Ok so I just got a big shipment today with most of the stuff for my E30 build today. One of the things I got was my new head unit! This thing is seriously amazing, by far the best 99$ head unit there is. front and rear usb & aux, 2 2.5v pre-amps, ipod(2-way)/iphone/pandora control, 30,000 changeable color display (can also have different colors for buttons & display), satellite/hd/bluetooth/steering wheel compatible, and everything else you can fucking imagine!
JVC KD-R720
Have to give props, this seems to be truly an amazing head unit for it's price. Tomorrow I'm going to install it and I'll let you all know how it performs!
No affiliations with Sonic (they just have good pricing & great product descriptions) or JVC, just thought I'd share the love!
EDIT: Review
Ok finally got around to toying with it this morning and played with a bunch of the features. First off the build quality is great! Doesn't feel cheap, the buttons are solid and smooth and not light and wobbly or anything. The volume knob is nice smooth quality, rubber grip ring, feels good, adjusts volume smoothly. The remote is VERY small, which I like and very simple, has only the necessary buttons needed and not cluttered.
This may be a small thing but to me it shows that the manufacturer cares at least a little more. Packing was very nice, solid and organized. Every single item was labeled and had little descriptions (making things very user friendly). The manual is very detailed yet it is very precise, starts off with the things you want to address first then goes through all the topics with all the information you need and not a tad more.
Functionality is great! It does everything you can ever imagine, yet it is VERY intuitive and nothing is hard to navigate to. It has front and rear usb and a front aux. The rear usb is on a pretty long cable with a female usb input on the end. I routed it behind the deck and down under the center console so it will come out through the ash tray. The second you plug in your ipod it reads it and switches over to whatever mode you have it set to (controlling it through the deck or through the ipod). I have it set to head mode so I can search through my ipod on the deck, which is very easy and set up exactly how the ipod is. Works fast and flawlessly.
It has a few (5 or 6 I believe) preset EQ settings, or you can easily adjust the EQ, bass, treble, mid (from -6 to +6). However you can also go through and edit the xover points for bass, treble and mid which is always a very nice feature and gives you supreme EQ control just through the deck. It has all your standard fade, balance and other normal EQ stuff as well. You can set one of the pre-amps to subwoofer or rear speakers which can be nice. There is a high-pass filter and low-pass filter and bass boost for the subwoofer. All the good EQ stuff you could ever want.
Oh yes colors! You can change the colors of the buttons and the display area separately or together, so for instance all your buttons can be neon green and your display can be hot pink. There are 26 preset colors (every normal color you can think of), and then there are also 3 different color changing presets, which means that it will smoothly cycle through different color sets which is pretty cool. Then of course you can edit your own colors with R G B inputs so there is technically 30,000 different colors you can choose from. Another cool thing with the colors is the day night settings. Of course when you turn on your headlights this head unit will change the brightness, you set the brightness you want for day and night, it's preset to 30 for day and 15 for night which is perfect. HOWEVER you can also set different colors for day and night. So if you can see a certain color better in daylight you can have your deck display that during the day and the second you switch your headlights on it changes to a different color scheme, fucking nifty!
Ok SQ! I had a Pioneer DEH-1900MP from the previous owner before this, not much to compare to, but this one sounds a lot better at all EQ levels (this is with speakers running of the head unit only in both cases). I'll be finishing my install soon so head unit's amp won't really mean much. So not to much to discuss here HEH, however if you are going to run your speakers off head unit only this one works great, rated at 20x4rms so pretty standard.
Radio, comes in great, my power antenna doesn't work so I have it in the down position and with the last deck it got fuzzy reception at times, this one seems to get almost perfect reception all the time even with the antenna down, go figure! Also has some really cool preset features. There is automatic scanning which will find every station that comes in clear and make it a preset or manual, auto or manual regular tuning, all very intuitive and easy. One really nice thing though is you can store names for up to 30 stations! I think that is pretty wicked.
