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Great start to HD radio in your car, December 10, 2007

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F. Shue (San Francisco, USA) – See all my reviews

  

This is a great car receiver for anyone who’s interested in free HD radio. It’s hard to tell the difference between FM and HD radio FM, but the additional channel on each band allows the user to listen to more music. The huge improvement is listening to AM radio on HD. For Bay Area residents, listen to KNPR 1050 Sports (too bad they don’t broadcast HD on its sister 680 AM band). The difference between 1050 AM and 1050 HD is truly amazing. The front AUX is a nice feature where you can plug in your iPod or MP3 player with a mini-stereo cable. When you play a MP3 CD, you can search quickly for the MP3 (by number) you want to listen to by using the volume dial (better than using the buttons).

The only problem is it takes nearly 5 seconds to synch from regular radio to HD, and it’s not a very stylist front panel. But it only costs $130 or less… I got the unit installed by Best Buy so I can’t tell you about any installation issues (installing my previous car receiver was a pain so I decided to pay for labor this time).

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Pretty darn good deal for the money, March 15, 2009

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David Bachman (Apache Junction, AZ) – See all my reviews

  

Had this for a couple of weeks now, and I still love it. The sound is great, the functions are simple and easy, and the CD player has only skipped once over a VERY rough patch of road (in a Mustang with a stiff suspension, no less). Even without the HD Radio part, the radio reception on this deck is MUCH better than some of the others I’ve had.

My only real gripe is how it switches back and forth from HD Radio to analog radio and back again whenever it loses signal from HD, at least on the stations that simulcast on the same frequency. For example, if I’m listening to 97.9FM, when you first turn it on it’ll play analog while it buffers the HD signal, then it’ll switch over to the HD signal and you’ll hear the same 4 or 5 seconds of audio you just heard on the analog side. This is annoying as hell when you get to the outer limits of a station’s HD range, at which point you may as well switch off HD reception; the alternative is to put it in HD-only mode, but whenever it loses signal there, you get complete silence while “LINKING” displays on the screen, which is even more annoying to me.

I also kinda wish I’d opted for the slightly higher-priced version of this deck with the USB port on the front, but oh well, this deck plays MP3′s off of CD-R’s just fine without any problems, and the auxillary jack on the front is handy for your iPod or mini-MP3 player or whatever else. I’m much more pleased with this deck than the Kenwood my girlfriend just bought for $40+ more.

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good buy, October 30, 2008

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William Walden “HOSE JAPA” (MADISON) – See all my reviews

  

Good radio, good sounds, HD is the bomb!!, easy to install, only comnplaint is the view on the radio is not very easy to see during day light. I don’t know if it isthe reflexction or light but it is hard to see whene light is bright.

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