Car Audio - Product Reviews

dfreeze - (January 14, 2005) After spending a month with the MyFi radio, I feel qualified to provide you with a review. This is the first review that I've ever done. I've found these so helpful in the past in making a buy-or-not-to-buy decision, so I hope that my review will assist someone with their purchase... When I first received the MyFi and opened the box I couldn't believe how much was included. One of the things that had prevented me from purchasing an XM radio before this was all of the "extras" that you had to buy. Car kit, home kit, etc. Well, the MyFi includes everything you need to get started! I'll break this review into 4 sections - Home, Car, Office and Portable HOME. The home cradle has

geoRB - (August 26, 2004) I have previously owned a couple of sony's and they all gave up on me. Amplifiers would heat up, optical lasers were sensitive, eject mechanisms would fail etc. I turned to Alpine for the well know reliability and built quality. I was ready to trade sony's good looks for durability, and boy was I surprised. Not only does alpine live up to it's unsurpased craftsmansip, it also kicks butt when it comes to features and superb menu screens. Sony's BBE gets remplaced by Media Xpander. Not only does this feature come with three levels of processing but it is also assignable to each and every source--different settings are stored for FM, MP3 CD's etc.). The sound quality is astounding and the

karkes - (May 05, 2004) Had great hopes and expectations for this unit. Got it installed and instantly the noise the unit generates is very bothersome. Overcomes music at lower volumes even while driving. As stated, map coverage (Dallas) was very questionable. Seems as if they bought some source that was years and years old - missing whole neighborhoods. We are returning the unit.

kibblesz - (12/02/2009) i shake everything plain and simple you can feel the bass blowing everything single thing its a monstaer highly recomended a ported box these things can be heard of my mrp m1000 //ALPINE

jtl10 - (11/16/2009) This unit is supposed to synchronize your phone's address book and call lists with Jensen head units - but it doesn't work with many phones. With Jensen's VM9423 head unit and an iPhone 3g, contact names show up as random hexadecimal characters instead of real names. It's not an issue with the phone as it works great with Alpine head units. Technical support is well aware of the issue but has no plans to fix it (apparently I wasn't the first to complain about this). If seeing your address book is important to you (and it should be) - DON'T BUY THIS UNIT until you've tested it with your own phone.

jtl10 - (11/16/2009) This isn't a bad unit, although the interface is a bit on the ugly side. However, there is one serious technical issue you should be aware of if you plan to purchase the bluetooth adapter with this unit. Although advertised and described in the manual as supporting HFP (Hands Free Profile) to allow address book synchronization with bluetooth phones, this feature DOES NOT WORK PROPERLY on many phones, including the iPhone. (Technical support claims this is an issue with the phone; however, I've properly sync the address book with Alpine and other head units without any issues, so this is simply not true). The issue was brought to the attention of Jensen's technical services and they've specifically decided that they have no intention of fixing the issue now or in the future. If bluetooth synchronization is important to you, DO NOT BUY THIS UNIT.