Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great value

Replaced factory unit in ram 2012,1500. Links to my note5 with no problem. Great eq and touch screen. I wish the volume stayed on the screen full time for touch function.

By Brandon on March 30, 2017 Verified purchase

A great choice!

I purchased this unit to upgrade my daughters Mazda MX5 Miatas' stock BOSE stereo. I had purchased a different unit initially, which didn't work out, Sonic Electronix gave me a full refund on that one! The Pioneer is exactly what I wanted. From bluetooth phone connection to USB and Aux. Note: both the USB and AUX. come out the back of the head and require a cable to connect too. Touch screen and menus are intuitive, background colors can be customized as well as themes. Also purchased Axxes steereing wheel control module and all controls work flawlessly. The unit sounds amazing. I highly recommend this unit and Sonic Electronix!
Steve

By steve on October 4, 2016 Verified purchase

Not bad

Works well installed easy just stuck on 12 hour time sounds good

Good Deal

Perfect stereo at a fair price. Bluetooth for music and phone along with a backup camera. Few issues wiring it up, but Andrew in customer service helped me get everything working. Thanks Sonic and Andrew!!

Amazing product, but you need to know.....

I would definitely recommend this product, infact I already have. The avh series is great. However the product compatibility with phones sways more with IPhones. You cannot use the applications through Bluetooth with Android devices and the android apps for it are annoying, unreliable, and require USB connection. I have read that the newer galaxies do great with these features/ are more user friendly. However the apps don't really do much anyway. The dvd function is absolutely useless without the purchase of monitors which would of been nice to know. The equalizer is the best I've seen. The HD Radio is pristine. The Bluetooth connection is great but spotty if anything is covering your phone. The matrix app is amazing but it is required to use an ipod/iPhone or USB-drive it cannot be used with an android device. Further more if you have music that was downloaded from sites that do not present full information such as genre, composer, and year the app is useless in that it relies on that information to create a playlist. The hands free phone call is great I've used it about twenty times and afterwards asked about the sound quality. From what I can tell the microphone that it comes with is great and provides clear call quality. One of the features that you can actually use with Android is the Bluetooth hands free call plus you can look at your contacts. You can also use voice commands, but if you have a lock on your phone you cannot use the voice commands until it is unlocked (kind of useless) I am not sure with IPhones though. All around your experience will very with what phone device you use with it. If you have a newer iPhone you are definitely going to have a good time, but if you use an android youre going to have a bad time. (Southpark reference) Sonic Electronics was very compliant and willing to solve a small mix up. They responded incredibly fast and I will trust them with my next audio purchase.

By Dalton on October 9, 2016 Verified purchase

Excellent product

Its the best product works with android, and any phones.

By Christopher on April 10, 2016 Verified purchase

Solid Product with a few small cons!

Love my radio. I had to have the iPod direct control, Pandora, Bluetooth and USB and aux. the Siri hands free is amazing. Everything is easy to read and clear. The only CON I can think of off the top of my head would be when I pause it under the iPod mode, I'll press play and it will play buy it still says pause so it's not counting the seconds on the songs. Like I said small CON but when you buy something new you expect everything to work the way it should. I would still give it a 5/5 stars. 9/10 rating. Or what have you.

Love this!!!

I love this radio!!! It is very easy to use and I love this the Bluetooth. It automatically hooks up to my phone as soon as I get in the car which is perfect because I always forget to make sure that it is connected to the radio. I would definitely recommend this to anyone.

By Kendra on March 26, 2017 Verified purchase

Great product

The stereo is exactly as described and theybare easy to work with! Very pleased

Great value

This unit has everything I was looking for and a great upgrade from the factory system my had.

By M on January 18, 2017 Verified purchase

Great value for in dash DVD

Pioneer quality is hard to beat. Great features and a great price

By Dan on January 9, 2017 Verified purchase

Great features!

