I have the Sony head unit installed into my Peugeot 106 and have hooked up a set of pioneer fronts components and an external amplifier and it copes very well indeed. The basic spec is 4 x 50 watts output with 32 presets and the usual face off facility, also 1 pre-out for either a sub or amplifier and an auxiliary jack.
Sound Quality The head unit comes with 7 pre set equalisers and these are great when you just want to turn on your radio be it on the way back from work or a simple trip to the shops. When excessive bass or squealing high notes are not needed. The head unit is great at playing simple music from the radio. The unit is also very good when you enter the custom equaliser mode and set it up how ever you like either with a thumping bass or a very clear crisp mid/treble. These three aspects can be adjusted form -10 db to +10 db so the range on this simple head unit is quite astounding. The volume rises very well and you don't have to wind the knob round and round loads to turn the volume up considerably. On the other hand you are not defend by turning it form 6 to 7. The unit has copped well when I installed my mutant amplifier and 6x9 speakers on in the rear enabling to balance the speakers not only from front to rear but also form left to right.
Special Features The unit can have an external MP3 player inserted or an ipod also a PSP, I have found as long as no equalisers coming from the mp3 to distort the music in any way the unit deals with the auxiliary input no problem.
Faults The colour doesn't change on the front of the unit and there're no fancy images flying across it. But as far I can see understatements are everything. This unit is a sleeper unit it doesn't look much but at 4x50 watts it packs a big punch.
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Car Radio - Panel Release, Panel/Quick Release - with CD Player, With CD-Player - without CD-Changer, With changer control - with MP3 Playback, With MP3 Player - 208 Watt
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