Kenwood KDCMP342U WMA/MP3 CD Receiver with Satellite/HD Radio/Bluetooth

Not worth it.
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I had many problems with this unit. First of all, iPod mode (controlling the music through the iPod itself instead of using the unit) is not available for the first generation nano or the touch – it doesn’t say this anywhere except in the user manual, which you can only see after you’ve already dropped the cash. The only reason I chose this model was for the iPod compatability. Controlling the iPod through the player was extremely difficult – if you pressed one button when you still had “search” mode on, the player would switch to radio, or sometimes even turn off. After a week or two of having the unit, buttons became even more unpredictable, doing completely random things. It would distract me while I was driving because I wasn’t able to do even the simplest things, like skipping to the next track, so I would just let it go, playing what I didn’t want to hear or not playing anything at all so I didn’t get into an accident messing with it. The display would sometimes suddenly scramble and not be able to do anything – I would have to turn the player off and restart it. Some days it just wouldn’t turn on in the cold and I’d have to wait until my drive home from work, when the car was warmed up, to use it. Then one day the entire unit shut down on it’s own and I was never able to start it again. I feel it’s reasonable to spend money on a unit and expect to hear music on it, which this unit just didn’t let me do. Let’s hope that it was just a single faulty unit that I was lucky enough to get. I returned it and went for a Sony instead, which has left me much happier!