Looking for style and substance in an in-dash receiver? You'll find both with the Panasonic MXE Series CQ-C5403U CD player. Its classy black faceplate glows blue at night, and sports a large bright blue display that's easily visible in the daytime, with a rotary knob for easy adjustments. Touch a button, and the motorized, slide-down face drops down to reveal the CD slot.

This Panasonic will play back the MP3 and WMA files that you've burned to CD-R and CD-RW discs, and display each file's track information right up on the faceplate. You can count on whatever you play sounding great. The strong built-in amp supplies plenty of punch to all your recordings, while Panasonic's SQ3 feature offers three tone controls and six preset tone curves for sound shaping.

Features

Motorized Sliding Face: The CQ-C5403U features a motorized sliding detachable face with a large bright display. When you press the eject button, the face slides down to allow you to insert or remove a CD. For best visibility, you can utilize the 3-stage tilt function to angle the faceplate at 15°, 25°, or 35°. When the security function is activated, an alarm will sound and a message will appear to remind you to remove the faceplate. After the faceplate is removed, a flashing red LED warns potential thieves. A hard plastic face case is supplied for carrying your detached faceplate.

Day & Night Design: The CQ-C5403U has Panasonic's popular Day & Night Design. During the day, the faceplate has a sleek, black and graphite design. At night, a series of blue LEDs around the frame of the nosepiece gives off a blue glow.

Spectrum Analyzer: The display features a spectrum analyzer at the bottom of the display. You can select one of 6 patterns or turn the spectrum analyzer off.

MP3/WMA Compatible: The CQ-C5403U can play MP3 and WMA files recorded onto CD-R and CD-RW discs in ISO 9660 Level 1/Level 2, Apple Extension to ISO 9660, Joliet, and Romeo. The player can support up to 511 files, 255 files in one folder, 8 levels, and 255 folders.

Satellite Radio Ready: You can connect a satellite radio tuner to the CQ-C5403U in a number of ways. The unit is directly compatible with the SIRIUS SIR-PAN1 Satellite Tuner for Panasonic (item # 607SIRPAN1). In addition, you can connect an independently controlled "plug 'n play" unit to the head unit through the rear aux input.

Auxiliary Input: A set of female RCA jacks is provided to allow the connection of a portable audio source. Just connect your portable cassette, MD or MP3 player to this unit, and you can listen to the audio from the portable player through the speakers in your mobile audio system.

3-Level Dimmer: The display's brightness can be set to one of three dimmer levels.

CEA-2006 Compliant: The specifications given by Panasonic for the built-in amplifier comply with the CEA-2006 mobile amplifier power testing and measurement standards from the CEA (Consumer Electronics Association). All manufacturers who comply with the standard can display the CEA-2006 logo on their product.

Subwoofer Output: In addition to front and rear preamp outputs, the receiver has a non-fading, two-channel subwoofer output. You can adjust the volume of the subwoofer output from -6dB to +6dB in 2dB increments. In addition, you can set the frequency of the built-in low pass filter at 80Hz or 120Hz.

Sound Quality (SQ3): In addition to the bass and treble adjustments, the unit's Sound Quality 3 functions allow you to set the level of each of 3 bands by +/-12dB at the following frequencies: SQ Low/Bass: 60Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz or 200Hz; SQ Mid: 500Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, or 3kHz; SQ High/Treble: 10kHz, 12kHz, 15kHz, or 18kHz. There are six SQ3 presets:

• SQ-Rock: speedy and heavy sound; exaggerates bass and treble
• SQ-Pop: wide-ranged and deep sound; slightly emphasizes bass and treble
• SQ-Vocal: clear sound; emphasizes middle tone and slightly emphasizes treble
• SQ-Jazz: jazz-specific deep sound with emphasis on sharpness of high-hat and echo of saxophone
• SQ-Club: club and disco specific sound: reproduction of realism being in a club
• SQ-Flat: flat frequency response; no emphasis applied

Mute/Attenuate: This unit allows you to choose between mute (volume at 0) or attenuate (volume decreased by 10 steps) when you want to decrease the volume instantly. After selecting mute or attenuate in the menu, pressing the Mute button activates either function and the Mute indicator light glows in the display.

Alphatuner V: The CQ-C5403U's Alphatuner V tuner is designed to help suppress multi-path distortion and reduce the problem of radio signal reflections in metropolitan areas. It also features increased sensitivity for weak signal areas.

Remote Control: The CQ-C5403U is equipped with a wireless remote control (EUR7641010). The dimensions of the remote are: W=1.64", H=0.664", L=3.762". The remote is powered by a CR2025 lithium battery (supplied).

Display Note: Pressing and holding the Source button turns the unit off completely. After the unit has been turned off, you can use the DISP button to switch the clock display and face/button illumination on and off. If you leave the clock display and face/button illumination on, they are "keyed." If you turn the clock display and face/button illumination off, they only turn on when the unit is turned on ("unit on" operation).

Note: The Source button stays lit even with the clock display and other button illumination turned off.

Optional iPod Adapter: This receiver is compatible with the optional Panasonic CA-DC300U iPod adapter (item #133DC300). When an iPod is connected using the adapter, all of the iPod's controls will be disabled and it will be controlled from the receiver. With this interface, you'll be able to play your iPod music files through your Panasonic receiver and in most cases have all the titling information appear on the receiver's display.

Optional Hands-Free Phone System: Connection of the optional Hands-Free Phone System (Hands-Free Kit featuring Bluetooth technology: item #133BT100) allows you to talk on a handsfree cellular phone if the phone supports Bluetooth.

Note: This unit is designed only for receiving calls. It cannot send calls.

Optional Expansion Module (hub unit): Connection of the CY-EM100U Expansion Module (item #133CYEM100) allows you to connect up to 4 optional components. You can choose from the following devices: DVD changer (maximum of 1 can be connected), CD changer (maximum of 1 can be connected), iPod (maximum of 2 can be connected), Hand-Free Phone System (maximum of 1 can be connected), or SIRIUS tuner (maximum of 1 can be connected).

CD Changer Controls

CD Changer Controls: The CQ-C5403U has controls for a compatible Panasonic CD changer, such as the CX-DP880. A CA-CC30U adapter cable (item 133CACC30) is required to connect a CD changer to this unit. CD Changer functions include: Disc Skip, Direct Disc Select (remote only), Track Skip, Track Search (FF/RW), Disc Intro Scan, Track Intro Scan, Disc repeat, Track repeat, Disc random and Track random.