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So I was looking for a cheap android head unit w Dsp for my 2004 Nissan Pathfinder Le Platinum Series work truck. This one seemed to have the most Dsp features so I went for it. I’m a little bit of a Audiophile not to extreme, But I do have a nearly $500 android Hi Resolution audio head unit in my personal car to compare this one to. That said it wouldn’t be reasonable to have the same expectation out of this $65 unit, But even adjusting down for that I’m still very impressed with this unit. I would say the over all sound quality you get after installing this is maybe 15 to 20% better than a stock head unit in terms of clarity, separation and sound field. It has a well laid out, simplified version of almost everything feature wise my more expensive unit has. Just without some of the more advanced settings, Which makes it simple to get around and program which I like about it. It’s also very snappy and responsive to the touch. Even more so then my expensive 4 gig unit in some areas, Lol. It boots up quickly, The screen is very clear and sharp with more than adequate brightness. It can also be set very dim for nighttime driving. The amount of bright to dim adjustment on this is better than my expensive model, which I wish got dimmer then it does.. It hooks up to wireless android auto no problem and is no faster or slower than my other one.. Blue tooth works like a charm. The music player app is basic but quick and does everything you need. It found the music sub folder on my Usb stick quickly and was ready to play the files fast and with full track name lists. I haven’t hooked up the back-up cam yet, so No comment on that, But I’ll update when I do. I also haven’t tried an I Phone yet, But I bet it will work just as good as Android auto did. The Dsp Lay out and features are amazing for this price range. I love the EQ lay out which is a simple 30 band Parametric, There is no Q so you can’t grab a whole set of frequencies to adjust with a finger slide like you can on more expensive units, But The EQ is laid out on 3 pages and you slide the screen right or left to get to the next 10, It sounds like that might be lame but it actually works out great, You end up with One page with a 10 band EQ for bass, One for Mids and one for Highs. This set up gives you good finger sliding real estate on each frequency, so its easier to make adjustments while driving. You can easily hear the difference in every band of the EQ also. I wish My expensive model had an EQ option like this. The one it has is great, But its almost too advanced to make adjustments to while driving. I noticed this unit has a very similar layout and feature set as the $400 Kenwood 2 din head units. Almost as if that’s what they were trying to clone when making this. The over all Auido quality is way better with one of those, tho. Of course there are some limitations, It is only a $60 unit, The EQ only has like 8 settings, Rock, pop, classical, a couple others, one is labled Flat and the last one is USER, Thats the one you can set how you want. You can compare it back and forth with the Flat setting. But there are no other user presets you can save and switch between. Just the one, So that’s kind of a drawback. On my more expensive unit you can save multiple user presets and switch between them. The same is true of all the other Dsp settings, You basically get one user preset for each. But That’s still pretty good for the price I feel. Another draw back is that all the DSP settings control the whole system, front and rear speakers and the sub if you have one. I can EQ the front and rear separately if I want to on my other unit. This unit does have cross over settings, That surprised me, But again it’s only for the whole system which is kinda lame. It has a virtual base boost that lets you select the frequency range to boost with a separate gain control. This is great, It also has a Loudness boost feature that lets you set a frequency range to boost in a similar fashion. I have an under the seat active subwoofer, This unit does not have a dedicated Sub out sadly, Just Speaker level front and rear outputs and one stereo preamp rca out. I have the sub on the RCA outs. On the main EQ I set the bass frequencies low and then turn up the bass boost on the subwoofer it’s self to make up for that, Then I can use the gain slider on the virtual base like a bass knob, It works out pretty good like this. I got the Hyanka 10 inch one here on Amazon, You can’t beat it for the $110 price. Between this head unit and the sub it’s one heck of an upgrade for under $200. It is just a work truck. The factory Bose System is fairly good to start with. If you have a Factory premium system with an external amp like I do, I bought a gain adjustment box to put in between the speaker level connections, Sometimes the amplified signal from the new head unit is to hot for the amps inputs, and you will get some distortion, This allows you to dial back the gain if necessary. I’ve had to do this in the past. However with this unit I ended up cranking them all to the max, So really I didn’t even need it. Your experience may be different so I’d buy one here on Amazon but try it without using it first and if it works like that just return it. But at least you’ll have it if you need it. Also most premium systems are 2 ohm speakers Just an FYI, If you upgrade a 2 ohm system with standard 4 ohm speakers you will lose some power and some bass response even if the overall sound quality is better, Which is fine if you’re planning on upgrading the amp at some point, But if not buy 2 ohm speakers if you can, The JBL 3 ohm series is a good choice also.. Oh another thing about this head unit, The Usb input is very sensitive. If you are playing music from the Usb drive, and you bump into the USB stick with your fingers or go over a Hard bump or pothole, the song will reset. This unit is very easy to set up, Install and program also. Big thumbs up for the price it’s pretty amazing. Time will tell how it holds up…
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