I had a Pioneer Avic F700BT double din for the past 3 years or so...
I just sold it because I want to change things up, the UI was a bit clunky and slow for my tastes (even with custom 3.1 firmware with several hacks), the bluetooth wasn't reliable with my iphone 3gs, often I would have to manually turn the bluetooth off/on the deck to get it to connect.
I don't need nav, as I have the tomtom app on my iphone which is killer and the iphone sits perfectly right in the gauge cluster above the steering wheel and doesn't slide around with my otterbox case.
but I do want green lighting to match the stock dash, bluetooth, bluetooth streaming, usb ipod control, aux input, I don't need a cd player as I never used it on the pioneer...
I'd prefer the USB and aux inputs to be on the rear so I can cleanly route the wires to my glovebox, but another set on the face would be nice too.
I've been browsing cruthfield/amazon/sonicelectronix for several days off and on, and I keep going back to this JVC deck -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
Kenwood makes this which looks pretty good too -
http://www.amazon.com/Kenwood-DPX503-Dual-DIN-Receiver-External/dp/B001IBD9US/ref=pd_cp_e_3
but it costs another $140 for the stupid bluetooth kit.
anybody have any other alternative suggestions? I want to spend $250 at the most, as I sold my old deck for $280.
internal amp doesn't matter, but I would prefer clean preamp signals, 2.5v minimum (but I'd like 4v) with assignable HPF and LPF on the outputs like my pioneer had. I have a kenwood 75x2 RMS amp powering my set of JL 6.5" components up front, and an MTX 300watt? single channel class D amp powering a 10" Boston sub in the trunk. I removed the rear mach460 amp rack/speakers.
I just sold it because I want to change things up, the UI was a bit clunky and slow for my tastes (even with custom 3.1 firmware with several hacks), the bluetooth wasn't reliable with my iphone 3gs, often I would have to manually turn the bluetooth off/on the deck to get it to connect.
I don't need nav, as I have the tomtom app on my iphone which is killer and the iphone sits perfectly right in the gauge cluster above the steering wheel and doesn't slide around with my otterbox case.
but I do want green lighting to match the stock dash, bluetooth, bluetooth streaming, usb ipod control, aux input, I don't need a cd player as I never used it on the pioneer...
I'd prefer the USB and aux inputs to be on the rear so I can cleanly route the wires to my glovebox, but another set on the face would be nice too.
I've been browsing cruthfield/amazon/sonicelectronix for several days off and on, and I keep going back to this JVC deck -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846
Kenwood makes this which looks pretty good too -
http://www.amazon.com/Kenwood-DPX503-Dual-DIN-Receiver-External/dp/B001IBD9US/ref=pd_cp_e_3
but it costs another $140 for the stupid bluetooth kit.
anybody have any other alternative suggestions? I want to spend $250 at the most, as I sold my old deck for $280.
internal amp doesn't matter, but I would prefer clean preamp signals, 2.5v minimum (but I'd like 4v) with assignable HPF and LPF on the outputs like my pioneer had. I have a kenwood 75x2 RMS amp powering my set of JL 6.5" components up front, and an MTX 300watt? single channel class D amp powering a 10" Boston sub in the trunk. I removed the rear mach460 amp rack/speakers.