Sony CDX-F7700

CD/MP3プレーヤー: By the mid 2000s Sony had worked out that if a single DIN deck was going to hold anyone's attention, the display had to do something. The CDX-F7700 answers with a full width dot matrix screen that runs animated wallpapers off the IMAGE button and a spectrum analyser stretched across the lot, in that particular Sony blue nobody else quite managed. Behind it is a system deck. Three pre-outs at 4V is the specification that matters here, because 4V out of a 220 ohm source gives an external amplifier something to work with instead of a thin signal you have to chase with the gain knob. Sound shaping runs through EQ7, a seven band equaliser with seven preset curves, DSO to lift the stage off the footwell and onto the dash, and BBE MP, which exists to put back some of what MP3 compression takes out. 52W x 4 from the internal amplifier, CD, CD-R and MP3 discs from the slot, changer control if the boot has room for it, and the whole face swings down on the OPEN button.