Hugo, thanks for pointing me to those videos.

It is in fact so slow I would have assumed it is like that by design, maybe in the effort to look somewhat fun. I can't imagine it HAS to be so slow if browsing the iPod directories looks instead very fast.

Anyway, after reading the user guide, I found out that in order to have the advanced audio features, the Alpine X100 needs to be coupled with the PXA-H100 sound processor, which means € 200 more. Still, that is an optnion Fusion does not seem to have. Audio quality does metter to me, so I am really leaning more towards the Alpine...