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| Sound quality | 8.3/10  |
|---|---|
| Value for Money | 7.8/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 8.7/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9.1/10  |
By rhinodc on 16th Jun 2007
| Sound quality | 6/10 |
|---|---|
| Value for money | 7/10 |
| Overall value | 7/10 |
 rhinodc's recommendation | |
Spectrum display is sweet and the main reason it's still in my car. Very adjustable for people who want to tweak their systems. Crossover settings for front/rear/sub are great and easy to use.
My display is developing lines after 2 years of use. For high end systems the factory EQ settings all sound absolutely horrible. This deck is extremely touchy when it comes to sound settings. It has to be just right to sound good and takes some time to do so. Move the EQ setting 1 level and you get a huge change in the overall quality of the sound. Notice it most with crossover db level and frequency cutoffs. And there is no easy way to adjust sub level without going back in to the audio settings, very hard to do while driving, I miss that from my old Alpine...
I have JL amplifiers, a small fortune in wiring and dynamat, diamond audio speakers all around and JL 12"subs. The stereo sounds good when it is tuned PERFECTLY. The auto time correction and auto EQ settings make it almost impossible to get the radio sounding good so they are always off on my radio. This radio is very temperamental to setting adjustments, I've been tuning car audio systems for 20 years and this one is not easy to get sounding great. If it was not for the spectrum analyzer display which is great, this radio would have been replaced a long time ago. But for now I'm putting up with it! So in less you really want the cool display I'd look somewhere else for your next radio...
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