My previous post was all about me getting some free stuff. This one is most certainly not. I am now the prowd owner of a new Alpine CDA-9847 Yep, I finally decided to drop some cash on an MP3 deck for my car. I was fed up with using my ancient portable CD player and tape deck. The CD player was my first ever. I probably got it in about 94 or 95. It doesn’t have any skip protection and it’s never been cleaned. Add to that it was being routed through a crappy tape adapter which only worked halfway. I had to fumble with the cord to get it to play through both channels and sometimes it would fade in an out. All around annoying.

To fix the issue, I dropped $250 on the new deck and installation hardware. I even managed to put it in myself in about 2 hours without blowing my car up or breaking anything. I was surprised at how smooth it went considering I’d never ventured into the car audio world.

I wasn’t initally going to buy the deck I did. I was looking at a JVC deck because of its front aux input. I was thinking when I eventually got an iPod I could’ve connected it directly to the front instead of using FM modulation. I’ve heard that the sound isn’t that great when using those type of things.

Anyway, I picked up the deck I did because it has a port for a special iPod box. I wasn’t too pleased to hear that the box will cost me an extra $99, but once I get that, it will let me connect my iPod to the deck directly. The real cool thing is you can control the iPod right from the deck AND it charges. So there’d be no need for a car charger.

That being said, now I just need to save the cash up to buy an iPod. Hopefully I can do that in the next few months, but we’ll see. I’ve got a few other things I’d like to buy and some other big bills coming not to mention my normal fill of monthly stuff. The good thing is I’m actually able to put some money away. It really is sad how much I make. I think I’m worth more