Since I had the KD-R 701 installed with my girlfriend 2 years ago the KD-R 801 and last year with my brother and there were no complaints until now, I wanted to originally the KD-R 721 set. Unfortunately, I realized that in this the display you can not change Arben (JVC saves apparently since the previous series, the Vario-color display, a), which is why I chose the next largest model, which is currently 821.
At this point, you can let off steam at the colors. You can adjust (if desired) for the day and night modes each have their own sets, which are (if the ISO plug is gepint right) then converted at light ON / OFF in accordance with, and in each case one more time separated the colors of the control buttons and change the display.
The appearance is slightly different from the product image. At first I thought that the entire front in black, but was able to discover that JVC has still installed one way or another Chromozierrat (eg ring on the volume control).
The operation and menu navigation goes well and slight of hand, the buttons are big enough and well reach for (with my old Pioneer were the keys for the folder / track navigation on the right side, here are all the left, the driver where they also belong). The folder structure is clear and simple structured (DISPLAY, AUDIO, PRO-EQ, ...).
Speaking PRO-EQ, the EQ can do the usual low / medium / high settings and also adjust the signal even in the frequency domain and in the -spreizung respectively. Thus, you should therefore be able to exhaust his boxing well.
Negative strikes me here, in comparison to my previous, 7 years old Pioneer following:
- Navigate from track to track, or between folders takes forever (the Pioneer takes max one second, the JVC approved here 2-3.).
- For a steering wheel remote control, there is no jack connector (only one control cable with 5 strands inside, just seemed yesterday)
- No sound compressor (Pioneer provides for MP3 playback to a compressor to compensate for the deficits sound of the MP3 format)
- On the radio, there is no direct connection for remote management of power amplifiers
- The attenuation of mobile phone radiation is bad (have a TomTom GO LIVE 825 installed, which now does at the LIVE service search a decent jets chirping in the pits, before it was "somewhat" more discreet)
Clear advantage over the Pioneer are, of course, the two USB ports, as well as the hands-free functionality.
With the handsfree I had some problems because my good old Nokia N82 not PBAP supported and thus can not access the phone book is possible. Once you have but the entries manually copied the radio in the store go one, or rather to the interlocutor, the ears. While I was before with the handsfree function of TomTom's somewhere in Novosibirsk on the way, the call quality is worlds better now (I was at least as said).
All in all, a good and sound radio, which can be well adapted to the conditions of the car, thanks to variety of colors and a speakerphone with this provides, but when decoding MP3s few seconds memorial takes out, at a very attractive price.
