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The system consists of:
DDX-8017 double din Head Unit
KNA-DV4100 Nav unit
KCA-IP500 iPod adapter
DLS Iridium 6.3 3-way components in front
MB Quart RCE-269 6x9's in rear deck
10" sub in box built in rear deck
JL Audio 300/4 (for front components)
JL Audio 500/1 (sub)
Zapco Reference 200 (for rear deck components)
Acelle rear view camera
DDX-8017:
The head unit has a 7" touch screen and the picture quality playing DVD's is outstanding.. very detailed and bright. Only with direct sunlight on the screen did it ever get hard to read. One nice aesthetic thing is that you can choose between red & green lighting on the buttons, the green matches well with the dash lights. The menus are relatively intuitive but there are a million of them and a another million ways of tweaking the sound, crossover points, parametric EQ's, simulated surround etc. You can save your settings you can return to good sound after you jack it all up seeing what all the options do. Sound quality is very warm and clean (the DLS speakers are phenomenal) and I am getting very well balanced tone through the entire volume range which is nice.
Pro: Awesome sound, tons of functions, nice screen
Con: no steering wheel control until adapter is released.
KNA-DV4100 Nav unit:
Separate from the head unit & mounted under the pass front seat (I think.. haven't looked but that's where we talked about) so you don't have to swap DVD's in the head unit. The big issue with this unit was trying to get a signal out of the speed pulse wire (or VSS vehicle speed sensor) in the car that the nav unit would work with. Long story short.. it just don't like it. We had to proceed after trying several aftermarket options without hooking it up at all. My installer called around and there should be a CANBUS friendly harness out by the "end of the year" which will eliminate the following problems...
Since the nav unit is not getting a signal from the vss wire it never thinks the car is moving. I can input a destination and the nav will calculate and highlight the route but I don't get the list of directions or time left in the trip and if I go off the route it doesn't recalculate a new path (this is because it thinks the car has not started moving). The gps correctly places the car icon on the map and since I am not a total idiot I can just follow the highlighted route on the map to get where I am going until the right harness is available.
The touch screen head unit really makes it easy to scroll around the map and choosing routing options etc is all very easy and quick... even if I go way off course I can sort of work around the 'recalculate route' thing by pressing the screen & choosing where my car icon is as a new starting point and get the directions from there. My biggest complaint is that since it doesn't think you're moving it doesn't give you the list of text directions in split screen with the map. Again.. all these issues should be resolved when the proper canbus harness/interface becomes available..
Pro: Easy to use, good features
Con: Not fully compatible with our cars yet!
KCA-iP500 iPod adapter
One good point, the sound quality through the dock connector is far superior to the headphone output. Other than that it pretty much blows. Navigating the menus is completely non-intuitive and the menus are LIMITED TO 10 LIST ITEMS! not really enough to list 332 artists or 442 albums or even a measly 20 playlists. I have 35 gigs of music at my fingertips an no way to access it except skipping ahead one track at a time! It's just obnoxious that they would even release something with that limited useability.
Pro: better sound quality than headphone jack
Con: interface sucks
In the pics below you'll see the head unit & a couple of the ipod 10 list menus, close-up view of the wall i'm parked against from the rear view cam, the amps & the box too.
DDX-8017 double din Head Unit
KNA-DV4100 Nav unit
KCA-IP500 iPod adapter
DLS Iridium 6.3 3-way components in front
MB Quart RCE-269 6x9's in rear deck
10" sub in box built in rear deck
JL Audio 300/4 (for front components)
JL Audio 500/1 (sub)
Zapco Reference 200 (for rear deck components)
Acelle rear view camera
DDX-8017:
The head unit has a 7" touch screen and the picture quality playing DVD's is outstanding.. very detailed and bright. Only with direct sunlight on the screen did it ever get hard to read. One nice aesthetic thing is that you can choose between red & green lighting on the buttons, the green matches well with the dash lights. The menus are relatively intuitive but there are a million of them and a another million ways of tweaking the sound, crossover points, parametric EQ's, simulated surround etc. You can save your settings you can return to good sound after you jack it all up seeing what all the options do. Sound quality is very warm and clean (the DLS speakers are phenomenal) and I am getting very well balanced tone through the entire volume range which is nice.
Pro: Awesome sound, tons of functions, nice screen
Con: no steering wheel control until adapter is released.
KNA-DV4100 Nav unit:
Separate from the head unit & mounted under the pass front seat (I think.. haven't looked but that's where we talked about) so you don't have to swap DVD's in the head unit. The big issue with this unit was trying to get a signal out of the speed pulse wire (or VSS vehicle speed sensor) in the car that the nav unit would work with. Long story short.. it just don't like it. We had to proceed after trying several aftermarket options without hooking it up at all. My installer called around and there should be a CANBUS friendly harness out by the "end of the year" which will eliminate the following problems...
Since the nav unit is not getting a signal from the vss wire it never thinks the car is moving. I can input a destination and the nav will calculate and highlight the route but I don't get the list of directions or time left in the trip and if I go off the route it doesn't recalculate a new path (this is because it thinks the car has not started moving). The gps correctly places the car icon on the map and since I am not a total idiot I can just follow the highlighted route on the map to get where I am going until the right harness is available.
The touch screen head unit really makes it easy to scroll around the map and choosing routing options etc is all very easy and quick... even if I go way off course I can sort of work around the 'recalculate route' thing by pressing the screen & choosing where my car icon is as a new starting point and get the directions from there. My biggest complaint is that since it doesn't think you're moving it doesn't give you the list of text directions in split screen with the map. Again.. all these issues should be resolved when the proper canbus harness/interface becomes available..
Pro: Easy to use, good features
Con: Not fully compatible with our cars yet!
KCA-iP500 iPod adapter
One good point, the sound quality through the dock connector is far superior to the headphone output. Other than that it pretty much blows. Navigating the menus is completely non-intuitive and the menus are LIMITED TO 10 LIST ITEMS! not really enough to list 332 artists or 442 albums or even a measly 20 playlists. I have 35 gigs of music at my fingertips an no way to access it except skipping ahead one track at a time! It's just obnoxious that they would even release something with that limited useability.
Pro: better sound quality than headphone jack
Con: interface sucks
In the pics below you'll see the head unit & a couple of the ipod 10 list menus, close-up view of the wall i'm parked against from the rear view cam, the amps & the box too.
