Dual XD1222 In-Dash AM/FM CD Player with Front Panel Aux Input and USB Charging Port

• 30 Station presets (18FM/12AM), Auto station store, Preset scan, Auto stereo/mono, Local/distance, Manual tuning, Seek tuning
• 60 Watts peak (15x4), 1.0 DIN chassis, Import ISO/DIN mountable, Electronic volume, bass, treble, balance, fader
• Blue/black dot matrix type liquid crystal display,3 Selectable EQ curves pop, classic, rock
• Manual tuning/seeking tuning , one tough memory.
• CD: CD-R/CD-RW compatible, Last position memory, Random/repeat/intro/pause, High-speed audible track search
• 8x Oversampling, 1 Bit D/A converter, Anti-shock mechanism, 3-Beam laser pickup
• Front panel USB connection - charge only, Charges most USB devices (DC 5Volts, 500mA)

While I didn't purchase this unit, it was installed in the car I recently bought. It's a really nice stereo, with well laid-out buttons.

It loses 1 star for it's bright blue display (the box on the left of the unit, not the accents). There is no way to reduce the annoying brightness. I'm going to have to resort to using a small patch of window cling film to cut the brightness in half. Hopefully that will do it, because I don't want to ditch the radio for this one drawback.

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...and for 50 bucks you get far more then you did even 10 years ago. Don't expect this to be the be-all, end-all for car stereos. It gets pretty good reception, the CD player has to take a pretty good jolt to skip, the clock works and is easy to set as well as the presets for the radio. This is really simple to use and set up for us guys that don't want to drive down the road at 90 miles an hour looking through menus and it actually has a nice big volume knob that's easy to use without looking for it (eyes on the road...).

They claim this is 60 watts peak (15x4) and might be on another planet with different laws of physics. It'll get loud enough to hear without distorton, but if you like your music LOUD, you're gonna need an amp, and if you're gonna buy an amp, you might as well get a better radio to start with.

It's got a USB port on the front that works really well for charging a cellphone, and a miniplug to plug your MP3 player into. I found I used my little MP3 player way more then the CD player.

If you got a old beater, or like me listen to a bunch of talk radio and acoustic music, it'll do fine. It's possible to spend WAY under a hundred bucks on this stereo and some speakers here. Nothing fancy, but it'll make noise and that's good enough. If you want a high end system, well, good wire cost more then this does.

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My first aftermarket headunit in a car, and first CD player in a car. I loved it when I first got it as I had no real idea about car audio (and I'm still an amateur, but I've learned a little) and just enjoyed being able to use CD's and AUX cables. Those are the only good parts of this it can minimally play CD's and AUX cables; the latter of which it does poorly with awful volume output.

I've had this headunit for a little over two years now and it is downright terrible. Nevermind the awful power and sound output it's capable of. The quality is downright atrocious. After nearly a half a year to a year of owning it, it began to skip terribly while playing CD's in the mornings or when it the headunit became cold (had sat around for awhile). This was initially redeemed by allowing the car to warm up, and thus allowing the headunit to warm up. The CD player would also skip badly if going over any bumps in the road, whereas other (even stock) headunits would not skip a beat on those same bumps in the road.

Being able to let the car warm up to fix the problem with the CD player gave out not long after, and up until now it has only been used for AUX and radio as the CD will skip the entire time it's playing, ad infinum, which is annoying beyond reason.

I almost forgot to mention another grievance I had with this headunit. It seemed as though almost every time I went to adjust the volume that the faceplate would temporarily disconnect from the main body and lose power briefly. This caused no end of frustration as I would try to change songs to turn the volume up only to have to wait 10 or more seconds for the CD player to start back up, and hope that the faceplate didn't do it again. I tried so many times to take the faceplate off and put it back on better but nothing would fix it it is just of terrible quality.

Now I wish I had bought a better headunit when I was making my initial purchase instead of just heading down to Walmart and picking whatever was cheapest. It was regrettable ignorance regarding car audio on my part. Dual is an awful brand that I will never purchase from again as a result of this piece of garbage, and I recommend that nobody else purchases their products either.

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As the others have said, the bright blue LCD is annoying. Additionaly, the am/fm tner quit within a month of installation. Dual has a rather low reputation, and this player sure proves that it is deserved.

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The product is as advertised,

The only thing i noticed is the clock has to be re-set every time i turn it off, if there is a way to keep the clock on please tell me,

I recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap but good working player,