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 List Price: $219.99 Sale Price: $164.11 
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The unit has both front and rear USB inputs. Listen to your iPod/iPhone music with USB full-speed digital audio transfer, while also getting it charged. The Variable-Color illumination offers 30 preset color choices and you can even customize your own color from over 30,000 variations.The Front AUX provides easy connection with digital audio players such as iPod and other external devices for playing your favorite songs on board. The unit offers smooth and easy operation using the menu key and the volume dial.
- AM/FM radio, CD, CD-R/RW, MP3/WMA, USB, iPod receiver with Bluetooth
- 4 x 50 Watts maximum power with two pre-amp outputs
- Detachable face with Full Dot LCD and variable color illumination
- Includes Bluetooth adapter, auxiliary input, dual USB ports, iPod direct control; add JVC modules for HD/SAT radio
- One-year limited warranty
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I have always liked JVC car stereos, and this one is great! The dual USB ports are wonderful. I routed the long USB cable to a place to hide the Ipod, while the USB plug on the front is great for keeping all my music. I have gained about 2 cubic feet of space by getting all of the CDs out of my car! I haven’t used the Bluetooth yet. UPDATE: I found that I can use 2 & 4 Gig thumb drives, but when I tried to use the 16 Gig Sandisk, the deck could not read it!
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Pros:
Lots of sound input options
Reads MP3 tags
Cons:
Display only has 1 line of text for song tags
Display is a tad too small
Poor blue tooth microphone implementation
Comments:
I can’t live without an MP3 stereo anymore. I first owned a cheap Chinese player back in 2002 and then I upgraded to a JVC-G820 in 2005. The G820 was awesome compared to most players at the time. I just upgraded to the KD-R800. It’s basically just like the G820 except with bluetooth and a harder to read screen. 99% of the time I use the USB interface with a mini 4GB usb flash drive. This deck is great for that.
Blue Tooth audio: This deck supports 2 blue tooth functions, input as a music device and input/output as a phone device. It works fine with my iPhone 3G for both of these functions. The blue tooth music functionality is basically a wireless line-in.
Blue Tooth Phone: This is my first blue-tooth deck. The phone functionality seems to work ok but it comes with a cheap microphone that only works when connected to the rear mic-in plug. I had to find a way to run the microphone cable from inside the dashboard to the outside of the dashboard. This was tricky to install and the micro-phone is a kludge on the dashboard. I think I’m not going to use the phone functionality on the deck because of this. They should have built a microphone onto the faceplate. I was amazed at the phone options on this deck: It was able to reads lots of information from my iphone 3G like recent call history, the address book, and caller ID for incoming calls.
Colors: JVC highly touts the “30k” colors as a feature. It’s neat at first but I don’t really care. The system comes with 30 preset colors and a USER option with sliders to configure Red, Green and Blue for a custom color.
USB: I really like the usb feature. I use a FAT formatted 4GB flash drive with lots of sub-folders and songs. My favorite part of this deck is that it displays proper ID3 tags. I read somewhere that a USB HDD will work too but I have yet to confirm. I will update this review after I get an HDD. The iPhone/iPod should also interface on the USB port but I have yet to try that either.
Sound quality: Good enough. I don’t have good speakers or a sub.
Digital Radio: Does not work out of the box, requires extra equipment.
Satellite Radio: Does not work out of the box, requires extra equipment.
Aux Line-in: Haven’t tried it.
Buttons: The track forward/back and folder up/down buttons are on a single square button that pivots and works better than I expected. The volume knob is near the center of the deck and looks and feels great. It turns like a softly notched mouse wheel and also acts as a button. The phone button is used as a shortcut to the phone options menu and can also pickup and end calls.
Overall: I like this stereo but it only gets 4 out of 5 stars because the blue-tooth microphone is a kludge and the screen is on the small side. Otherwise a fantastic deck that works as advertised and will support all your digital music needs.
