Pyle PLDN73I

I purchased my unit after seeing one in a friends vehicle. After I got over the fact that he had a double din in-dash unit as opposed to some cheesy pop-up one he told me how much he paid so I had to have one. It had the features I wanted and a price that was quite shocking. The unit was pretty easy to use if you know your way around car stereos. Forget getting GPS with this, doesn't come with it and the unit they offer to enable GPS is more than an actual GPS system.

This unit has almost every feature you would want. I needed a back up camera so thats basicly why I got mine. SD card slot, Aux for MP3 or iPods, plays movies, CD's and has enough power to make even stock speakers sound great. I would highly recommend this unit if you dont listen to the radio and if you do read chinese. The first unit I had the radio had almost zero reception, you had to be up high or real close to even local stations for radio reception of any kind. After receiving a replacement unit it had the same problem, and no it wasnt because of the cars antenna.
It also has kind of a cheezy looking screen. The other complaint I had was the chinese translated to english manual, very poorly by the way. If your not an audio expert and reading the manual that comes with this there is a lot of guessing left up to the reader. With the installation I had one wire that was colored wrong and not tagged plus three other wires that just were there with no explanation of what they were for. A call to Pyle tech got that straightened out.
I kept this unit for 2 or 3 months and replaced it with a Sony XAV60, only 10 dollars more and a nicer screen with all the same features with the exception of no SD card reader, and the radio works. One thing you can always count on for a Sony is clear, easy to understand manuals.
As far as Sonic Electronix goes the return of the Pyle was easy, no questions asked and fast and friendly service. I did not contact them on the same problems with the second unit as I did not want to give another one a try.
The 2 stars for ease of use is solely based on the poor manual.

Well this is the first time i've purchased anything made by pyle, and as it stands i'm fairly happy with it. Now i've been into car audio since 1998, so when i tell you i know what i'm talking about i want to understand i do. The two issues i have with this product is it's misleading menu. Ie the options for "tv" and "bluetooth" there is no ant jack for tv not a big deal it's just weird the option would be there. And the bluetooth it just seems that they forgot to put in even though it's made clear in the product description that bluetooth is never listed. The second issue that i have is it's completely unintelligible manual. I mean holy crap! You would think someone would try to make this thing make some sort of sense. And there are wires on the back that are never explained i don't know what they're for i would like to know.

But all that aside and trust me i put that aside or i would have shipped it right back to SonicElectronix and asked for a refund. I am surprisingly satisfied with the quality of sound that this unit puts out. With some tweets of course. Oh one more thing the fm antenna input is very hard to get connected and even then barely gets a signal, but i have a scion xb and those cars have in glass antennas anyways. And i didn't buy a dvd player with ipod and aux jack and sd card slot to listen to the radio. It's just a thought. One quick tip access the set up menu and disable the loud function. It kinda makes it sound like you're over powering the speakers at low volume like the impedance is wrong or something. So just disable that and forget it's there. Kind of like they did with the bluetooth.