A little late to this thread, buy here's my setup:

I have a 2-din Mustang so I have an old Alpine CD player and my empeg. The reason for the Alpine was so I could listen to the radio and play CDs on the way home from the store (nothing more frustrating than walking out of a store and having no way to listen to your new purchase). As it turns out, though, I NEVER listen to the radio. I don't even know what stations are good here: I've had the empeg ever since I moved. And I don’t listen to CDs either. I think I've purchased most of my music online so even the "listen on the way home" scenario hasn't really happened. In fact, I got a rehearsal CD from church a couple of weeks ago, plopped it into my CD player on the way home, and found out that my CD player was not longer working (or not well, anyway. It keeps cutting off). I hadn’t tried it in over six months so I have no idea what happened. Nor do I care anymore!