Successful successor

After I was very happy with my JVC KD-R422, I bought the KD-R452E for my new car and was not disappointed. The radio has a good sound, is reliable with my USB drives and memory cards (via USB Card Reader) and was easy to install.

The menu was slightly revised compared to the KD-R422. While there Performers folder followed by the respective Album folders are displayed continuously, the KD-R452E uses a multi-directory structure. By pressing the menu button all the songs of the current folder are displayed. Per Back button to go up one level and can, for example, scroll through all the albums. All artists are displayed in turn by back button.

This requires a properly-run music library with folders for artists and albums. For the correct order, you can put two-digit track numbers before the filename, for example with the freeware Mp3tag. I think there is even a JVC software for it.

The only drawback: the knob I found the KD-R422 beautiful.