Sat on numerous road trips listening to one of these head unit’s. Considered one myself before I had the opportunity to get to know them a little better.
Sound quality, yes moderately better than the CD30 but what isn’t? Compare it against Pioneer, Alpine, Kenwood even budget units like JVC even Beat, it cannot hold its own. This is due to like all its other generic low quality parts, the DAC converter and internal amp is very lacking.
The Bluetooth is very basic and out dated, most branded units use Parrot. Parrot is the market leader in phone linkage and Bluetooth in the world of ICE.
The Satnav is no better than you get free on cheap mobile phones, again completely left behind by the branded units on the market. Screen quality is poor and touch response in shockingly unresponsive. Menu is a little muddled up and very out of date in its looks.
Do they match your dash? Sorry now they don’t look the same.
People like them because they offer lots of features at a low price, and fit in the dash without much fuss. But are they on par with the rest of the market in quality and sound, sorry not even close.
If you’re happy with cheap unbranded electronics out of back streets in China, then this is the unit for you. If you like to have usable, much better quality ICE with much better product support then stick with the big names.
Simply “you get what you pay for”. If you’re prepared to sacrifice the satnav (a good branded unit would set you back over £550) then for about the same price plus fitting kit, you could get a double din that performs as in car entertainment should.
and thanks for the advice its just i kinda wanted to know what a fully aftermarket unit would look like as you can get quite alot of tech for the price of the eonon units.
