Customer Ratings & Reviews

great product

i would recommend this product,easy hook up,works great,fast navigation,video quality great ,makes the factory radio sound like crap.,talking on the built in blue tooth is loud and clear

great picture

the unit works well and the picture quality is great in sun and dark.

Great Product

What a deal found here. The price for what you get is the best. I checked a lot of places for this stereo and found it cheaper here. The sound is awesome in my 2013 Ram 1500. The navigation works great. Can't wait to use it on my upcoming trip to Connecticut. Easy to install because Sonic Electronix carried all the RIGHT accessories needed for the install. The picture on DVD looks great, even in sunlight. So many pluses to list. There was only one issue (which honestly wasn't that bad). I was promised it would arrive on a certain day, but didn't. A day later was when it came. When I received it, I looked at my receipt and they took $10.00 of my purchase. That well made up for it being one day late. I will definitely recommend this company to family and friends and will buy from them in the future.

love product 100%

great product and very easy to use overall great value

I love it, for the price, it is very goood !!

I love it, for the price, it is very goood !! I recommend it !
Très bon auto-radio, je l'adore ! Pour le prix, ça vaut vraiment la peine, bonne qualité, de plus, elle a survécu à un très dure hiver Québecois (ce que mon ancienne radio chinoise n'a pas fait...)

Planet Audio PNV9680

This is a really great all in one for the money. I have had it in for a month now and used the gps more then 20 times and works great. I would highly recommend this unit.

dont buy

does not work on iPhone, does not recognize anything in usb port
poor reception

By william on July 8, 2015 Verified purchase

DVD Double din

Beautiful music starts with a good stereo. This one is a good start. Very good sound and easy setup make this one a very good buy. The only drawback is the documentation is lacking in better description of the settings and the plugs for the sd cards are weak

A lot of Features in a Cheap Package

I installed this in my fiance's 2010 Scion xD. It fit well with the included harness and dash kit. It has some minor protrusion but not noticeable to the average person. It adds a lot of spice to the interior of her car considering the stock Pioneer was pretty lacking.

The unit itself gets the job done and works well. Everything is basically what you would expect from a cheaper head unit.

You may not like it if the following is an issue for you:

It is missing the illumination light wire for syncing brightness with the car's headlights. The menus feel a little cheap but are still functional. The response time for inputs is decent but not the fastest. It lacks some easy accessible audio settings for GPS/BT. Setting up steering wheel controls took a lot of troubleshooting (had to set the HU to high/low voltage to receive the inputs). The iPod option doesn't allow you to select a specific song you want to hear. I believe the SD card music option just lists all songs as 1 root directory. The minimum volume setting is too loud, and when you raise the volume incrementally it progresses too fast (so Vol. 1 to vol. 6 is a big difference). Some of the timezone and daylight savings options are screwy (you have to set the wrong timezone I think for accurate time). The touchscreen is not capacitive like an iphone/android but resistive like a Garmin GPS.

You may want this head unit if you like the following:

GPS loads up in a reasonable amount of time and navigates accurately (assuming its not modern construction). The sound it delivers seems pretty good. The iPod option allows you to play songs in order or random. BT works for music and phone calls. You can set any picture to wallpaper via SD card (but haven't tested this yet). You can watch DVDs while driving (not recommended for driver). It has a lot of options even though they aren't done as well as better name brand head units.

I hope this helps! I would recommend this HU if you need to get all the features on a budget. If you can sacrifice some features like GPS and/or BT then you can get a better name brand with a higher quality experience.

Lots of Hits... But Some Misses Too

INSTALLATION: Metra Kit for 2006 Pilot was off. Needed to Dremel (enlarge) side holes in kit to line up with tapped holes in unit. Top mounting tabs to dash interior needed to be shimmed out by ~3/16" (used 3 stacked washers under tab holes) to push unit down and correctly align with dash front opening. Ends up slightly tilted so top of unit protrudes a little, but bottom is still flush with opening. Angle actually makes display more vertical and easier to view while it still has that "built-in" look.

INTERFACE: Physical buttons on front face a big plus... easier access to radio/nav/vol/tuning, etc. Graphics a bit cluttered and out-of-date looking, but usable. Fairly quick boot-up from cold starts (audio/visual and nav). Remembers last selected input on start-up (except nav which must be manually restarted). Various setting and menus can be hard to find, access or hidden (read the manual carefully and be prepared to play around with it a lot.)

RADIO: Works and sounds fine. Better than stock, but have only used with stock speakers so far. Basic RDS displays a small line of text in upper right corner with current station/song. Some people complaining of eradicate station selection may have inadvertently enabled AF/TA/PTY (deselect to avoid in bottom menu using swipe to left to open hidden settings on right side).

