Quote Originally Posted by ausbill32 View Post

My second option to this Alpine was the Kenwood 700U that you are considering. I didn't even consider the 440U because it didn't have enough outputs for me. The only things I didn't like about the 700U is it's size and it didn't have standard USB connection otherwise, I would have been sold. I'm sure I could have purchased some AUX thing to make the USB work but didn't want to hassle with that.

In all the reading , I thought the 700U did have the standard USB connection...?

Thanks Brian for the definitive explanation -- think I will spend the extra $$ on the 700U
-- one additional question - when installing the 700U - does the unit simply slide in the exisiting DIN with no cutting - just securing with screws or do you have to MOD/cut the factory cutout. ?