How do you know this?

 

Look at the design of the unit. Do ya'll know of any HU that can be put in there in place of it? Of course a secondary one can be fitted down by the bin. Maybe someone will make an install for it, but it'll be a damn weird one. I meant to say "now", I doubt anyhting will be out in the next 6 months either.



When you replace the HU directly you lose CD changer, unless I am mistaked. Plus the stock HU is already pretty cool looking.

 

whoa i didnt realize it has an auxilirary(sp?) input

 

So, if I bought the $350 mp3 player off of ebay -- is this something that would typically be pretty easy to install?

I am assuming that it is one or two cables, a power supply and the signal. I am not too familiar wtih audio installs with cars. Or one cable into the back of the original unit? And the power is daisy chained? How easy would it be to run this cable into the back of the unit? Or would there be an extension off the back of the original unit down near where the MP3 player would go that you just jack into?

I'm no audiophile, although I do like music. I personally can't tell the differnece of a mp3 encoded at 192 and a cd.

I'm trying to determine if it is easy enough to do myself w/o pulling the whole car apart to get in or if it is worth paying the dealer to do.

I have had to do a headunit install on a Nissan and the dash was a puzzle. Each piece interlocked, and I had to start all the way at the passenger floor, across the dash, etc.. etc.. to get the dash off to install the headunit. Are Honda's similar to this?

Added: What do you mean by auxilirary(sp?) Would this be an input on the back of the head unit that would allow one to connect an external source such as the Neo Car MP3 player? That is tempting b/c you can put your own drive in there, and the price of 160gb drives these days, thats very tempting. However, I don't like the idea of the FM Modulator.

 

i dont know very much about the '03 accord audio system, but on the picture it says cd/aux on one of the buttons so im assuming you can hook up anything with rca outputs up to it (including the factory mp3 player) so my guess would be yea, you could hook up a neo to that unit.

by the way speaking of the neo, i have one in my car and i dont know how i ever went without it...maybe ill post up some pics if u wanna see it...
at first i had it installed through an FM modulator, which was pretty crapp sounding, so i upgraded my HU to one w/ an aux. input, and now it sounds as good as cd's if not better.

 

I'm not sure where the input is, but yeah, you can connect something to it. I'm kinda fuzzy as to why Honda made it when thye make their own MP3 player...it would seem people would rather buy aftermarket for better price/performance and hook it up.

 

On the Neo, everything on the drive is MP3s, I am assuming the ability to play the mp3s is on the firmware? So you can easily hook up a bigger drive than factory?

My only hesitation to this is it would be nice to be able to control the MP3 player from the steering wheel -- from the looks of it the Neo has its own interface.

Also, how hard was it to run cable from your neo to your HU? Is it in your trunk?

 

my 300 dollar alpine mp3 player can out perform stock hu any time. but like some ppl suggested, if you want everything to fit and look nicely, go with the OEM mp3 player. on the other hand, if you SQ type of person, get an aftermarket deck when the install kit is available

 

i have the neo unit in the trunk next my amp. it came w/ a lcd wired remote type of thing that you can mount in the dash if you have double din, or you can mount elsewhere. i have that underneath my HU where the pocket thing used to be. from the unit in the trunk i have a set of rca's running to the aux. input on my HU.

oh and yes, you can add a larger hard drive when needed, which i haven't come close to filling up the 20 gigs of space that it came w/.

 

Buy an aftermarket head unit instead for cheaper, or burn CD's. $450 is a waste just for MP3 capability.