Sony MEX-BT 2500

Author's product rating:   

How is the Sound Quality?	Excellent
Ease of Installation	Very Easy
How is the Look & Design?	Excellent
Range of Features	Excellent
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	Good sound quality, very good price
Disadvantages:	doesn't work with steering wheel buttons on some if not all cars

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Sony MEX-BT 2500

We bought one of these to replace our older Sony stereo, we did not purposely go out looking for this stereo but decided to take a look around Halfords and this one caught our attention, so we bought this Sony.
We are very pleased with it, the sound quality is phenomenal as is expected from Sony a leading brand in sound systems.

It has lots of modern easy to use features including,

Bluetooth Audio Streaming
Hands Free with built in microphone
DRIVE-S CD chassis which gives higher sound quality
24 bit digital analogue converter
MP3/WMA CD Playback
Aux-in for portable audio compatible on the front of the stereo
EQ Lite (2 Band Equalizer)
Blue Key Illumination
IR Card Remote RM-X304 supplied

It works really well with Bluetooth phones for playing songs directly off the phone, it's compatible with any Bluetooth phone.
It has a stylish modern design in black with blue led lights making it easy to see and use in a dark car.
It came with a remote so people in the back of the car can control the stereo easily as well.
The stereo itself is easy to use with nicely set out buttons on the front.
It also has a removeable front so you can remove it when you are not using it which could prevent your car being broken into.

The instruction manual was easy to understand and the stereo was simple to install and was fitted to the car within 10 minutes.

We paid £119 for it on an offer at Halfords with was very good value for money, it after went up to £130 which is still a responsible price and good value for money. I know lots of people who have bought these stereos and are very happy with them.

We have not had a single problem with it yet the sound quality even when really loud high bass music is played does not become distorted in any way.
It is not affected by un-even road when the car hits a bump it doesn't jump.
This stereo also plays slightly damaged CD's like they were never broken.
The MP3 feature is very use full so you can have around 100 and more of your favourite tracks all on one CD and it will play them to the same quality as an original CD.

The only downside we have found to this stereo is it does not work with our Renault Laguna's steering wheel buttons which the previous Sony stereo did one of the reasons we looked at Sony stereos.

I would definitely recommend it to other people as the quality in every way is outstanding I consider it one of the best stereos in this price range on the market.

Definitely worthy of a 5 star excellent rating.