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All-About-My-Truck Week: Alpine iDA-X001 Review

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Although my ‘95 Silverado came with a CD player, it was pretty trashed and it needed some work. I decided to push my investment along by purchasing a new deck with Sirius satellite radio, so I could be happy cruising around town. After some research, I settled on the Alpine iDA-X001, which is […]

CES: Alpine’s Project Cars

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Remember CES, that thing that was last week? We wouldn’t know of course, we didn’t go. Instead Sean went and bought a pony, Chuck decided to detail his Ferrari instead of the Lambo, and I redeemed my food stamps for a 12 pack of Schlitz.
I kid. Chuck has a Porsche.
Anyways, one of the big events […]

Alpine’s iPod-In-A-DIN Head Unit

Monday, September 10th, 2007

This relatively-new single-DIN receiver from Alpine takes iPod control beyond the old two-line-LCD by offering a 2.2″ TFT display complete with an almost-like-the-real-thing interface. Jack in your fifth generation or later iPod directly into the IDA-X001 via USB — no additional “interface cable” required — and you have jog-wheel access to your music by […]