Panasonic CQ RDP383

Influenced by the other 3 owners reviews, I set about researching a Panasonic CQ RDP 383 for the new car I was getting two weeks ago. I saw it initially at £100 + £10 delivery online, but I took a quick look in the latest Argos catalogue as saw it was £150 with free fitting at a garage of your choice. Not being the most technically minded, and not wanting to mess up the installation, I was going to opt for this. I asked the Car dealers to quote me a price for it as well?. "yep we can do it for £150 in your new car" hmm hoped they would undercut it. Anyways due to a mix up in the price for my car, I stuck to my guns and demanded that ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the first products that I have bought directly as a result of a dooyoo recommendation (thanks to BenGee for an excellent review). I have an old Clarion tape deck in my Peugeot 205 which was seriously beginning to show its age, the main disadvantage being that it played tapes and the reception was so gone that only radio 1 and vibe 101 were the only FM stations that it could pick up and medium wave reception was pretty awful. So having got fed up of the Sara Cox breakfast show very quickly I started looking for alternatives. First I tried using a CD to tape converter and personal CD player in the car. This was OK until the car started moving and ...  Read the complete review

Sections: 1. Introduction 2. Installation 3. Appearance 4. Radio 5. CD Playback 6. MP3 Playback 7. Anti theft 8. Value-for-money 9. Conclusion 1. INTRODUCTION I bought this MP3-CD head unit as a replacement for the cassette deck that came with my Peugeot 205. These were my main reasons for upgrading: · Time and effort required making new tapes. · Inability to skip through songs · Inconvenience of using cassette adaptor ? volume changing when switching back to radio mode. · Sound lost clarity at higher volumes. I was looking for a player that met the following requirements: ...  Read the complete review

Thanks to BenGee for his sterling review of the Panasonic CQ RDP383 which prompted me to get one too. I think it is sensible to get the mid-range CQ RDP383 which is around £30 less than the bottom-of-the-range Kenwood or Sony without losing out to them in terms of features. Also I am a fan of the rotary knob which implements vol/bass/treble/fader/balance very well (push in to select). One minor grip is that there doesn't seem to be a way of skipping lots of songs at a time, if you have a folder with 100 songs and you want song 50, you have to press the FWD button 50 times. On my Philips MP3 stereo system there is a 1 and 10+ song skip so song number 50 is simply 5 ...  Read the complete review