ok so i installed this today......
initial thoughts and impressions.


the good
its amazing and super easy to install.
im not very technical and dont know my way around the workings of a car, but the whole thing took me less than an hour.
super easy.

i had a dension ice link in my X5 previous to the media bridge which i removed today (put in by "professionals"). so thats what im comparing it to.
sound quality over USB is second to none. its better than my dension, not sure why though......? but its a marginal difference.

The bluetooth functionality has my wife in love with the car all over again.

the bad
1-the most worrying thing is the audio quality over a2dp. i can definately hear a slight echo, which is ruining my music for me! i tried a different iphone and ipad, updated the software on the mediabridge. i also toggled the EQ settings on the car and the iphone but no joy, over bluetooth audio quality is noticeably worse than over USB, almost to a point where i cant bare the bluetooth audio. which is a big shame.
although, my wife has not noticed it!

2-this is a bit annoying. when skipping tracks on USB it makes my nav unit come out of map view and sticks on track/song view, meaning i have to manually put it back to map view. over bluetooth audio it inconsistently does this, hence why i would prefer to use bluetooth for music.

3-the voice over on the phone is kinda pointless. when my phone rings the voice reads out the first 2 digits and then it starts ringing.

4-couldnt quite figure out how to get TTS to work for text messages.

5-the manual states that my nav unit should display song name and then playlist name, but it doesnt. only shows song name and uses a tiny part of the screen to do so.

wish list
1-primarily for my issues above to be resolved.

2-for there to be voice dialling

3-for track names to be displayed in my cluster display

4-for the TTS to be able to say the contacts name rather than reading out the first couple digits of the number.


All in all would i reccomend it? yes, if you want to install it yourself and you get it cheap. (under £200) otherwise it may be best to stick to a parrot bluetooth kit and a dension kit as i had.


thanks!

PS-i should also add, i may have a faulty unit but im not so sure as the echo issue is apparent in a 3 series i was able to test it in over BT.