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OPTICS
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The radio makes Outwardly really what ago.
Unfortunately, yes, the trend to ever use this piano lacquer,
Although looks good but you can see constantly the fingerprints.
The knob has on the surface and sides a rough surface
and therefore it also does not slide off so quickly.
Only the USB slot is too close to the button, would find it better if he would have been placed as the predecessor model at the lower left corner, but that's a matter of taste.
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DISPLAY
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The 6.2 inch display is in this price range really very good.
It is sharp and colors very powerful.
Everything is clearly visible even in direct sunlight.
If it can be a too bright during driving to exhibit it also.
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SOUND & RADIO RECEPTION
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He is again better compared to my Kenwood DXP504U.
Also, the pre-defined equalizer stages problem quickly adapt and make itself felt.
Also for the fine tuning is taken care of, whether for Rear, Subwoofer, balance (LR), fader (front and rear) or the cut-off frequencies.
So the radio reception is actually not so great, but not as bad as some have written here.
I use an antenna amplifier and thus the reception goes, but for a car radio is still not as good (compared to other car radios).
I hear I from time to time before a slight noise. But since I mostly listen to music on a USB stick, I can live with it.
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OPERATION
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The operation is really easy and self-explanatory.
The menu navigation is top.
The radio stations can be storing and select without problems.
Unfortunately, too little settings in some things, but everything is still okay.
Also there is to language only English, Russian or Spanish.
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USB
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Here the problems begin, unfortunately, and it shows up times that manufacturers test their own product only in the rare event:
1. Sony will only guarantee the playability of MP3 files to 192 kbps,
at all about it then drop outs!
2. The folder on the stick will be sorted by date and time, and not after alphabet!
What is this ??? PLEASE
3. you have a folder with performers and in a folder with the album name are only the Album names displayed and only these can be selected.
You can not select by artist.
4. It is recognized a 32GB USB flash drive, but you can max. Have 2000 files or 256 folders it, otherwise it does not recognize the radio.
In theory, the practice is unfortunately somewhat different. Already 1900 files it is critical.
5. The display area in the selection area on the USB stick is very narrow and can not be increased, thus you can usually only read half.
When playing you can then see everything well.
6. album art can be displayed, but only in ISO8859-1 plus Cyrillic ID-3 day and the cover should not be larger than 953x953. Used the freeware mp3Tag it.
Unfortunately, you have a top and bottom black bars on the covers, thus the existing display is not fully displayed, but I can live with.
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Xvid & DVD
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This I had to fight the most, until I had the right conversion settings found.
Although the display resolution is 800x480, the video resolution max. 720x576.
However, I have found that one stretch with the resolution of 720x400 + video running at its best.
I used to the freeware Freemake Video Converter with the following settings:
- In AVI
- Profile Custom XVID, MP3
- Image Size: Custom, width: 720, height: 400, adaptation: routes
- Video codec: XVID, frame rate: 25 fps, bit rate: 1700 Kbps
- Audio: MP3, stereo, SAMPE rate: 48000 Hz Bitrate: 160 Kbps
The DVDs can be played without any problems, regardless of whether DVD - / + R DL o, CD -. / + R or Video CD.
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CONCLUSION
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The radio has really taken me a lot of time and effort to all the correct settings to find whether for MP3 (incl. Cover) or Xvid.
Although some things are not comprehensible (arrangement of the files by date and time, display the file names on the USB flash drive), I am satisfied with the radio.
If you would listen to music, or want to use to watch videos.
Nominally car radio, it is not entirely justified by the mediocre reception.
Otherwise, you can say that price / performance but right here.
