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Overall Rating: ( 1 reviews )

1. Posted: Oct 27 2007

   I'm not a sophisticated audioph00l, so I can't make any detailed, "subtle, but unassuming," type nebulosities about the bouquet of the sound quality. I will point out that it was a cinch to install it, and all of the features seem to work as advertised. The removable face removes, the CD player plays, the USB MP3 port works quite well (and it tells you what the song is in a sort of ticker display), the radio performs its tasks adequately, and the AUX cable can in fact be hooked up to an ipod shuffle. Be advised though, for the latter use, you will have to purchase an additional cable to hook up to the RCA jacks in the back, and presumably wire the adapter cable up through your car somewhere. I don't know why a car stereo has RCA jacks (which are two giant dongle-like banana plugs), but this one does. There are apparently other car stereos which provide a better connection (with recharging). The skip prevention seems to work well on the CD player when I bounce all over the place in my monster truck, but, oddly, it seems to freak out when the car shimmies a bit. It might be my imagination, or a dirty CD. A neat subtlety: it manages to keep your place on where you were the last time you played your CD, which is a really nice engineering touch, even if it is kind of useless. I haven't tried the XM radio hookups, as paying for radio waves is for sophisticated people who don't drive monster trucks. The idea of a remote in a car stereo is sort of new to me; I like it. Probably, if I read the manual I'd understand why the volume knob sometimes ceases to function, but it's a car radio: I don't want to have to read the manual except while installing the thing. It is also rather confusing switching between audio inputs. It would be nice if it were a little less LED heavy on the faceplate. It makes the cab look sort of like the inside of a cheesy eastern European discotheque. If you're dating an eastern European, maybe this will work for you.

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Overall Rating: ( 4 reviews )

1. Posted: Jul 13 2008

   there are three peices that fly off and get lost. the battery lasts for about 20 minutes and its shorts itself off. Do your self a favor and stay away.

2. Posted: Feb 28 2008

   It stopped working less than a week after I got it, and Philips customer support wants me to pay $30 shipping/handling fee to get it replaced.

3. Posted: Feb 12 2008

   keep have to repair continously.

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Overall Rating: ( 1 reviews )

1. Posted: Sep 26 2007

   Bought this for my son as he can't live without his iPod. Installation was easy and it looks good. The sounds quality is decent considering the price paid - it won't blow your doors off but sounds MUCH better than the oem radio. Lots of nice features and can control & charge your iPod. A color screen would be nice, but not expected at this price. Decent stereo for this price range. Update: After 5 months the unit will NOT work with an iPod anymore; quality may be a little suspect in this model.

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Overall Rating: ( 1 reviews )

1. ( 1 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 6 2008

   The display on this unit is hard to see during the day in shaded areas. It's easy to see in direct sunlight which a marine radio should be, but mine is set up in a shaded area and it's very hard to see whats displayed. It works great at night due to display illumination. Also the source button is to close to the volume knob and often times I hit that button while trying to adjust volume while rolling and bobbing with the waves on the ocean. On the good side it's easy to use and sounds great...when I could see the display.

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Overall Rating: ( 5 reviews )

1. Posted: Mar 18 2008

   I have an older car and didn't want to spend a whole lot of money replacing the old cd deck that was stolen out of it. This stereo does a lot for the price: it's worth it for the USB alone. Sound is good, not great. Pretty standard on the install process. One thing that is annoying is that when you turn it on, the display says "bluetooth ready" to try to upsell you on the bluetooth unit. The hint must be working because I am looking forward to getting the bluetooth unit to be able to stream audio off of my blackberry. I would recommend this to anyone looking to add USB without spending too much $$$.

2. Posted: Mar 10 2008

   I got it install it six weeks ago, however i haven't used CDs on it, only USB an input port and for those it works great, good sound and many setup and display options. The only thing i don't like is that when you use the shuffle option on USB it only goes thru current folder, it doesn't shuffle on the whole USB content, so that for me is useless this way.

3. Posted: Oct 19 2007

   What a product. I bought it from Best Buy for only $70. It was on clearance. I know I could not get it cheaper so I bought it as soon as I saw it as they only had two units left. I got it installed next day. First of all, sound quality is great, no qualms there. It has lots of options to choose from, volume, bass, treble, speaker balance, loudness, equalizer, etc. So you can create a program according to what pleases your ears. It plays audio CDs, MP3 and WMA formats which is great. You can save 200 MP3 songs on a CD and you are ready to roll. Isn't that nice. These features are actually not the reason I bought this one as they are commonplace for any car CD system. I bought this one because of USB port and Bluetooth. You can plug in your USB drive with songs on it. That is pretty cool because it saves you the trouble of burning audio CDs or MP3 CDs. Saving songs on USB is much faster. It also has an Auxiliary slot so you can connect any MP3 player/ipod which is nice too. Now the best part...If you have a Bluetooth device (esp. phone), you can connect that to this unit (you need to buy a Bluetooth Module sold separately though) and you can take/make calls from this unit. This makes things much easier while you are driving. I would have liked if I could do it without using that Module which costs around $40. Nevertheless, its a nice feature. I AM WONDERING IF I CAN CONNECT MY PHONE BY SIMPLY USING A USB-BLUETOOTH ADAPTER. If anyone has tried this, please let me know. That may save you a few bucks as USB-Bluetooth adapters are much cheaper than the module. So overall its a nice unit with many many useful features. Boy, at $70, is that cheap :-)

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