Anyone have any experience with this receiver?

[5ickride]

Finally got my JVC unit in last night. I'll post some pics this weekend. I guess i should give it a try installing the unit myself...i dont know jack about installation. haha

[5ickride]

I hate waiting...(sigh)

T-minus 9 days.

[318Joe]

Tried again to stream music from pandora connected via bluetooth, using the "high quality" setting.

To paraphrase, my hearing must be better than "Stevie Wonder's eyesight".

So, I will once again be relegating my music to the USB drive, and using the phone to make calls.

The 805 is a nice deck. I enjoy it thoroughly. But as Clint Eastwood said: "...a man has to know his limitations..."

[StereoInstaller1]

Here is another review: Bluetooth streaming audio is somewhat better than FM, having a 60db dynamic range and a 10 octave frequency range.

If your hearing is better than Stevie Wonders eyesight, do something else.

I have no qualms with the deck, only A2DP. Why use a shit connection when you already have a great connection?

[sonick]

Does anybody else get random clicking/popping when playing via iPod? It sounds like a low-latency 'click'.

Not really a bother, just a minor annoyance.

[VacMan]

Nah, you just have low standards...I mean crap, if internet radio does it for you, go right on ahead...

I was using it for my music saved on my BB not internet radio you damned curmudgeon. Streaming CCR on the way to the airport this morning sounds literally no different than my iPod. I tried them both.

Here's a revised review for you: For those of us who aren't pretentious douchebags when it comes to audio, this head unit is great. Bluetooth and USB charging with iPod control. 9/10 aesthetics, 8/10 sound quality with stock speakers. It's probably not for people who put more money into the audio system in their shitbox E30 than their car is worth, but for the rest of us it is a very worthwhile upgrade.

Better?

[StereoInstaller1]

I installed my 805 tonight and I have no idea what you guys are on about. I was listening to my Storm 2 on bluetooth and the music sounded like it was it was plugged in. Maybe you guys just have crappy old phones with marginal bluetooth capability. Pandora has settings you need to change for high quality too; if you leave it in default it's in low quality for OTA streaming. Change it to high quality and it makes a huge difference.

BTW love my 805 so far.

Nah, you just have low standards...I mean crap, if internet radio does it for you, go right on ahead...

[VacMan]

Cool, lets see some pics. What else are u running? speakers, amps?

All stock. I put it in my touring though, not my cabrio. In the cabrio I'm running an Alpine w/iPod connection. It was so nice to be able to wire an adapter sitting at the kitchen counter and then just plugging it in. In the cabrio I ran all new wires and it was a pain.

I'll get pics someday, but they don't look any different than the ones on the link I posted earlier in this thread.

[5ickride]

I installed my 805 tonight and I have no idea what you guys are on about. I was listening to my Storm 2 on bluetooth and the music sounded like it was it was plugged in. Maybe you guys just have crappy old phones with marginal bluetooth capability. Pandora has settings you need to change for high quality too; if you leave it in default it's in low quality for OTA streaming. Change it to high quality and it makes a huge difference.

BTW love my 805 so far.

Cool, lets see some pics. What else are u running? speakers, amps?

[318Joe]

... Maybe you guys just have crappy old phones with marginal bluetooth capability.

Nope can't be that. I have the jesus phone. Everything apple makes is perfect...must just be my ears /sarc>;)

Thanks, I will check that out. It is a real pain to plug the phone in to the deck. Doesn't charge all that fast, and as soon as you plug in, it switches whatever you are listening to to the ipod.

[VacMan]

I installed my 805 tonight and I have no idea what you guys are on about. I was listening to my Storm 2 on bluetooth and the music sounded like it was it was plugged in. Maybe you guys just have crappy old phones with marginal bluetooth capability. Pandora has settings you need to change for high quality too; if you leave it in default it's in low quality for OTA streaming. Change it to high quality and it makes a huge difference.

BTW love my 805 so far.

[StereoInstaller1]

On a similar note, can you listen to music off a phone via bluetooth on deck with bluetooth? Or is the bluetooth only used for calls?

If you have A2DP protocols on both the deck and the phone, yes...but as explained above, don't bother.

[318Joe]

Both. But you may not want to.

At first I used bluetooth to connect to the deck and play pandora off my iphone.

Sounded like sh@t. Thought my new fact. tweets were blown - lots of distortion and crackling. Then I connected via the headphone jack, and all the distortion and crackling went away. If you connect the usb to an iphone with the bluetooth paired: total protonic reversal, or something similar. don't try it.

In my experience, Bluetooth is only good for talk radio and making calls. YMMV

[AndrewBird]

On a similar note, can you listen to music off a phone via bluetooth on deck with bluetooth? Or is the bluetooth only used for calls?

[318Joe]

Good luck. Be sure to give us a report and post some pics when you get it installed.