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Crowz · #**172** 09-29-2017, 04:05 PM

While waiting on the obc stuff I figured I would do a mini review of how the radio itself is working out.

So far I love it. Its very reliable and functions perfectly.

As for any cons its more software related than anything. The music player which Im sure I can find something on the playstore to replace it with sounds perfect but has an 2 annoying issues.

One isn't its fault. The steering wheel controls I think act up when I first crank up and go to moving the car. It basically acts like the music player is in scan mode by changing songs until you push one of the steering wheel buttons. It doesn't do this all the time and it did it with the factory radio so its not the new radios fault for sure.

The second one is the music players issue. If you have it in normal play mode and go to the next song and want to go back to the previous song by choosing the down button on the steering wheel or the back button on the radio it works. But if you have it on random playing it randomly goes to a new song with either forward or back on the steering wheel controls or the radio controls.

Its not this units fault as all my android radios do this. I guess you need to make a random or shuffled playlist of your music to solve this. I tried figuring out how to make a playlist which I think did but I couldn't figure out how to get the music player to find and load the playlist.

That's really the only gripe I have with it is the random song issue. But again its a problem I have on my other android radios and I WILL solve this one day when I have the time.

Sound is amazing. I couldn't believe how much better it sounds than the factory nav. On my e46 for instance I have the harmon kardon system and it had the business cd player. Sound quality went down on it. The factory business cd has much better frequency response than the aftermarket radio and a much higher max volume.

But the X5 is the other way around. Much clearer sound with better frequency response and high volume levels.

The bass part is interesting. The speakers are filtered to cut out very low frequency bass. Im not sure if its the amp or filter/chokes on the speakers themselves but it definitely is cutting out around 70 hz and below. As long as your not playing music that has super deep lows you don't even notice it. Its not distortion its definitely filtered. The radio may do it too since it has a sub output.

This filtering should be perfect when I add the jl audio stealth sub in the passenger side rear compartment later. It will allow for killer bass with no mid and high distortion. Can't wait to see how it plays out.

I would definitely buy this unit again.

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