Cheap vs Expensive Car Stereos – TESTED
Cheap vs Expensive Car Stereos – TESTED
The stereo in the miata is an actual piece of trash. This week on Money Pit, Zach decides to test three different 7” touchscreen head units at three very different price points. Whichever fits the bill the best gets to stay!
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i had an old car and instead of getting a stereo i had my beat pill on the ashtray bumpin the jams not giving a fuck
I would enjoy for a video on how to install a backup camera- low (backup mirror) vs. medium (some wiring) vs. expensive AF (full wiring harness work).
Pretty sure brown is for a power antenna
The downside of both the brand name ones is they lack a volume knob. Thats probably the only upside of the $50 one. Not a big deal if you hook them to your steering wheel controls but if not a actual volume knob is much better than than having to push the small volume buttons along the bottom.
am I the only dude who thinks Zach has dreamy ocean blue eyes? I ain’t gay though. I promise.
From the sounds of the parrots you live in Los Angeles Ca lol… I love Pioneer better. Never let me down for over 20+ years
Nice color eyes
When the kenwood is worth more than your car
Kenwood or nothing baby
Can you text and drive using the headunit or do you have to be stopped to use the feature like stock units in some cars?
Isn’t brown wire for ground? I mean usually
the quality said no yes no
i wish you would have got into tuning your speakers. mind you with a stock speaker system it doesnt really matter
pioneer hands down is byfar the best, you can pay $90-1000 no matter what its good shit
he’s using tim the tat man’s outro sound lol
You have the Kenwood labeled as the dmh-1500nex in the graphic comparison chart.
How much is the pioneer head unit?
I really can’t imagine getting something like this in any car. Too much head down time. I guess I am old school. Give me a cd player, am radio for news and fm for music. Give me an input for aux so I can play crappy sounding mp3 and I’m good.
If it has android auto/Apple carplay, im down for any touchscreen radios because that’s the part of it I use most of the time
the mistake was not getting an alpine headunit. undisputed king of the ICE world!
Where do you go from 9 idfk maybe 10?
IMHO if you don’t need all the features, the cheap one is good enough.
In defense of the budget unit, I found that it does exactly what I need it to 🙂
– radio CHECK
– USB CHECK
– bluetooth CHECK
It plays music and receives calls (for if anyone EVER calls me)
Volume not an issue, as I tend to be in the car when I’m listening to it, and don’t need to hear it from a block away, nor do I need other people to hear it 😉
Carplay? No use for it.
"Feel" of the unit? It’s installed, and I never have to pick it up again.
Screen quality? Again, without using carplay etc, the quality is entirely sufficient for my needs.
Build quality can obviously vary, as my touchscreen is just fine.
Just my opinion, but I replaced my dodgy CD head unit with this, and I’m happy 🙂
I just bought the 2nd radio for $350, I’m scheduled to get it installed in a week. I’m so excited
8:26 your such a kid 😂😂
My 7018B costs $25 brandnew from a local reseller
So far my only issue with it is the no DSP thus shitty radio reception
But good thing it has Bluetooth and i just pair it with my android phone+underseat woofer
https://youtu.be/qycjCZ6h3xc
Pioneer is always better than Kenwood.
My mom:
-Can it be turned on or off via a knob and change the volume?
Yes. ✔
-Does it make a sound on at least 1 speaker?
Yes ✔
Congratulations. The car has an audio system.
lol u cant test headunits with crap speakers
Actually, having a CD/DVD player is good to have even though you don’t use it that much. Reason I use mine. Sometimes, I like going to the local music store, they carry a lot of stuff even HD Audio DVD/Blu-Ray. And when I pick up a new CD I can play it while I’m driving home. Though when I do get home I rip the CD to both a FLAC file and MP3 file. Having multiple ways to play music in you car is a good thing and there is nothing wrong with having a disc player in your car. Hell I used Cassette until 2001 with a 10 disc changer in the trunk. My band would record our practices onto cassette since it was the easiest way back then and listen back to the music we made.
