Suggestions on new CD player for boat.

I'm looking to replace to the stock Clarion CD player in my boat. Basically, it's POS. I've already replaced it once under warranty due to skipping and refusing to play the cd altogehter. And this one just skips if the CD is not in perfect condition. And to begin with the CD player just is not of high quality. Hence, I am looking at replacing it. I want to get a good quality CD player at a lower price so I'm looking at eBay. I was wondering about your guys experiences with this, and how the CD player will fit into the CD "bay". I'm looking ot getting one of these from this eBay store: http://www.stores.ebay.com/wwwikesoundcom/plistings/list/all/dept2/index.html. Any suggestions in buying and replacing one for the boat ('01 X-Star)?

Get XM it kicks!! no messing with cd's period..works everywhere

I have a SONY CDXMP70X in my boat. Added a Sony CDX757MX 10 disk player and love it. The skip protection works well and it is XM ready. A little more $$ but I think well worth it in the long run.

I'm gonna replace my pos clarion deck with a kenwood, alpine, or sony. I need music to listen to when we aren't underway. It'll cost waaay too much to have music play / be heard while riding! And the 9 to 20 bucks a month to listen to satellite music isn't worth it to me.

Id go with a sony but more than half of the CDX-MP70 ive used have gone bad, best way to go is CDX-M630 or CA700x(or 710). Never had any problems with either. Both work with the wired remote, xm ready, the 10 disc anti skip changer 757MX

i'm going to get the pioneer DEH-3500, it looks awesome and i've heard great things, pretty good value too.

i highly recommend cd/mp3 decks. I have a kenwood and two JVC decks and they all work great. and approx 10 hours of music per cd can't be beat! better than XM because you decide exactly what you want to listen to.

I love pioneer head units but whatever you do get a mp3/cd player.

MP3 sounds like someone raped my cd player before it started playing, there is alot of music skipped

The Clarion you are talking about is crap, but that is not their Pro Audio line which is one of the best sounding head units out there.

The best sounding low dollar head unit I have heard is actually the Clarion Pro Audio lines, 501, 601 and 701. The 601 and 701 have dual 32 bit which you usually only see on high stuff. I tried out a lot of head unit including the $ 1,200 copper chasis Sony CDX 90???, the 16v pre-out Eclipse, and the most expensive Pioneer Premier that shop had and kept going back to the cheaper Clarion after trying the above for several days in my system.

Caveat, I have since gone to a Nakamichi 700 and a McIntosh 404 which may be going into my new car instead of the boat. Both of these are by far the best sounding units I have heard or used.

What about blaupunkt? I'm confused on the brand. It seems to be higher priced.. so I'm thinking better quality. But I see it continually for lower than the list price? Has anyone had any experience with the brand. I'm thinking about getting the Casablanca 51.

I just got a pioneer premeir deh p740mp off of ebay for a little over $200 for my truck. I love this head unit. For the money, you can't beat it.

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jon, don't encode your mp3's at 64 man.

I am pretty certain you could not tell the diff between 128+ mp3 and cd while the boat is running. when standing still it is still negligible due to background noise, wind, etc.. trade off is negligible and well worth the convenience.