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Panasonic CQ-RX400N CD MP3 USB Player With Aux In
Panasonic CQ RX400N
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| review | good | 6/14/2008 4:35:57 AM |
rating:  review by: Adam Smoth | Another £20 on the price of the unit below this one and again, you get an increase in function. However you do not get any significant increase in appearance of the display. It is still an FL unit but looks a little prettier with an amber backlighting and buttons that now glow in the more sexy and desirable blue LED. Direct connection and control of iPod is the real story and though you can see the ‘Made for iPod’ logo on all the units’ cartons and they work via the System Up connection, the CQ-RX400N can accept an iPod directly into its faceplate-mounted port. It has this USB port hidden under a rubbery covering on the front drop, just above a feature that used to be seen as cool for those with Cassette deck Walkmans, a 3.5mm stereo audio tip-ring-sleeve microjack socket. These days it is used for the audio output of all the ‘other’ digital music players that can send a simple stereo audio signal to be played as an auxiliary item. An Infra Red remote control is included, as is a hard case for the removable faceplate. However, despite saying so in their press release (which we published in the news section) the USB wire is not included – correctly stated in the manual – bijou error, there, then. It has front and rear RCA output sockets on the back but does lack a third set that I would have expected to see as a natural progression to front/rear and Subwoofer or non-fading output – even if they couldn’t include a subwoofer crossover or control system for one within the unit. Although the CQ-RX400N is sold at a lower price than some, as a CD range topper, I would have expected to see some sort of low frequency amplifier feed on there. Perhaps having less space on the chassis would have meant that his would have had to hang out of the back on a cord as before but a subwoofer amplifier will not really be bothered with minor extraneous noise, which tends to be in the higher-than-bass frequencies, so wouldn’t have been much of an issue. In any case an awful lot of amplifiers have pass-though RCA systems these days, so even the lowly CQ-RX200N can feed a shedload of modern amplifiers. | |
