Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great GPS Unit!

I was looking for an inexpensive double din GPS unit for my truck. Most GPS units start in the $500 and above range. The cheaper ones are for mostly no-name brands that were a little sketchy. I saw this Eclipse unit and was a little skeptical also. Upon checking reviews, I found out it is made by Fujitsu (bought my first laptop from them).

Installation was pretty straight forward. If you have ever installed a stereo before, it is pretty simple. 8 wires for speakers (2 front, 2 back), ground wire, always on +12 and switched +12. That's about it - there are a few more if you want to hook up illumination control, steering wheel remote, etc, but I did not use those. The only other things you need to plug in are the antenna cable and the GPS antenna.

So far this stereo/GPS works great. It even has bluetooth, so my phone is hooked up and I can make/receive calls hands free. GPS is based on the TomTom brand and the GPS unit can be detached from the stereo to use as a stand alone GPS or so it will not be stolen. The stereo will still work without the GPS in place - it even has a small readout that tells you the station you are on!

The only extra thing you need to buy is the Eclipse Ipod cable - plugging the ipod into the USB adapter will not work. Plus it allows you to play videos from your ipod on the stereo screen.

Great unit for the price - it has features that units that cost 4 times as much have.

What a great unit !

Great unit with great features, fantastic product, fantastic price too!.
I can't imagine going anywhere else for my electronix.

Charles Green, Investor

The performance, the price & service are impeccable!

Great Product

Easy install in my motor coach with little modification. Good sound and GPS works great

avn4430

great unit & would recommend to everyone. the sound, durability is second to none

Excellent for price!

Installed a few months ago, great unit. My only complaint is I can't always scroll through my list on the iPod. Other than that it is an excellent head unit and navigation.

Nice for the price

A nice affordable unit, install was very easy, however I did not use all of the features (back up camera). It's nice that the shaped sensor does not have to be hooked up as you can use unit in older cars. iPod control is not the greatest but it works. Maps are from 2007.

Unit is ok, could be much better

My wife and up got this unit for our new Subaru Forester, and we are not impressed.

The user interface for both, the mp3 cd and usb files is minimalistic, the gps data input is touchy, radio reception is ok, and speakers output power could be higher.

Our biggest complain is the turn by turn voice instructions. It constantly goes mute, and the only way to follow the gps is by looking at the screen. This can be temporarily fixed by removing and reinserting the gps unit.

The price is great, but for about $100.00 or so, one can get a much better unit.

I'd not recommend this unit.

Not too bad

It seems to be a good value for the cost. It does have a couple of features I do like better than other brands. The rest of it seems to operate flawlessly. Some things are not as straight forward as they could be but once you get use to it, it all OK. The Blue-Tooth capability is limited so you need to make sure your product is compatible if that is important to you. I've only had it for a relatively short period of time so I don't know about it's durability yet. Over all, A good buy.

Eclipse AVN4430

I was highly impressed with the services provided by Sonic Electronix, they were prompt and courteous in their responses, and the products that they sold me was outstanding. I am truly ecstatic with the performance of their auto entertainment. The DVD, but particularly the auxiliary option was so dynamic. I was able to play from my ipad, & ipod.

Overall, I will gladly recommend this product, or any product marketed by Sonic Electronix for that matter to anyone. They have won my confidence and respect.

Horrible Unit

This is perhaps the worst head unit I have ever owned. The GPS is from 2007 updates are needed right away and it cost money to upgrade. Blutooth is awful when used with iPhone 4 no volume adjustment is available. Over all sound is muddled, music sounds like someone put a heavy blanket over the speakers and control of iPod is poor. The whole concept is great but so poorly implemented. It is so bad I had pulled it out of my new 2012 Subaru Forester and put in a Pioneer AVIC-D3 that was from a 2007 Honda Civic car of mine. Right away the sound improved and the Forester does not have very good speakers in it. Run away fast from this model.

Works great!

I have the avn-4430 installed in my 1996 Celica for about 5 days now. I could not be happier with the unit or the service from Sonic. First thing i did was to update the maps on the pnd. I don't watch Dvds in car so i don't care about that feature but i tried it and it works as advertised. Bluetooth calling works good but sometimes the voice just sounds too bad on the speakers, i dont know if its because of a bad cell connection or shoddy bluetooth connection. Another thing to note is that it does not have A2DP, so it won't stream audio, just bluetooth calling. Also, phone calls and directions are in single channel only so the sound comes from only one side of the car, Unit pauses the music when speaking directions if you are playing cd, usb etc, but not on FM radio. A small glitch that i can live with but to be noted nonetheless. Another thing to note is that it does not have auxiliary in. I am trying to figure a way out around it. Overall value wise, could not be happier. This unit was a perfect fit for my car and everybody who sees it is impressed. Sounds much better than my older jvc. You won't get better value on in dash navigation anywhere else.

