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i mainly bought this for the SD Slot. it took my 4 GB card. This Radio Is the Best Ever! It Does everything what it says it will do! with No Defects. SD Card Slot is the Best thing Ever. I dont own any cd’s thanks to this stereo. It was Very Simple to install. The controls are eazy to use. I was going to get a seperate bluetooth kit, but this I saved myself so much Money with the Bluetooth. You hear your calls through all the speakers and the microphone is located on the stereo. Your calls sound crystal clear, the person who you call can hear you perfectly. No Road or wind sound, and you dont have to scream when you are talking on the phone. One thing you cant do with this stereo is you cant lower the brightness of the screen. I highly recommend this stereo to any Music lover, stuck in traffic, has to many cd’s in their car Kind of person.
Rating: 5 / 5

This is my first receiver purchase since I purchased an iPod a couple years ago. I had just been using a Monster FM transmitter and was getting tired of all the static and high pitched noise coming through. So when I set out looking for a receiver my main goals was to find one with ipod connectivity and built in bluetooth. The price for the amount of features on this receiver is outstanding. But, like all things, you get what you pay for. Don’t get me wrong this is a nice little receiver. The built in bluetooth is excellent. I drive a Miata and was worried that it would be difficult for people to understand me and me to understand them because of the road noise, but that isn’t a problem. Everything comes through perfectly. Also, the sound is excellent. I can’t believe how much of a difference this receiver makes over my factory deck. So what’s the problem you ask?? Why only 3 stars??? Well there is only one problem and it is a HUGE one, for me anyway. That is you can only control your iPod through the receiver. The iPod’s interface is locked once it is hooked up to the receiver. I have 3500 songs on my iPod with tons of different artists and some artists with over 10 albums each. Navigating to find the song you want to listen to is a nightmare, especially going down the road. And that wouldn’t even be so bad if you could just spin the knob and quickly go through artists, but you can’t. It is sluggish. If you spin it too fast it will just sit on the artist you are currently on. You also can’t go backwards. So if you want to hear an artist that starts with a ‘Z’ and you have as many artists on your iPod as I do get ready for about a 15 minute ordeal. Let’s say you finally get to artist ‘Z’ and click the button to go into their folder(assuming the sluggish controls don’t fly forward at the last second causing you to choose the wrong artist and yell obscenities because you have to start back at ‘A’) and you want to hear an album of their’s that also starts with ‘Z’. You have to scroll through every song under that artists name to get to the ‘Z’ album. You don’t pick /Artist/Album/Song, you have to pick the artist then scroll through everyone of their songs to find the one you want, and the same sluggish controls apply. They are all grouped together, so you don’t have any idea what album they are from. I have some artists that have the same name of a song on different albums, a live album for instance, and the only way to know which one it is is to figure out which album comes first in alphabetical order, in your head. And, if you choose the wrong version, and the version you want is on a different album, guess what? You have to start all the way back over at artist ‘A’. I do not understand why they wouldn’t just let you use the simple iPod interface(and they don’t, I emailed their support and asked). Other than that one hugely annoying problem this is a good receiver with lot’s of features for 90 bucks, but I wish I would of done a little more research and picked a receiver with much better iPod controls.
Rating: 3 / 5

I’m very happy with this radio. The amplifier is extremely clean and detailed with plenty of power. It is rated at 13W * 4 at < 1 % THD, and it is very clean indeed, even at high volume levels. Avoid any system that does not give you a power AND distortion rating. Any radio can do 160W at 50% distortion, what's important is how clean it is at a normal to high listening level. At 13W average, with most music, you're asking for peaks well over 130W, which no head unit can do without distorting anyway. Very loud music is going to average around 5W with peaks around 100W, which are going to be clipped with any car radio. Suffice it to say that this unit seems to have plenty of headroom and drives my speakers to the point where they are traveling well beyond their design range and the system still sounds good. I'm surprised how loud it will go while still sounding clean (and the lights don't dim on the display which would indicate clipping). It probably really is producing 40W * 4 at a reasonably clean level (maybe even more), and my speakers are without a doubt going to distort on their own at that level no matter what amp is used. Conclusion: Sounds great.

I’m giving the unit 5 stars meaning that for the money, I don’t think it can be beat, the features are extremely good at this price and it really does sound good. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, but I’ve heard much more expensive equipment sound like junk in comparison. It works fine with a 4GB SDHC SD card, others not tested. It probably has 1000 mp3′s on it, and they sound excellent. CD is fine too, and the FM and AM bands also sound very good and seem to pull in stations better than any other radio I have in any of my cars. With the SD card, I did notice that sometimes it doesn’t always jump to the correct song right away but will after a few seconds. I’ve seen this a few times but most of the time it’s fine. I eliminated all non-mp3 files to try to stop this, but it still happens on occasion. Worth mentioning, but really not an issue. Navigation among folders is easy. IPOD interface not tested (I don’t have one). I didn’t think I would use the remote, but I do quite often. The remote is IR so you have to be in a direct line to the radio for the signal to be seen. A radio type connection would have been smarter so the remote could be mounted somewhere like the dash or console, but I suppose that would also cost more.

The bluetooth connects to my phone instantly when the key is turned on, and I have it set to auto answer. Pairing it the first time was a little iffy and I had to read the manual (code is 1234) but it never asks again. I don’t think I had the volume set correctly because others report great sound, but mine was not so good, it’s in an old Jeep CJ7 which is loud and like an echo chamber inside anyway, so it would be a challenge for any radio or bluetooth system. I like the fact that the bluetooth is effortless, and it works fine even in my loud Jeep, it’s certainly no worse than me holding my phone by hand, and probably works great in a quiet car. It’s not good enough to eliminate all noise but I don’t think I should expect that either.

The blue display is very bright and there is no input from the lights to dim it. My instruments are green, so pay attention to that, it’s one small point I really don’t like, but I really can’t complain too much at this price point given everything else it does so well. If you want a radio with different selectable colors or a dimmable display, this one doesn’t have it. I have no trouble seeing it even in bright sunlight, but a different color and brightness would be a good addition (or an auto-dim feature using a light sensor would be even smarter), and is probably available on more expensive units.

All in all, for the price, this thing does everything I can ask and does it very well with extremely good sound, much better than I expected. I don’t think the value can be beat in this price range. If I take the roof off my Jeep and it gets rained on, it will be no huge expense to replace it, which is part of the reason I went with an inexpensive unit; it’s disposable. I’m very pleased with how good this unit is for the price, I really didn’t expect it to be that good except all of the other reviews indicated it was a great radio. They were right.
Rating: 5 / 5