
Id go for it, its not going to blow you away but for everyday listening its spot on. ;)

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

I wonder if it can take a certain cable that can make the LCD show up on my dash like my current standard car one

ik

But I am seriously tempted

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

I doubt it will taker a cable, I guess you probs have a vauxhal car, you can get special replacement steros that support in dash displays but they cost.

The ALDI Stereo is something I was looking at, but unfortunatly a baseball bat weilding suited man turned up ath the door tonight and demanded £400 so im kinda skint so wil lbe giving it a miss. IT also has pre amp outs, ready for yuor big boom box, if your that way inclned... let me know how you get on, i know a little aldi where i may still be able to get one next week.

On another note, there fly screens for windows seem good, im gonna get one for 99p wil lstop those pesky hornets flying in here all the time..

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

might be a rover ;) , baseball weilding meatheads :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

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Actually, I have a Seat Leon.

ik

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You can get a cable for Sony and Pioneer stereos but not for the one from Aldi, sorry

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i used to have a seat, and the display looks just as good without the radio information......

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

well I bought one today, £50 can't grumble, I will try to get it installed, or install it myself next week when I am off work.

after about a week of playing with it, I will report back

wish me luck

ik

Re: For all you ICE gurus, is this any good?
 

assuming your car is relatively new , and the headset connections are not weird , you may well find it just plugs straight in without a problem :)

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I couldn't go get one :mis:

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sorry it took so long

But this stereo is good.

it plays CDs very, in fact it plays MP3 CDs even better IMO.

I have the Massive Attack 4 albums on one CD in MP3 the albums are stored in there own directories and this is no probs for the player.

I just wish Real Radio would have a stronger signal, as sometimes it is not a good signal. other than that, it plays and sounds great.

Now to get a fascia for the space at the sides of the stereo because it is a DIMM 1, and the default player was a DIMM 2.

ik