Love this unit. It has everything I was wanting in a stere. Sirius xm, Bluetooth, Pandora, CD player, dvd. It sounds good looks good and is easy to use.

If only this head unit was a woman..........

She makes sense of any genre of music I feed her. The custom eq allows me the best listening experience at the will of my ears. Just wish it had more than 2 programmable settings. And the Sq is perfect. I can crank the volume to 40 with 0 clipping on factory door speakers on a 2004 vehicle.

Great Head Unit

This head unit has everything I need and more. The USB,Bluetooth,and Pandora are what I use the most. They all work great. It looks great in my car and I have very few complaints. My only complaints are that the touch screen could be a little more responsive and the USB connection has trouble with some of my MP4 files. It's strange that I have a flash drive with all MP4 files and it only plays some of them. This could possibly be my own stupidity, so I'm not going to fully put the blame on the head unit yet. Overall,it functions great,and the price was good.

By Shane on November 18, 2016 Verified purchase

Just what I ordered

Fit in 2005 ford thunderbird with no problem. Looks great, I added a back up camera also. I also added steering wheel control interface. It does not come with steering wheel control without that. Very happy with the audio system.

Excellent system

Salesman was very knowledgeable with what I was ordering and very helpful. Stereo system arrived in great condition and within a couple days. Very nice system. Only problem was the antenna adapter was the wrong one and it took me a couple weeks to get the AM/FM working. Works great now.

Very nice

The Pioneer AVH-X2800BS is a great device that I chose to replace my ride's 2007 factory system. This stereo can do it all. I no longer loose My XM signal. It is adaptable for GPS systems, backup cams (I installed one on my ride). It connected seamlessly to my android device. This thing is nice and the install was not difficult. Glad I bought it.

This stereo is absolutely great!!!!

It's got everything you would expect from a touch screen stereo! The equalizer are great for the audiophile! The settings are easy to understand
Great sound!!

By marco on October 24, 2016 Verified purchase

Good Unit

Installed this myself and love it. The only problem that I have had is that I cannot get the audio for my Galaxy 7 Edge to come through the speakers for the hands free calling.

By Bob on October 20, 2016 Verified purchase

Great item

Bought this item for my boyfriend for our anniversary and he insulted it the next day. Absolutely please with this item!!!! Has a big touch screen display with aux cord. Would definitely recommend this!!!

By Stephanie on October 7, 2016 Verified purchase

Lots of features

As stated in the title this unit has a ton of features both hardware and software. the only thing i am missing is a sd card reader in the front, but the supplied usb cable has been a pleasant replacement

By Jose on October 2, 2016 Verified purchase

great stereo

Good stereos would buy another one! Doesn't need anything else.

Nice stereo.

It's a little more difficult to set up once it's installed but don't let that stop you from buying. Just take your time and read the instructions. Very nice stereo and a great value. I recommend this product and would buy again. The sound is fine.

Simple head unit.

Great buy. Lots of value for the price.

I do wish I would've gotten the higher end unit. But I can't stomach the cost.

Great sounding feature packed car stereo+++!!!

Huge sound improvement over the stock stereo that came with the car. Customize equalizer presets to your ears. Play DVDs, CDs, USB sticks (a.k.a. thumb drives), IPODs and other sound devices with 1/8 inch output plugs. Works great with the backup camera I purchased for it. Only drawback is that you'll feel compelled to get album art for your music files to take advantage of the cool display...lol

Great value

Easy installation. My 18 yr. old son loves it. Customer service has been outstanding!! Gave 2 stars for Durability. Not sure why SE would ask me to rate Durability when I've only owned the stereo for less than a month.

Extremely pleased

Hi rarely leave reviews, but after my experience with Sonic I had to. I purchased the Pioneer 2800BS for my 2005 CRV. I was extremely pleased when the system arrived in less than 5 days! And I live in a small town in Canada. Package was very securely shipped and the system and hardware was all-included and arrived without a scratch.