Great sound from the AVN-4430

Had a JVC unit in my dash, but wanted built-in nav fratures at a good price. This unit is superb, sounds even better than the JVC Bongiovi unit, and way better than the factory stereo. Unit is easy to hook up, only extra I installed was the antenna for the nav, does not seem to need any other sensor wires for accurate location.

As for the sound, I am hearing details I have never heard before on my MP3s. The voice feature on the nav is handy, as is the ability to use the nav away from the car. Add built-in Bluetooth, and you cannot go wrong with this unit. A great chance to own a unique car stereo.

Good value for the price.

I replaced my existing 7-inch multimedia head unit without a nav which I found somewhat useless when you need to go to a place not familiar with.
Well, thanks Sonic for selling this at this price.
For me this unit is pretty and and really go well with my Honda Pilot.
The screen is removable and can be used by itself. The nav is very accurate and can be updated easily. Except for a lane guidance (which the unit doesn't have) I think it has everything that most expensive ones have.
Although its screen is only 4.3", I did not miss the 7" screen of the previous unit.
The ipod/iphone interface have some inconveniences but does not bother me at all. Like your settings will not be remembered once you remove your key from the car. And, something like it limits your ability to look for your music files beyond a set amount while the parking brake is not engage as what other owners have noted. However, you can still select the playlist and the shuffle mode.
For the video, if you have an overhead video screen you can connect this unit to it and even though the screen is blank when the car is moving, the passenger on the back can still watch the movie.
When your in the radio or Ipod mode the screen is simple white with just the info of what is playing. The time is in small characters at the upper right corner.
I tested the bluetooth connected to my blackberry and its very clear on both ends.
So far, I did not regret buying this head unit. And it does worked for me.
I hope this review like what others did, can help anyone to decide if this unit is for you or not.

Pretty good for the money

Well I can honestly say for the money it's a great little unit! I also love the fact we can use the tom tom in rental cars or any other car away from this unit. It has all the features you would want in a unit. However, the menus aren't very intuitive. It takes a while to figure out where everything is in this unit. Once you get it all figured out though we haven't had any issues. For a unit under $300 this thing really has all you need.

AVN-4430 for CR-V

Great product for the price. I consider it an easy instillation, although having wire connectors on hand is a plus. The kit provided worked perfectly. The Tom Tom unit responds better to touch than my Tom Tom VIA. I was able to install Tom Tom Home to update the unit. Disappointed that the blue tooth does not connect to my Lg Dare. Have not installed the back up camera yet. Note: make sure you connect all the wires available including the antenna wire. At first, I did not connect the blue wire out of the antenna thinking it was a ground wire.

Economy model/steering control issue

I tried this unit with my '07 Tacoma. The unit itself is ok for the price. The Axxess/ASWC steering wheel control adapter DID NOT WORK. The Axxess company rep was very helpful in trying to resolve the problem; but apparently, this unit had not been tested and just didn't work with the controls - even when I tried to manually program it.

The unit itself is not to user friendly. The most annoying discovery was that canceling a trip is hidden by default (you can change this). I tried the unit on an hour long trip and mistakenly hit home early on and had to hear 'Susan' keep telling me to turn around. The only way to change this setting and cancel is to stop and shut off the vehicle. Once you change it, it's ok. Some of the safety features (not allowing ipod to scroll down, and not playing dvd while driving) have value, but cannot be disabled. This can be frustrating (especially ipod control) when a passenger is trying to scroll. I get not distracting the driver, but their should be an override for a passenger to be able to use the unit without restrictions.

Perfect fit

Quick shipping and very knowledgeable staff. Product very unique size and works well in motor homes!!

Disapointing

I have had this unit in my car for about 1 year.
- No support or updates
- TomTom is not as good as Garmin, not even close
- Limited Bluetooth, calls only
- Half the time the touch screen doesn't work, especially after it has been on a while
- Should have had an external Microphone, sometimes especially when fan is on high people can't here.
- Video screen not very good and hard to see at all in bright light

It does have good sound