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I purchased this unit from 6th Ave. Electronics. Its a very nice unit. As stated by prevoius reviewers the screen is small and hard to see during the daytime( but you shouldn’t be looking at it while driving anyway). The multiple color options will help in that department. Its cool to be able to change colors when you want to. As for sound I have it in a 2004 xterra and man what a difference in sound. This HU makes my speakers really put out good quality sound. I also like the fact that its a detachable face unit with two USB connections. I had a good friend put it in for me and he hooked up the bluetooth mic as well. The sound from it is good as long as the windows are up. The array of options from this unit is just my liking. You won’t be sorry with it. I can live with the small screen and eventhough its hard to see during the day I made some minor adjustments with the colors to help a bit. Overall not a bad radio from JVC. The ability to use my Ipod is a really big plus and was one of the reasons why I brought this unit. Also you can choose how to control the Ipod by either the Ipod itself or from the HU OR remote control once its plugged in the front USB port. If you put it in the rear one it will be controllled by the radio. Hope this will help in anyone making a decision on a decent HU.
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I installed this unit a month ago (nissan Versa, adapter kit costs $26) and I love it. The few buttons it has are actually very convenient to use, the display is beautiful (see *except* below), and the sound quality is excellent (I’m using the stock Versa speakers, but they work great).
I use the Bluetooth with my Razr, works great – I installed the mic on the lower part of the dash, near where the key goes, and people say they can hear me fine. Ipod works great (I switched it to allow the ipod itself to control, and routed the USB cable to the center console area between the front seats. MP3 CD plays well, though it takes about 5 seconds to start playing. MP3 8GB SD card (in a USB adapter) works best for me, although with FAT32 you need to be careful about long file names if you have a lot of files in a few directories.
I don’t use the AM at all, and FM only a little – the lack of preset buttons doesn’t bother me – just click “Menu” then spin the dial to select. The little square navigation button also works for change tracks/stations. Also, the small little remote is great – my wife and daughter use that instead of the head controls.
*except*: Now, the *almost* part is: inspite of the display being BEAUTIFUL (color adjustable, fairly large), the layout designer at JVC are doorknobs
. The font used is poor – the position of the items, and relative sizes are bad. Scrolling the font makes it flicker. All things that are purely software (they could have made this thing SOO GREAT). Although some things are configurable, I couldn’t address my particular issues (I want the CLOCK to be the most visible, followed my song title, then maybe track time – instead, they made the “USB REAR”, in a VERY readbale bold font and then GIANT USB logo, the most obvious thing, squeezing the clock down to the lower left, in big, but too thin font – then right in the middle of everything, the song title, also in the same thin font).
I have a glimmer of hope that a new firmware will somehow be made available for this exceptional hardware platform, but in the mean time I’ll just let my ears enjoy it, instead of my eyes
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I wanted USB and a radio that wasn’t Bright Blue. The display does any color I want and lets you choose a different color for night driving. USB works great, it remembers and restarts songs where I left off.
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user freindly the bluetooth works great and it has a great sound with my 10 subs
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I gave this JVC CAR RADIO to my son for his Christmas present. By next day he had it installed and was as pleased as ‘punch’. He being an Apple and a Mac fanatic he was and still is very enthused with the component as it is so compatible with his I-phone and computer. Speaking on his behalf-A great product.
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Amigos esta radio es lo máximo, mejoro la salida y fidelidad de mis mp3. Y la conexión con el iPhone es inmediata y súper fácil. Se los recomíendo bastante!
Billy Andrade
Guayaquil – Ecuador
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Item came exactly as pictured within just a few days of ordering. I didn’t expect it for at least a week so my son was thrilled when it arrived so quick. Once installed, the stereo and everything worked perfectly.
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Pros
- has 2 usb ports front and rear.
- has aux jacks front and rear.
- great value.
- easy installation.
Cons
- blue-tooth microphone is poorly designed giving poor audio quality.
- display size is too small.
- display font is too small and not changeable.
- display unit too hard to remove/insert.
- looses all setting once power is lost.
Recomendation: Good value for money too bad telephone audio wasn’t better.