Well that's a pretty huge description hopefully I got everything, of course you can go to the link up top to see the specs, it is pretty capable of everything, ipod, iphone, bluetooth, xm, hd, pandora, etc, etc...
I'll take some pictures tonight of it to show you all how it looks.
Cheers!
JVC KD-R720
Have to give props, this seems to be truly an amazing head unit for it's price. Tomorrow I'm going to install it and I'll let you all know how it performs!
No affiliations with Sonic (they just have good pricing & great product descriptions) or JVC, just thought I'd share the love!
EDIT: Review
Ok finally got around to toying with it this morning and played with a bunch of the features. First off the build quality is great! Doesn't feel cheap, the buttons are solid and smooth and not light and wobbly or anything. The volume knob is nice smooth quality, rubber grip ring, feels good, adjusts volume smoothly. The remote is VERY small, which I like and very simple, has only the necessary buttons needed and not cluttered.
This may be a small thing but to me it shows that the manufacturer cares at least a little more. Packing was very nice, solid and organized. Every single item was labeled and had little descriptions (making things very user friendly). The manual is very detailed yet it is very precise, starts off with the things you want to address first then goes through all the topics with all the information you need and not a tad more.
Functionality is great! It does everything you can ever imagine, yet it is VERY intuitive and nothing is hard to navigate to. It has front and rear usb and a front aux. The rear usb is on a pretty long cable with a female usb input on the end. I routed it behind the deck and down under the center console so it will come out through the ash tray. The second you plug in your ipod it reads it and switches over to whatever mode you have it set to (controlling it through the deck or through the ipod). I have it set to head mode so I can search through my ipod on the deck, which is very easy and set up exactly how the ipod is. Works fast and flawlessly.
It has a few (5 or 6 I believe) preset EQ settings, or you can easily adjust the EQ, bass, treble, mid (from -6 to +6). However you can also go through and edit the xover points for bass, treble and mid which is always a very nice feature and gives you supreme EQ control just through the deck. It has all your standard fade, balance and other normal EQ stuff as well. You can set one of the pre-amps to subwoofer or rear speakers which can be nice. There is a high-pass filter and low-pass filter and bass boost for the subwoofer. All the good EQ stuff you could ever want.
Oh yes colors! You can change the colors of the buttons and the display area separately or together, so for instance all your buttons can be neon green and your display can be hot pink. There are 26 preset colors (every normal color you can think of), and then there are also 3 different color changing presets, which means that it will smoothly cycle through different color sets which is pretty cool. Then of course you can edit your own colors with R G B inputs so there is technically 30,000 different colors you can choose from. Another cool thing with the colors is the day night settings. Of course when you turn on your headlights this head unit will change the brightness, you set the brightness you want for day and night, it's preset to 30 for day and 15 for night which is perfect. HOWEVER you can also set different colors for day and night. So if you can see a certain color better in daylight you can have your deck display that during the day and the second you switch your headlights on it changes to a different color scheme, fucking nifty!
Ok SQ! I had a Pioneer DEH-1900MP from the previous owner before this, not much to compare to, but this one sounds a lot better at all EQ levels (this is with speakers running of the head unit only in both cases). I'll be finishing my install soon so head unit's amp won't really mean much. So not to much to discuss here HEH, however if you are going to run your speakers off head unit only this one works great, rated at 20x4rms so pretty standard.
Radio, comes in great, my power antenna doesn't work so I have it in the down position and with the last deck it got fuzzy reception at times, this one seems to get almost perfect reception all the time even with the antenna down, go figure! Also has some really cool preset features. There is automatic scanning which will find every station that comes in clear and make it a preset or manual, auto or manual regular tuning, all very intuitive and easy. One really nice thing though is you can store names for up to 30 stations! I think that is pretty wicked.
Well that's a pretty huge description hopefully I got everything, of course you can go to the link up top to see the specs, it is pretty capable of everything, ipod, iphone, bluetooth, xm, hd, pandora, etc, etc...
I'll take some pictures tonight of it to show you all how it looks.
Cheers!
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