Music Catcher is a function which enables listeners to store favourite tunes and albums on the built-in hard disk. You can enjoy music from the hard disk by making your own “favourite collection” of songs. Ripping speed: Maximum 8 times recording Storage capacity: Maximum 4,000 songs Ripping format: High quality Atrac 3 / 132 Kbs

The Music Catcher of MAX983HD is able to update the CD title information for each song automatically after ripping the song on the hard disk. In case the database doesn’t have your title information available, the NAVI manager software can synchronise the data with the Gracenote website on the Internet and update the title information on your hard disk. Moreover, the software can also show your favourite picture or the album cover on the screen.

Digital sound is made up of unnaturally square sound waves, as opposed to the smoothly undulating sound waves characteristic of the real-world environment. Clarion’s high-quality 24-bit D/A converter recreates those lost nuances and natural expressions of sound during the reproduction process, when sound is converted from digital back to its audible analogue form.

MAX983HD is an integrated AV & Navigation unit with a huge 40 GB hard disk. It integrates sophisticated navigation functions, such as graphic display of map data, destination search and route calculation/guidance, with impressive entertainment options, e.g. high-quality reproduction of audio and visual media and 2-Zone playback.

The optional Bluetooth interface adapter connects your main unit to Bluetooth-ready mobile phones without wires enabling you to talk handsfree on your phone. When a call is received, music is interrupted and the voice of the caller is heard through the speakers of the car audio system. There is no need to hold the phone, simply talk into the supplied microphone.