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4.5 stars
"amazing all in one product; it boggles the ming what it can do."
Pros: Small, easy installation, easy menu, price, performance.
Cons: If were touch screen... wow. a little hard to move playlists around
Summary: This unit is amazing. When people step into my car, they immediately see head unit, and are amazed with the music videos i normally view. To start, I bought this unit from Abes of Maine, and they were great to work with. Very good customer service.
Installation:
Next once i got the unit, it was a breeze doing the usual installation. Then came hooking up the GPS. You just ground the parking brake wire, and find the speed pulse(mine was right in the old head unit, so it was easy to find the wire and connect it, go to your local audio store to find the wire).
CD Player/hard drive: The waiting on loading your cd's to the KD NX5000 is prety fast. Of course you have to wait about 2 minutes for a normal CD, but just think of going to your local store and just leave your car on for 2 min, and have it coipy while your in there. To set the name of your album or genre, is a little hastle, but not too bad, would be nice if you could just title the cd while it's copying. But it's versitility is amazing. Being able to play music, then with the push of the button you have the map, then with another push of the av, you get the tuner or hard drive or the cd. It's very simple, my stupid room mate figured it out easily. Just a few things to maybe change for later models, but it doesn' hurt the product at all.
Navigation:
Now to talk about the gps a little. it is very good with directions, turn by turn voice guidance/ text to speech. It will tell you the name to the roads to turn on to. Plus it gives you plenty of notice before you turn. It also lowers the music, and plays the direction over the music, which helps when your watching a movie/ music video. The POI is also helpful and easy to use, the only problem is that you need to know what town the store your looking for is in, unless your using the vicinity mode, which is where your located around. I have previously had a garmin and a tom tom, and from my experience the garmin worked great and the new JVC works just as easily(just stay away from tom tom). Plus it is easy to plug in multiple destinations, and move them around if needed(for those delivery guys/girls out there). And calculates very quickly.
I would definitely recommend this product for anyone looking for a gps unit, that won't be taken out of the car, and the ease of not shuffling through cd's or entertaining other while your driving. And you can't be the price compared to the avic z1, and the eclipse avn 5945(i think). Either way, 700 versus 2000, there is not much of a difference, for what you recieve, if you even recieve more from the other units.
What's missing
Would be nice if they had a remote control with the alphabet on it for letter entry during address finding, and naming folders in the hard drive. It would also be nice having a visual/screen saver when your just playing music.
All in all, you can't beat this, if your car can't take a double din, or if your looking to bargain shop, this is the as they state, the best dollar per inch you can invest in.
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Hello,
Thanks for your great review!
One question : you're saying it's quite long when having to put a name on mp3s you loaded on the HDD. But I suppose it is possible to use a CD directly filled with mp3 (and not just with CD Audio files), and to copy these mp3 into the HDD (so that they already have tags?)
Thanks for your answer
Where to buy
JVC KD-NX5000:
$922.99
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