Elegant design, good sound quality, but awkward to use underground

There's nothing like a device with knobs and buttons, which a function is assigned. This is particularly evident in this device. Since tens of years, a standard was established for car radios, in which one has eg one pushbutton for a preset station, with which you can simply save by pressing and holding the just listened to stations. The point of this device is not, of course, since one has generously dispensed with buttons and instead must call a list of preset stations on the preset button has to zap through the list and then finally be able to store a preset.

Even more complicated is the activation and deactivation of the traffic messages. In any normal car radio there for a button, that's it. But here you have to go into the depths of the basic settings.

If you are lucky enough to have a car that briefly interrupts the power supply to the radio at the start, one must wait perceived eternities until everything again is loaded, although I am not quite clear what is behind the illustrated long message "Downloading "probably want to load. The RDS is probably not who dive occasionally out.

In short, my now at least third Kenwood, the most expensive and much worst. It is precisely when driving I want to have an easy-to-use device.

Speaking of service, a printed manual to you has also saved. You really have to make the effort to load the instructions as PDF from the Internet and then set with a smart phone or laptop into the car to get to operate the device. Incidentally, the first car radio of my life, for which I would have used a guide.

In the settings there is an infinite number of settings that are not necessarily self-explanatory and not all be explained in PDF.

So nothing for normal people, more for techies.