| Upper right hand corner of the back window has the XM Radio antenna. | |
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Almost camouflaged by virtue of the fact that it looks factory installed,
the Sony WX-7700MDX is so damn cool, it should be standard equipment on
Nissan's truck.
As you may discern from its girth, we're talking double DIN here. |
| Sony never intended for this to happen. This device is for the Japanese market only, but there is no XM Radio service in the Japanese market. | |
| There's over 700 display colors achievable by adjusting the red, green or blue controls. See example flash demo at: Sony Color Change Demo. | |
| The essentials for any car or truck are included behind door #1: Minidisc
on top (Net MD OK), and CD on bottom (R/RW OK).
The CD is also text enabled. Put in the first CD by Audioslave, and it displays the song titles. |
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Gotta like it when the stereo shop gets creative. People in the back seat get to watch the discs change through the jukebox window of the Sony MDX-66XLP. |
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Minidisc in the front. Minidisc in the back. |
| When the back seat is folded down.
From left to right: Sony CDX-T70MX 10 disc CD changer, Sony XT-XM1 XM Satellite radio receiver, Alpine amp, Sony DVX-100 10 disc DVD changer. Except for the amp, the goods all connect via uni-link, including the XM receiver into the head unit. This receiver was connected to a US market XM head unit previously. The XM station presets remained in memory when the new head unit, the WX-7700MDX, was connected. The stereo shop tells me there is a group function of XM I can't get on the new head unit, but I never used it on the old one, so I'm not concerned. I do have 20 XM presets, and I find the new head unit tunes in XM stations and text details faster than the old head unit. Other info: The monitor is on the ceiling. The amp is extra since the cool head unit has 52W x 4 power. The CD changer serves as a MP3 player. 1000+ MP3's should be enough, and if its not, hey, the 2 Minidisc units in the main cab area also do MP3s. |
I bought the Sony WX-7700MDX from www.melting-pot.com , and I guess you can too.
Oh, by the way, the FM only goes up to 90.0MHz--good if you like jazz and foreign languages. Melting Pot sent me a free converter which pulls in 94.0MHz-108.0MHz which I didn't even have installed, since I have the XM. The AM band is covered, but some stations tune in a couple of digits off the actual station, and these may have a little static as a result.
And last, but not least, Sony has something to say about the unit, but I don't know what Sony is saying: Sony's details on the WX-7700MDX.