my clarion 855Dz will forever be my baby. i love it. speaking of display, the display md track titles DOES work except it doesn't scroll titles longer than the available ten spots that display letters/characters. Actually all you have to do to display the track title is while
playing an md, hold down the green "DIS" play button to switch from disc title to track title or vice versa. and as for scrolling titles just press the small round green "T" button. just thought maybe anyone else might have also missed these things and i love that clarion stereo, the chicks dig the strobe/prism light.

unfortunately and annoyingly the unit only scrolls it the trackname/title name once

as far as price of the unit, i got my eyes poked out, but there's a reason why i didn't mind. i payed 500 for it plus about 100 for installation(jigga what!!) but as far as the other stuff, amps and speakers, i work at best buy so i had the hook ups, and got around half off the total price of all the subs, amps, and speakers, and installation.

well the chix and all dig the strobe light on the unit but i am someday looking forward to buying that new recordable sony unit, well gotta run, laters

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AGAIN, if u haven't gotten it to display the track names?
just hold the DISP button down for about 2 seconds(just bout the same as if you were setting the radio stations). as far as the prism settings, i know besides the strobe one(2) one and two are almost alike in both of them change color for functions(tuner, MD, or changer), except one of them doesn't change color if you go and change the balance and fader.

well i love this unit, what i have it hooked up to is some nice fairly new equipment:
i have a 92 V6 beretta(nothin fancy)
i have two amps, one clarion 4 channel for my inside speakers(2 Cerwin Vega 4" dash speakers, and 2 C.Vega 6x9's in the back)
my other amp is a basic inexpensive 2ch Crunch amp for my two 12" Fosgate subs in my trunk, that amp isn't as clean and clear as the clarion but it makes them subs kick! i still need to soundproof my trunk more so i haven't been able to really crank it yet.

A good feature was if the faceplate was folded down or when ejecting an MD the unit still played at the currently tuned radio station. The 10 second anti-shock memory held pretty good on potholes. With a Prestige by Audiovox 200 watts MAX Output Amplifier and a Phyle 350 watts Bazooka Subwoofer hooked up to the 855Dz, all worked perfectly producing great clarity and better management on the high/low pitches. Among the 855Dz features the 180 Watt (45 W x 4) was very useful to my front and rear speakers since they were not amplified. Considering that I connected an amplifier and mono-connected a subwoofer all-in- all the speakers still came strong and was never put back by the sound the subwoofer produced. Meaning that the 45 wattage distributed to my low quality speakers, the unit still accomplished to output high quality sounds. Using the Non-Fade Subwoofer Output to connect the amplifier and mono-ed subwoofer, power was what I got and lots of it. I didn't think it would sound good since it wasn't like some Rockfords but the unit still managed to use and produce the best outputs from the amp and sub sounding cleaner and more defined at all volume levels. The 855Dz's fold-down faceplate had a large area for display which made it appear very nice and gave use to the 4 color 5 x 7 Dot Matrix Display feature. On it, the most unique animation was the rotating 3D ball with the MD written gave the most attraction to the eye. In addition to this, a Prism key feature was included. This feature had 3 settings although setting 2 didn't seem to have any purpose. I don't know why? Prism key setting 1 gave the rotary knob a blue lit color and was very cool and prism key setting 2 was just the same which I thought was questionable and useless. And last but not least setting 3 on the prism key feature was
the disco-light-like light changes. The rotary knob displayed different colors according to the (I believe)
rhythm accents. Everytime a song goes boom the color changes into something else. Other than that Contrast and Brightness were among the useful functions to set the display to the users want.

In conclusion, if you're very picky on having MD track names don't even bother buying this unit get one by Sony. Now if not having displayed the track names you titled your MD doesn't affect or bother you so much and you plan to install some amplifiers, loud speakers, and some subwoofer then this is 1 hell of an MD unit for you. Again after installing a subwoofer on this unit, my disappointment to the no-track-name display was reassured. This unit can produce such great output I don't think you'd even care about the features it lacks. Even better if you plan to hook up the specified equalizer mentioned on the unit's manual then you'll really get the best out of the unit specially equalizer display which is not available on a stand-alone installment. But even if the unit alone, you will not regret it it's performance.

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I've compared this unit's performance to 5 other stereo systems with top brand names such as Kenwood, Rockford, Sony, Alpine, & Pioneer customizing to produce the best output(not the loudest) but the best on quality and the Clarion RMX855Dz stands out with the best clarity.