I have also been contacted by Sonic since to confirm everything went smoothly. I will definitely be using Sonic again and recommend others seriously consider them as well!

By Kevin on July 15, 2016 Verified purchase

Great head unit.

Great head unit for the money. Sonic has it for 50$ cheaper than the other site. Using an iPhone 6 works great with usb and with Bluetooth. The pioneer apps don't work as good but Pandora and Spotify work great. Graphic equalizer and graphic cross over work good.

Pioneer Avh-2800bs

Good unit, more features than I could possibly use, navigation is too slow to be practical. Looks really clean in my Chevy Colorado. Btw just call these guys, they will help you get all the things you will need to install yourself.

Ground it seperate!

Great headunit overall. Feature packed and easy to install. The value for dollar is outstanding and so are the crossover/EQ functions.

The bad...

This needed a ground seperate from plugging into the harness to get rid of ground loop noise. Easy fix.

Bluetooth connection is sometimes a pain to get connected. Once connected no issues.

By Charles on April 24, 2016 Verified purchase

Khanh

Avh 2800 bs is very excellent, easy to use and the screen clearly

wow,

wow excellent product, recommended to about 5 friends already and still showing it off to others as well

Great value

This was the perfect unit for my truck (2008 Toyota Tacoma TRD off road access cab) You can't beat the price. Easy to install. Great capabilities. Easy to navigate. The picture resolution is great for the price. I highly recommend this product.

Great value

This was the perfect unit for my truck (2008 Toyota Tacoma TRD off road access cab) You can't beat the price. Easy to install. Great capabilities. Easy to navigate. The picture resolution is great for the price. I highly recommend this product.

By Tony on April 16, 2016 Verified purchase

Outstanding reciever

I can turn up my volume all the way and the speakers don't clip. I'm running Polk mm separates and my quart z1 coax in the rear off of an alpine Mrv amp and 2 kl audio w1-10s off of a diamond 1000/1 sub amp thru a tsunami 10 farad hybrid cap... Amazing headroom... Easy to set up and use.... Sub slope set up is a little tricky , but what the hell!!! What sound! The only con is the face doesn't come off... I should have bought the next model up...

great value

One of the best radios without navigation I hook it up to a friend of mine he loves you thank you Sonic Electronix the best price ever

Nice for price

Every car audio guru raves about how much of a great product I have for the price I paid. I would agree!!

By Jacky on March 29, 2016 Verified purchase

Very Happy

Pioneer is a trusted brand. Had Rear USB and touch screen was a plus along with DVD. Works great with Pandora except the artist and track get cut off by album art. great price when compared to other items with same or similar features. I read some bad reviews about durability but I am hoping those were just unfortunate events.

excellent head unit

I have to say this radio by far is one of the best l have owned, looks great, sounds excellent and the staff at Sonic very helpful on setting you up with all of your needs to complete your installation.
Not to mentioned the price is unbeatable...
Keep up the good work Sonic.

Unbelievable active functionality!

This head unit provides the ability to run an active set-up at a fraction of the cost of a stand alone DSP...and with far greater functionality. The ability to tweet the crossover points and slopes as well as the time alignment on the fly is simply amazing! Highly recommended!

By Andrew on March 4, 2016 Verified purchase

Great value

Very good for a novice in stereo equipment. Price was very good

By Robert on January 11, 2018 Verified purchase

Excellent Radio

This Pioneer Radio is just awesome easy to install and setup the sound is excellent I love the features it offer and for the price I'm truly satisfied with my purchase would buy again.

Ease of installation: Great value, easy install (w/backup cam) works well

Great value, easy install (even with back up cam), sound is good, bluetooth works great, overall very satisfied.
the first unit I received had a problem with the back up cam input, but sonic took care of the problem quickly.

By H David on May 30, 2016 Verified purchase

Pioneer radio

This pioneer system is very well built and easy to install if you get all right add ons for stereo hand controls and etc would redo it all over again great quality