Unfortunately the real reason behind the ugly and slow interfaces is because we got used to our phones and the software is much better on them than on car head units. Apple and Android poured billions into make the interface silky smooth and well thought out. Definitely not the same situation with car stereo interfaces.
Even factory car head units have ugly fonts, ugly icons and not well designed interfaces. on my 2013 Hyundai, it takes 4 button pushes to get to bass/treble settings, hidden under 3 different menus. I I could have said Chevy or _____ (insert a car manufacturer) . On BMWs, it’s literally a nightmare with settings on top of settings to an endless branch of options piled on top of each other.
I’m far from a pro, but I’ve been installing radios since roughly 2013 and feel slightly qualified discussing them. I’ve had boss, sound stream, SSL, pioneer, kenwood, jvc, and even the cheap o. IMO, kenwood was my least favorite. It had decent sound quality, but was a total pain to navigate. I’ve never had a pioneer let me down and even with their cheaper Walmart touch screen, the quality is great! The touch is responsive, call quality is great, very sturdy, and very simple. I love the audio quality of it, it can even make a low buck set of scosche speakers sound ok. Hands down my favorite head unit of all which I would love to see you try is the Sony XAV series. I’ve bought 2 and have ZERO issues with either. Simple interface, great layout, matte rubber bezel which matches OEM dashes really well as opposed to the glossy black bezel around the screen. Bluetooth connects immediately after initial pairing. It is a CarPlay/ android auto unit for under $250, and works perfect in that department. My only complaint(not a big deal at all) is when your listening to YouTube, there’s a slight disconnect when pausing a song and the radio catching that pause. It has a volume knob, it’s a single din with a double screen, and my most favorite feature which I have yet to see on anything else is the option to import your own wallpaper. For under $250, I don’t think your going to find a better unit with the same features. There’s a CarPlay dual for $200 which looks nice, but after 6 months in my daily the screen started to have issues going black. With a backup camera attached, it started to go black after the camera triggered off and the car had to be shut off to restart the unit.
I want that music video son, “POP UP!! POP UP!!!”
I just need something that can play my Spotify playlist, I’m working with a Bluetooth speaker right now😭😭
Y’all fucked this video all up… You should have compared a mid-range Pioneer to a high-end Pioneer, it would be more fair… Kenwood has been making pretty shitty high-end headunits for the last decade. However you didn’t even mention the benefits of the Kenwood, which include a dedicated GPS, more camera inputs, more video inputs/outputs, and most importantly *a built-in Digital Signal Processor* ! People who buy the high-end head headunits are audiophiles! To some people the music in their car isn’t an afterthought, it’s the most important aspect of a car to some people… The Kenwood has a built-in DSP and when tuned properly, it can make shitty OEM speakers sound better than you would’ve imagined. A high-end Pioneer would do the same, but better.
the ranger has been also selling in south america but steel is not as good as de toyota hilux
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If you’re going mid to high end, who runs speakers off the head units amp? What’s the rca voltage output rating on each unit, always run external amplifiers, otherwise keep stock speakers too lol.
J U S T I C E
Why waste time with that 50 bucks stereo.
"Sound quality – equally good to the others" Yeah… that wouldn’t be quite so accurate if you ran better speakers. A radio can only get the sound out as good as the speakers allow it too. Also, a Lot of the price comes from the rich adjustment features that these highend radios tend to have.
At the end of the video. Did I read that right with the eBay head unit, MP5???? What the hell???
Nothing will beat the single din pioneer deh-80prs
Pretty rad gopro mount.
Try turning on the car when testing sound quality. I once got a cheap head unit that sounded good when the car was not running. Then turned the engine on and the generator noise kept screeching in.
Alpine or pioneer
(churds burping)
Did nobody say anything about the fact that the word “score” is misspelled over and over? lol
Please learn how to correctly set microphone gain
just buy the pioneer they have always been the best
Pioneer imho is among the best for any sort of Headunti because the uppest price-range for aftermarket units is jnust stupid. how many of the "features" are you actually gonna use? and in terms of sound, pioneer speakers are well, decent not great but their headunits generally speaking have pretty amazing included amps. so yea, can definitly recommend.