Home > Consumer Reviews > Kenwood KDC-MP342U WMA/MP3 CD Receiver with Satellite/HD Radio/Bluetooth Ready Front Panel USB/AUX Input

I bought this car stereo for my Xterra, for the price, you can't beat it. I saved $40.00 over the price at my local electronics store. I haven't figured out how to use the usb flash drive option yet, but I'm an old guy, I'll have one of my kids show how that works. For $103.00 you can't go wrong.

I have a 2005 Outback with the stock cd player. I needed something to play my itouch so I did a search on updating my stock player. I found only one site who offered an dash adapter kit for my car which was Crutchfield. I checked with BestBuy to see if I bought a cd player from them if they could install it. They were unable to get the adapter kit so when I went back to Crutchfield I found that they offered the Kenwood KDC-MP342U plus threw in the adapter kit, harness kit, instructions, antenna adapter and shipping for FREE!

I am totally THRILLED with the Kenwood KDC-MP342U!! I never felt my car seat vibrate using the stock stereo. It has great power and sound. The itouch works perfectly with it and even charges it while the tuner displays the name of the song and artist. The tuner can even be set up to play the songs randomly. I'm looking to see if I can find a great price on the bluetooth adapter for my phone then I'll be adding that.

Now I want to buy one for my husband's truck. I am a little disappointed that it doesn't play my Zune through the USB port but I can attach it to the aux port and still plug it into the USB slot to charge it. Once we've installed the Kenwood KDC-MP342U in my husband's truck I will hand the Zune over to him for all of his music.

The radio works good. My wife is happy, so I am happy. The Amazon site said it fit my car, but it did not inform me of three products I would need to make installing it simpler. I ended up spending $61 more at Best Buy after 1 1/2 weeks for an antenna adapter, dash installation kit, and a wiring adapter kit. Unfortunately, I had already cut harness wires on the car, but did get them reconnected quickly. Kenwood technical help was about 30% efficient in providing accurate advice on wiring problems. I found some guidance on the internet, but it was not complet. The faceplate on the radio had problems, and they wanted me to send it in. I cleaned the contacts and put it back together and it now works great. All in all in took about 3 1/2 weeks to iron out all the problems. What a head ache. I recommended to Amazon that they should list other "needed" items to properly install items such as this on their website. April from Amazon said she would pass that along. Buy it, but beware there are other items to help you greatly with installation

The installation was very easy and the radio works and looks very nice. I must change my speakers because this radio generates a lot of power, I like that. Looks great especially at night. Check this site: [...]

i have the older model of this head unit in my car,both, a little on the complex side as far as accessibility for the more advanced audio control, but both so far are an A+ . also, at this price it out-performs even higher end units. kenwood and amazon kicks a%& !