HD Car Radios - What's Available and What They Cost

HD Radio is a wonderful new digital technologies that AM radio sound as good as today's FM radio and FM radio sound almost as if you're doing a CD. These digital broadcasts not only radically improved audio quality, they also allow more radio channels through multi-casting, and new data services.

As I write this, six manufacturers offer HD Radio solutions for your car. Here is a list of available audio systems in November14, a brief description of each, and some examples of prices.

JVC: The JVC KD KDSHX900 HD is an HD Radio Tuner Receiver with Motorized Slide-Out Face. It has a 256-color OEL display. In addition, the HVC SHX900 Sirius is compatible and has a removable front panel with carrying case and a multi-function wireless remote control. Shop.com has this unit at $ 875.00 price.

Panasonic: The Panasonic CQ-CB890IU HD is a full-featured, in-dash unit, and HDRadio technology and is XM Satellite ready. It has bass, treble, fader and balance controls, and a maximum output of 4 x 50W. It is a text display for XM, CD and HD text. The unit is kg with a wireless remote control and weighs only 5.73. Shop.com has the device with a price of $ 398.99

Sanyo is: At the lower end of which is the Sanyo HD radio (ECD HD1990M) an in-dash HD Radio and WMA / MP3 CD player with front AUX in. It has a removable front panel andFull-function, credit-size remote control car. The power is 50W x 4 The CD deck features motorized CD loading, and playback of CD-Rs and CD-RWs. The display is a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), and there are rotary volume and tone controls. SavingLots.com has this device at an affordable $ 199.95.

Alpine: The Alpine DVA9965 is an excellent all-in-dash stereo, CDs again, plays CD-R, CD-RWs (including discs with MP3 and WMA files are loaded), DVDs, DVD-R andDVD-RW. It sports a Fold-down, detachable face with vivid BioLite display. While the unit is no internal amplifier (with an external amplifier is required), it has a built-in HD Radio tuner, and is both XM and Sirius ready. Digitalphoto.com has this unit at $ $ 1092.50 price.

Kenwood HD tuner: The Kenwood EZ700SR is a lightweight, compact, high performance AM / FM / HD radio and CD player with a full dot matrix display with white LED backlighting. It's CD section can play both CD-Rs and CD-RWsand it plays both MP3 and WMA files. This unit provides selectable red or green illumination color and has a built-in Sirius Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio comes with an antenna. The price is $ 314.95 for audio-warehouse-express.com.

Eclipse HD tuner: This HD tuner, the HDR-105 is a compact 6-19/64 1-7/16 6-29/32 ". It's just a tuner, and needs to be an Eclipse amplifier. The device should be simple, with these Eclipse products: VN5435 installCD8455, CD8445, CD5435, CD5425 and CD5415. Cardomain.com lists the Eclipse HDR-105 tuner for $ 449.95