Crutchfield CD Receivers good deal

Quote from radb : Just picked up Clarion cz401 for $93 with Discover card cash back 20=25 or 40=50 your $60 is now $75 so for another $18 out pocket you get new deck! Total cost for me $78 shipped with $25 in free install hardware. There are some other decks like Alpines might be good deal.

I'm glad for you and very nice link NOT!!

Not that I give rat's arse about bonus stickers lol. Someone might score decent deal well then good for you. Crutchfield.com Tried to thumbs down to complicated.

who uses cds anymore?..

What is a cd?

Quote from Unlearn : who uses cds anymore?..

"Basically, if you want true CD quality from the files on your iPod or music server, you must use WAV or AIF encoding or FLAC, ALC, or WMA Lossless. Both MP3 and AAC introduce fairly large changes in the measured spectra, even at the highest rate of 320kbps. There seems little point in spending large sums of money on superbly specified audio equipment if you are going to play sonically compromised, lossy-compressed music on it.

It is true that there are better-performing MP3 codecs than the basic Fraunhöfer—many audiophiles recommend the LAME encoder—but the AAC codec used by iTunes has better resolution than MP3 at the same bit rate (if a little noisier at the top of the audioband). If you want the maximum number of files on your iPod, therefore, you take less of a quality hit if you use AAC encoding than if you use MP3. But "CD quality"? Yeah, right!"

Thumbs up to the OP and down to the dumb replies.

^^ I am totally agree with this. I use FLAC and uncompressed formats for critical music storage and MP3 only for background/free Amazon downloads. I don't know anything about ACC as I don't use and don't support Apple products.

I still use CDs. Good for another 5 years

I get the premise of the deal, BUT....

One of the skimpiest uninformative titles
Confusing as hell opening paragraph, with erroneous/unclear math
Coupon mentioned partway down (not in opening para), so don't know if this is part of overall deal or just that item

Links work!

I add these to help you improve future posts...hopefully.

Alpine 137bt is a lot better.

Anyone without discover card cash back will pay $109 minus $20= $89 I did add 100 crimp connectors to my purchase so numbers might be off. I am planing on using iphone s4 no cd required I do love alpines mucho but clarion offered so much for so little. Checked out Alpine 137bt $219