Product Description
Car stereo
| List Price: | $139.99 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3202 in Car Audio or Theater
- Size: Single DIN
- Brand: Pioneer
- Model: DEH-4400HD
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.00" h x 9.00" w x 10.00" l, 3.20 pounds
Features
- Iphone
- Ipod
- Remote
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
By Joe W.
It is my sincere desire to try and give this equipment five stars out of five. The radio reception is great. It gets stations where my previous car radio only got static. I can drive long distances around my home (The SF Bay Area) and never lose the station. CDs play perfectly. Quality of the sound is as good as your speakers will allow. I can tweak the lighting colors of the unit to match my dash or almost any spurious color I want (Pretty cool!). I can tweak the sound bass, mid range, and treble. I can listen to my iPod via USB or the Aux jack. I can control the iPod directly through the unit's controls. Most audio systems have a dial these days, so if you're still pushing tiny little buttons up or down to change things like the volume, this is a welcome change. Unit receives digital "HD" stations. Radio, CD, and iPod track/song names appear on the display. The con part, why I only give it four stars? Complexity of the interface. If you listen to audio books, like I do, you can accidentally press the shuffle button right next to the pause button and lose your place. Very very bad. Then to un-shuffle, the response of the menu had a two second delay, so for a long time I thought it wasn't even working. Why even allow two different colors for the radio front. Overkill. It takes a lot of "garage" practice to learn to work this thing, otherwise no-way it's operable while driving. So, in summary, sound or feature wise, this audio equipment has pretty much everything you can want with the best possible sound, but expect to hunt down those features while parked.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By Ray G
This deck impressed me from the minute I seen it. I haven't had a Pioneer in awhile and forgot how good they are. The sound quality, features & price of this head unit are incredible! I love the fact that you dont need to buy another cable to use your iPod, the Apple usb cable does the trick. Unit controls all ipod functions beautifully! The color changing feature is great! HD radio works great too. I got this as a "fill in" unit until i decided which high end deck i would get, but i like this one so much i think i'll keep it! GREAT JOB PIONEER!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Verbose
I want to preface my review by saying:
1. I'm not an audiophile and I'm still using the speakers that came with my car.
2. I did not install this by myself. (Geek Squad did it for me.)
3. This is the first time I've ever upgraded the radio in my car.
So, if you have more experience with car radios and you're mainly interested in technical details, you may want to skip my review.
For the most part, I'm very happy with this unit. It's certainly far better than any of the standard radios I've had. I wanted something that could play files off a USB stick because I wanted to be able to listen to my own music during my morning commute (when all my local radio stations seem to think I want to listen to them jabber about random, inane stuff), and I wanted to be able to listen to audio books without having to mess with CD's. So far, this seems to work very well. Information is displayed about the current song playing (this is displayed when listening to the radio also), you can hit a button to put the tracks in shuffle mode, and you can scan through the different tracks to choose a specific one. I believe folders are supported also, but I haven't played with that yet.
I've also been impressed with the HD Radio aspect of this unit. For those who are as clueless as I was, many radio stations have HD versions of their radio stations. From what I understand, these radio stations sound better and can be picked up more reliably. Some stations even have multiple HD channels that play different things. These stations are free, but you need an HD radio to hear them. This unit can pick up the HD radio stations. I now have access to radio stations I didn't even know existed in my area. Fortunately, I now have 18 FM presets to work with. If you aren't interested in having HD Radio, you could probably find a cheaper radio that will still do what you need.
I've seen several reviews, here and elsewhere, that say this unit is difficult to operate. I would disagree, *IF* you're the type of person who's willing to read a manual. (It's only a few pages.) The unit certainly seems more complex at first if you're used to the simple radios that come with most cars. When I was driving home with my newly installed radio, before I'd had a chance to read the manual, I was hitting buttons that didn't do what I expected them to. But, once I got home, I spent about half an hour in my garage with the manual and played around with the different buttons. The manual is pretty easy to understand, and the buttons make perfect sense once you understand how they work.
For example, I think some people have been confused by the big round button. If you don't push this button and just spin it, it will increase/decrease the volume. If you push the button, it becomes your menu. At this point, spinning the button will cycle through your menu options, NOT change your volume. Pushing the button again selects the menu option that's currently displayed. Then you may have submenus to cycle through, by spinning the button again and pressing it to select an option. To go back a level in the menu system, you simply hit the left arrow which is found to the left of the big round button. If you hit the left arrow enough times, you'll back out of the menu system altogether and your knob will function as a volume adjustor again. There are several other buttons that do different things, but it's all really easy to understand if you just take a little bit of time to play with the radio while reading the manual.
The only real complaint I have so far is regarding the text on the display screen. If you're driving in bright sun, you CANNOT read this text no matter what color you make it. I sat at a traffic light in the sun and cycled through all the colors trying to find one I could read. At best, I could tell there were words on the screen but I couldn't read them. This could be a problem if you live in a sunny state like I do. Not all sun is a problem; it depends on the intensity and the direction it's coming from. What I've found is that, when the sun got bright enough to induce me to pull my visor down even though I was wearing sunglasses, that was when I could no longer read the display. Being able to change the colors is cool, but I'd rather be able to always read the screen if I had to choose between the two. I did not have this problem with my original radio. Sometimes the sun would create a glare that made it harder to read, but I could still make out what it said.
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