is this a good head unit

[bobiseverywhere]

I have no idea about Sounds systems. When i was sold my car the guy who sold it to me ripped out his nice head unit amps and Subs. All i have in the car are the speakers in the stock location. I have no idea what brand. I know the fronts look like carbon Fiber for the cone and they have a tweeter as far as i can tell in the middle of the cone.

This is the head unit i was looking at. I wanted to get one that would be a good for now but also somehting i would not have to change later to put in a better sounds system

Its a JVC KD-G820
http://www.bestbuy.ca/multimedia/products/large/10071823.jpg

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JVC-KD-G820-CAR-STEREO-CD-MP3-PLAYER-RECEIVER-USB-INPUT_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ43947QQihZ008QQitemZ180064615742QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW


If this is not a good unit. Then what is for aporx the same price and funcionality. I like the USB bit for pluging in a USB Stick with MP3's especially since you can get some huge USB Sticks now. Ipod bit is always good. The Satalite radio is cool, but i dont think i will ever use it. Obviously i want the basics like MP3 Cd's and that stuff. I have not seen a regular head unit that will do DVD-MP3 Discs. I think only some of the nice screen ones will do that right?

either way please endow some of your great knowledge on me :)

[bobiseverywhere]

any one????

[ValgeKotkas]

Damn, why did I let my dada buy the HU I have :( The USB ones are sooo much more usefuller

[bobiseverywhere]

:) the USB might be good but i have no idea about the rest of the unit lol

[lagged]

i have an alpine with an ipod cable and its the coolest thing. you can control the ipod from the head unit and it charges your ipod at the same time.

[coreybear08]

i LOVE my JVC!!!!!

simple as that!! easy to use...clean looks...amazing performance!!

its a good head unit IMO and that USB drive will be SOOOOOOO useful!! not to mention if you dont have a USB drive you can always put music on a CD in data form and have yourself a niice little cd with over 100songs easily

[GotToyota?]

That's a very good headunit, top of the line for JVC and pretty much top of the line overall. That's definently a good deal on Ebay, it retails at my work for $260.

-Matt

[Dirgle]

I have no love for JVC, only because I have found there internal amps to be a little on the weak side. It does not take much for them to burn out. Luckly the IC's are really cheap( $5- $10), so if they do burn out and your good with a soldering iron they are cheap to fix.

[bobiseverywhere]

cool thnx for all the feedback everyone

[JB91389]

I got the 720 and its great!

[bobiseverywhere]

oh cool

Can you give me any pros and cons you have seen?

[Facime]

I bought THIS ONE (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=004&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&viewitem=&item=140065460882&rd=1&rd=1) and I love it. Not only was price amazing, but the feature set is incredible and provides a ton of tuning potential. A couple of the features not mentioned in the blurbs about it that I found out when I read the manual is that you can set the crossover frequency internally for the ront and rear channels seperately and it also allows you to choose the type of speakers you are running on each cahnnel and the deck optomizes output for them. So for example I have my front channel set to HPF 120Hz and optomized for 4"/5" speakers.

Ita lso comes with a software disk that installs a very good "media manager" thats better than Windows Media Player and similiar to iTunes. It is specifically written for the Kenwood HU and when you create your USB library it writes a voice prompt that tells you the folder you are switching to.

And yes, USB is sweet. Im using a flash drive for right now, but Im going to buy a 100-120GB 2.5" portable hard drive and load my entire music library on it and hide it in my center console. I will never need to use the CD function ever again.

PS. that link is my actual auction, thats what I paid for it, That deck retails for $249. Check this guys auction list...he has really good prices on Kenwood. The shipping was incredibly fast and the product was a brand new box, never been opened.

[bobiseverywhere]

thnx i will check it out

[Turbo. Targa. Life.]

Good luck with that 120gb hard drive--that unit will only read up to 3gb...or is it 1gb?...I don't remember but it isn't very much. The unit itself is a big marketing ploy and a piece of poo to be honest. :D

[Facime]

Which deck are you refering to? My Kenwood reads my 20GB portable drive and works great. I have my entire musci library on it and cant see needing the CD portion ever.

[Turbo. Targa. Life.]

Sorry for the confusion, was referring to the JVC. I work at CC and we carry them, they're crud.