This Season's Key Pieces

The Red, Black & Chrome of the standard Copen is to my mind a beautiful look so I've added just a few simple extras to compliment and enhance this theme and to keep the balance of it's retro image

 

Haha! Fangs very much! Illusory I know, but the extra red and chrome not only brightens up but seems to open up the interior.
By the way, Congratulations Mr Speedy on your clocking over the 100 thousand - you truly are COPEN ROYALTY!! Best wishes for your next 100

 

Hi Joe you can download the manual from a link on their american website, worth doing if you might think about getting one...
http://www.retrosoundusa.com/products/details/id/321
It's the retrosound model two. It sounds better than the original Clarion stereo but I suspect that is mainly down to the better speakers. I don't think you can plug in an SD card but I'm happy enough with using two USB sticks. I guess you could plug a CD changer into one of the aux sockets but this seems a bit unecessary to me as it would be taking up valuable space, I've got two 32gb sticks (in matching red & black hahaha!) and have put loads of music on these, although to be honest I listen to the radio mainly. It's hard deciding on which finish to go for, so many good choices. And then when you've fitted it, should the display be set to orange to match the dials or green to match the clock?

 

Thanks Copey I'm glad you like it. It's become my own Copen now it's all fairly straightforward to fit and there's info on this website for fitting most of this stuff - the grill is very satisfying as it really does take just a few minutes, three screws to undo to free up the existing grill although I used three bolts with nuts on the new one for a bit of added security. If you're going to fit component speakers, you might find that the bass speakers will take a while because the standard ones have three screwing points but the replacement ones that I got have four so I had to fashion a mounting ring from an old piece of mdf - time consuming but not to difficult (see pic)

 

Bought from the UK. The one I got doesn't take CDs. Flash drives are fine, pressing one of the front buttons jumps to the next folder and another button jumps back a folder so reasonably ok to find the music you want - it's in the manual which you can download. Not sure about layers because I haven't really worked out the best way to store all my music but I'm ok with having one folder containing the mp3 files from one cd, and I've got around 30 folders on each usb stick at the moment. It's important to save them in alphabetical order from your computer though so that you can skip a folder to the next one without having to think too much about what album you're playing, nor get distracted from your actual driving.
Oh and the clock is the standard Copen clock (with a surround from Chromdesign) - would like to get an analogue clock some day but not seen anything suitable yet.