One of my coworkers got a Rockford Fosgate MP3-CD player, and it was actually pretty decent compared to what you've described. Not too expensive, either.


I had both the awia cdcmp3, and the sony mpx450 before I could affors an empeg. I was fairly happy with the aiwa, but traded it in with my jetta only because it didn't match the dash lights in my new car at all (looked pretty good on the old green VW dashes). I was most unthrilled with the sony. No id3 tags, only the first 8 letter of the file name, and it used to overheat constantly. For the $300 I paid for it, it was well worth the money.