Any views on this HU?

The old headunit on the mondy (Sony CDXM-600R) has gone wrong and can no longer pickup any radio stations clearly but still plays CD's fine for some reason, so I need to find a replacement. I know its the HU because even with another known good aerial this is no reception, and its giving 12v quiet happily on the Antenna amp cable.

What it needs to do,

Control my Sony MDX MD changer

Have preouts for front and rear speakers because the mondy has a highpower builtin amplifier thats a pain to bypass.

Seen the above HU, but dont know if it has the required number of preouts (2 front and 2 rear) and I can get one for around

Yes , it has 2 pre-outs and an extra output for a sub.

Very nice looking stereo for the money (167.99 from MCS direct)

I See they have the CDX-F7700 for a few quid more, I wonder what the difference is apart from 2W per channel.

Only difference I could see is that the 7700 has 4 volt pre-outs instead of the usual 2 volt.

If you are planning on using it with the factory fit amp then this would be of no use to you.

lovely looking hu,feature packed.

had one for a while (us spec)

would definitely recommend it,

IIRC, my HU is the 7500, fitted by Andy_CCR

Looks pretty good, sounds good and plays radio/CD/MP3s fine. Having the sub-out was very handy for me, too...

Only thing I didn't like was Sony's "movies" on the display - far too distracting. But they're easy enough to get rid off, and leave just the "scope" displays...

Overall, not had any problems. Drives the standard fabia speakers fine, talks to the amp/sub and is plenty loud enough...

You have PM

I eventually ordered a new boxed uk spec one off ebay yesterday (about 5 mins before Jon's PM), came today and cost me

D.S.O. should stand for "Dont Switch On".

On my CD-MP80 it just wrecked the sound.

Does yours have the 7 band graphic equaliser as well as the normal Bass and Treble controls?

Yes, it has the 7 band eq, which can use presets or be customised. The dso seems to make the sound to bright to my ears on anything other than the 1st setting, which seems to improve things ever so slightly.

On mine after much playing about I found that a V shape on the EQ with the top and bottom end up about 4 notches and the midrange at about -3 gave a decent sound with DSO off completely and the "Loud" turned on.

I can then use the normal bass and treble up and down a couple of notches to vary the sound easily for individual cds.

On mine the DSO is on level 2, bass is -9 and the sub is +9

On mine the DSO is on level 2, bass is -9 and the sub is +9

Erm , why?

Actually I take it you are doing this to put all the bass through the sub and not the main speakers?

Do you have High and Low pass filters on the 7500?

So all the bass goes to the sub instead of the main speakers

There is an option in the menu for HPF/LPF but I've not really played with them at all....

Trust me on this , set both the HPF and LPF to the same frequency (I use 78 hz) and then all the bass below that point will only go to the sub and not to the main speakers so they won't distort.

Then set the eq as I described and put both the bass and sub on about +1.

You'll get a noticably better sound.