i had an older model sony that was burnt out. i bought this radio and it is fantastic!i hooked an mini external hard drive to it and it plays perfectly. ialso like the easiness of the menu. 10 stars out of 5.
I owned before this an older Sony CDX-GT200 and the sound quality difference was astounding! With the highly customizable EQ settings you should be able to make anything sound the way you want it to. I own a 3rd gen iPod Touch and it works well with it, but sometimes its a little screwy, but still works none the less. I haven't tried the external hard drive yet so I'm not sure it works. But a drive formatted in NTFS I don't think will work. The MP3 CD quality is better than my old one, but still not like a true CD as you lose some quality with the MP3 formats in this deck. I wish it had a few more features, like a 10 band EQ setting, rather than a 3 band wave EQ. The subwoofer out setting has an adjustment setting that can control it from -10 to +10 to adjust the loudness appropriately. Overall, its not the quality of a Bose system, but its close.
