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Awesome stereo |
January-29-12 |
| Reviewer:
Rob M
from Belleville, IL
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Good stereo. I wish I had bought it for my truck instead of my wife's Wrangler. I may upgrade her stereo and move this to my truck within the year. Does what she wanted it to do...link up with her iPod so she could listen to music. The iPod interface worked flawlessly. Only problem she seems to be having is with bluetooth reception. For some reason it is intermittent with her iPhone. I have not used it with my Droid, but plan to in the future. Otherwise, it is definitely better than the stock system. Rob
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This was a great player until... |
December-23-11 |
| Reviewer:
Dan F
from Murrieta, CA
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When I first got it, this unit looked pretty promising to me. Everything works as it shoud and I love the variety of inputs this thing has. What I found interestingly is that each USB/SD input seems to have its own EQ settings. This could be a good thing or a bad thing - if I insert my music, I would prefer my settings to be the same for all the inputs. However, I do like it when I am listening to books on tape or old time radio shows which the EQ varies.
Now my gripes. The Bluetooth freezes up so often that I had to disable it. It streamed from my Android phone via Pandora without a hitch but the freezing made it unbareable. The only other issue is that the volume suddenly raises up or lowers down, depending on it's mood, quite randomly. It hasn't happened in about a month now, but like another user says, it could cause an accident. Good thing that you can power the unit down and turn it back on again. Overall, I'm giving this unit a 3 out of 5 stars. I would have given it a 5 out of 5 if the issues didn't persist.
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Almost the best receiver I've ever owned. Almost. |
November-10-11 |
| Reviewer:
Ryan J
from Tallahassee, FL
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I fell in love with this receiver the moment I opened the box. And that love lasted until it tried to kill me.
I have an otherwise awesome sound system in my Scion xB, including two Rockford Fosgate 12s in the back. Imagine driving at 50mph in bumper-to-bumper traffic when, suddenly, your stereo ramps up to full volume, pounding your subwoofers so hard that your windows are bulging in and out.
That's bad enough. What's worse is that there's absolutely no way to stop it without turning off the power to the unit, which means turning off the car. You can imagine how much fun that is.
This appears to be afflicting others, as well, and Axxera needs to address this problem immediately. This will eventually cause someone to get into a car accident.
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Returned it |
November-08-11 |
| Reviewer:
Dan
from Philadelphia, PA
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If all the features this unit has worked as advertised it would be a great deal but unfortunately it has two deal-breaking problems:
1. The FM reception is absolutely terrible. On my 45-minute drive to work, I listen to the same radio station (which broadcasts a few miles from my house) the whole way. With my car's stock radio I never had a moment of static or interference. With the Axxera, the station was not coming in great sitting in front of my house (I can even get this station on my cellphone's built-in FM radio!) and was totally gone by the time my drive was half over.
2. The bluetooth streaming playback suffers audio dropout, audio is just lost several times per minute for a second. It makes listening to music via BT basically impossible.
I ended up exchanging it (thanks Crutchfield!) for the JVC KD-R820BT. I gave up a few things (the JVC has dual USB ports but you have to use one of them for the bluetooth adapter, no SD card slot, and the controls and display are not as intuitive), but the BT audio streaming is flawless and the FM reception, while not as good as the stock radio, is much better than the Axxera. So if you're thinking about the XDMA7800 but you want to have a decent FM radio and good bluetooth playback, just get the JVC instead.
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Follow up |
November-01-11 |
| Reviewer:
Chris
from California
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I have had it installed now for a few months. One thing I have noticed is twice now the volume or the FM frequency ramps up with no input from me. Another thing I have noticed as I have a pretty regular routine is that both seemed to happen in the same area. Therefore since both these things are controllable by IR Remote, I suspect there may be some random signals being received by the receiver and not necessarily the fault of the receiver. But that is the only problem I have had - Otherwise a great product!
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