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This baby is supreme. |
February-18-12 |
| Reviewer:
Chitownben
from San Diego, CA
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Im gonna make this short and sweet. I am an audiophile i love the sound that comes from top quality gear. Mobile audio should have bling appeal and sound great. I bought this and along with the PHA X-100 imprint module, it works flawless and sounds butter, yet stings hard. Make sure you buy a PAC tr7 video bypass or you will have to pull over for all updates and go through the annoying Alpine sequence........Enjoy...
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Never Again |
January-05-12 |
| Reviewer:
bigmikey
from Dallas, Tx
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I put this in a F-350 dually. I had to have the dash modified (expensive) to get it to fit. The main problem is it broke within a year. The nav froze up and you can't change the time. It was also very un-user friendly with a lot of functions. I can place it with my three broken Alpine amplifiers. I don't know what happened to alpine but I'm done with it. Crutchfield has so many to choose from it won't be difficult.
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2005 silverado |
January-02-12 |
| Reviewer:
Olson070707
from Kearney Nebraska
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i am very dissapointed in this head unit. i have owned it for over 6 months now and i would already like to get rid of it. my biggest complaint is when you select a song to play you can not "back up" to the song list.really frustrating. with the navigation you can not just search for a city. you almost always have to enter an adress to get results. i would not recommend this unit. im also not impressed with the sound quality produced.
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Um... LOTS of flaws |
November-02-11 |
| Reviewer:
TW
from Las Vegas, NV
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I've had this for almost a year and I have to admit I'm disappointed in the performance of this expensive unit. When everything is running without a problem, it is good but feels clunky in practice. A list of flaws: Start of song on iPod always has crackles and pops during the first 3-4 seconds of a track (especially when skipping to a new track) and has to be the most disappointing flaw, you will hear a brief gap in between tracks when listening to a live album, you have to start at the beginning of the iPod menu to navigate through just to get to the song that's currently playing when you start your car (Music>Artists>Artist>Album>Song) instead of just being able to hit the button to take you back to the list of songs on that album that's currently playing (y'know... like an iPod...arrgh!), screen resolution sucks (album artwork is pathetic), graphics and fonts are ugly, causes iPod to lock up about once a week (requiring a restart on the iPod), system needs to be reset about once every 6 weeks due to the screen freezing, GPS software update was hard to find on the Alpine website and was not Mac compatible (c'mon Alpine, get with it) without using 3rd party software to unzip the file then was a nightmare trying to load it, GPS function stopped working altogether (a system reset fixed it), etc.
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May 2011 review of Alpine 900BT |
May-25-11 |
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John
from Las Vegas
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Installed on a 2009 Chevy Suburban (no Bose), with GM LAN adapter (on-star), and steering wheel interface. Crutchfield provided details while nice should not be expected to solve an install like I described above. Overall: I am satisfied with the product I purchased for its intended use. My requirements for a head unit were GPS, Bluetooth, Reverse Camera input independent zones for entertainment. Alpine met all these. Pros: Sound, acceptable GPS initialization spin-up, video quality (even after being split) Cons: Navigation display and GUI is outdated Crutchfield install direction expectation. I dropped this from 4 stars to 3 based on my install problems. Performance from the Alpine unit is 4 stars with the major hit being the navigation GUI. Install instructions were mediocre at best. I spent three nights prepping labeling each of the components wiring painstakingly and mapping my own wiring diagram to ensure a single source document. Specifically where to wire in a SPDT switch in order to have a switched ignition source was clear as mud. Audio/Video/Radio all flawless, only problem was BT did not work. Crutchfield support was a little slow to get in synch with me when I explained the head unit was not recognizing the adapter, though my iPhone 3Gs was. I was surprised when after going through each and every wire they were sending out a complete new unit, before I sent the current one back. That's a plus to Crutchfield. BT synched like a dream (and have no complaints since)
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