Alpine CDE-9850Ri CD Player

This head unit is a great buy for any one. Firstly its apine so its going to be good what ever you pay. In my opinion the best head unit maker and i would not buy any other make.

Being an alpine you can change lots of settings to allow you to experience the best sound possible. The options are easy to find and the controls are easy to use. It is also an atractive unit and has a choice of illumination colours to taylor it to your cars interior.

Then comes the best feature about this unit, Its Ipod connection. Now alpine say that this unit is made for the ipod, and they are not wrong!!! Just plug it in and put it some where out the way like a glove box or centre consol. As long as the cable can reach it can go anywhere. Once you are connected the ipod will start to be charged so you don't have to worry about that.

Then comes the clever bit. The alpine head units controls can now control the ipod. You can search play lists, albums, artists and songs all by using the the buttons on the headunit. You can shuffle the whole ipod or selected albums.

This is a top head unit and i highly recomend it to anyone.

Oh yeah and i almost forgot it plays CDs too!!

looks very nice & stylish, one of the best in the market with ipod connector lead. better than sony and pioneer cd players.

Dose everything i need, Little tricky navigating through ipod library but manageable. Very satisfied with this unit. I like the illumination feature (blue or red). Can't fault the sound quality, lots of options for adjusting sound settings.

In all honesty you get what you pay for when it comes to audio from one of the well known brands this being Alpine

This unit is now over 2 years old, but it is still a fantastic unit and worth every penny as far as I am concerned!
It has excellent looks, with an extra feature of being able to change the colour of the buttons, either blue or red, though my preference, the blue looks better. This can even be dimmed down, as the back light is rather bright, and will certainly light up the cabin of your car at night.
The sound from this unit, is perfect, I cant say fairer than that, The Bass engine coupled with a variety of options to change the sound parameters and the great feature of a specific mode for the adjustment of a subwoofer are excellent.
Ipod connection is via a lead which is plugged into the back of the unit, I found that when installing this into my Peugeot 106, it was rather fiddly, I routed this into the glovebox to keep the ipod hidden from preying eyes.

Playing CD's is a doddle as well, simply press a button and the front fascia panel opens, though its not motorized. insert a CD into the slot and away you go! the great thing about it, is that this unit plays MP3 and WMA files from the CD which can be arranged into folders, so finding songs is easy, finding the tracks is pretty simple with the use of the folder up/down buttons and the rotary encoder/volume control. the same method also applies to finding tracks on the ipod itself, though in all honesty the quick search option can be annoying as it simply displays a track number and you have to guess the location of the track, untill its name eventually appears. but other than this finding songs from your ipod is pretty straight forward, once you know what the buttons do, that is. I will also point out that this unit does not have direct access for music tracks, some car audio units, if the number on the front is pressed it takes you to that track number, this Apline unit does not have that feature. rather to using the up/down track skip buttons

Radio - This unit features RDS, and TA (traffic announcement) which pretty much every other unit has these days, but i must say i was impressed at how this unit was able to receive a station which is normally pretty hard to pickup in the area to which I live, but to be honest I don't listen to the radio much

This unit will certainly liven up any car audio system, but to be able to appreciate how good of a unit this is, it is really worth upgrading the rest of the speakers in the car, This unit also features one pre out jack for the connection of an amplifier to power a sub, as well as a remote turn on for the amp. also included is a telephone cable for those with built in car phones, as it mutes the music/ radio and a power aerial connector lead

Again i would like to say i love this unit and it in my opinion, despite its little foibles is worth every penny

one of the must excellent stereos i never have, sound amazing ,easy to use.i havet'n try the ipod yet but i belive i will not be dissapointed

Easy to use with simple menus and great ipod interface. Fantastis sound quality. I have four of these players in different cars so I'm never without one!

absolutely love the player...no need to carry my huge selection of cds around anymore...have it all on my ipod.... sound enhancement and through the roof, compared to my old unit, one thing they could have enabled is, video playing while connected to unit. apart from that, extremely happy with it

The Car stereo is great. it does a good job but the ipod driving menu is complicated. may be i need some time to get used to!!!! it looks nice otherwise.

Does exactly what you want and looks great! i liek how you can change the lights colours. A mate has the better one, but as far as im concerned this does the same things!

Excellent system even with the standard speakers I have in the car. Ipod control isn't the easiest so I leave it on Mix and let it shuffle. If I don't like the song, I fwd it onto the next. The system looks really slick and for a 2 year old system it's still ace! Def recommend it!

Exactly as described in the auction, and very fast delivery.

I chose this item as I have just bought an Ipod, and wanted to use it in my vehicle.

The item description was very accurate, and the seller was very helpful. I would recommend him for future purchases.

Fantastic ebayer well done.......