BLUETOOTH: Works well, but with some caveats. Must use with external microphone plugged into rear port. Confusing because the manufacturer's prerelease photos have shown the word "mic" printed by a hole in upper left front panel implying an internal microphone. The actual product does not have that (though hole for mic is still there.) Manufacturer support emailed back "they work together, but the external mic must be plugged in." Haven't verified that, but voice pickup is fine with external mic. Pairs with iPhone 5 (running iOS6), but does not reconnect after powering off/on. Must go into iPhone and "forget" connection and re-pair it with unit next time it's used. Old Android phone (running Gingerbread) connects without pairing and seems to work better in this regard.

SD/USB: Works fine sound wise. Usual limitation of no playlist/album/artist support, only one long song list by folder in the order it was physically written to media by computer. Seems to be a universal characteristic of car head units. Shuffle play is available. Haven't yet explored the limits on the number of song/folder/subfolders software will recognize. Works with micro SD card slot in front and mini-USB front plug (with supplied adapter cable)/full size rear connector.

IPOD: Works thru supplied cable that connects to proprietary rear port. Cable uses the old style 30-pin apple connector (need adapter to use with lightning.) Need to run cable to somewhere accessible like your glove box or front console.

CD/DVD: Haven't explored this much, but it's played anything I've thrown at it. DVD video looks good... but one need to go into setting menu (available only during playback by tapping screen) to select the proper aspect ratio like 16:9. A parking brake override is available in the main menu under Video settings for use with or without the parking brake wire connected.

NAV: That's a mixed bag. Runs PolNav6 software with NAVTEQ maps. Both reasonably up-to-date (2012.Q1 maps). Boot up and satellite lock is fast, navigation routes OK, and the interface is not too confusing. But TTS street name pronunciations are terrible, almost to the point of being useless. If you can live without TTS, its acceptable. Can substitute and run any WINCE6 compatible navigation software you care to install via SD card.

eh...

Radio is not user friendly takes a couple min to read an sd card every time you want to play from it. Screen washes out terribly in even moderate sun. The Bluetooth is very good but you will have to get some good auto trim tape to mount the mic. Even after a good cleaning with alcohol the supplied tape wouldn't stick. The gps is terrible. If you use a space rather than a - it tries to divide by 0 or something. If you try to search by name and don't add a space T the end of the name it won't find it. If a road has a hyphenated name it won't fine I'd.

Nice Navigation

It fits nicely on my dodge caravan 2013 with metra dash kit. The sound quality is as normal as other radios. The clock time does not support daylight saving time. So, you have to select eastern time zone while in Central time zone to increase an hour. The GPS time zone is fine for DST. The GPS works very perfectly. The bluetooth is also work nicely. The back up camera also woks fine. I can turnof the volume using volume settings while using the back up. My audio shop guy tested his iphone and it works fine too. I don't have iPad at this time, so not worry now. There are very few selections for wall paper, but it is not a big deal. Overal, I give it to five star for the price and functionality.

Nice Unit

Best GPS I've ever used although some features are a bit hard to find in the menu. The sound is much better than the stock radio it replaced. The back-up camera is a welcome addition to my truck. All in all, I'd recommend this unit.

Awesome full featured car audio/video/nav unit for way less than the big name brands

I love this stereo unit. So many features and crazy easy to use. I hooked it up and installed it and havent even cracked the users manual yet so im sure it does way more than ive experienced so far. I almost forked over the big bucks for a big name brand unit but im glad i didnt. I installed it in an 03 dodge ram pickup with existing infinity sound system so I had to buy a couple axxess adapters for the existing amp and steering wheel controls. If your doing something similar, spend the extra dough for the correct adapters and peripheral controls. You wont regret buying this head unit. Do not buy a cheaper chinese no name unit off ebay; been there, done that, they are garbage. You cannot get a better unit for the price of the planet audio. Thanks for a great product.

Great gift

My adult son specifically ask for this for Christmas. When he opened it he was happy that he got exactly e=what he wanted. He was pleased with all the functions on the product.

Good value

Great value for the price. Navigation works really well... Bluetooth is great, picture quality on DVD is good, only downfall I see is the radio tuner doesn't seem as strong as my stock radio. But I still really like the radio in every other aspect

By Lee on December 16, 2016 Verified purchase

nice sound

This unit sounds better than the original equipment of my 2008 dodge Ram. The CD player works well. The gps works slow but picks up a signal well once it is finally on and running. The Bluetooth is not voice activated but after installing it the description doesn't say it is - too bad for me. I should have paid better attention before ordering it as well as if I got a larger screen unit it would fit my truck better. Overall I am satisfied with my purchase of this unit but disappointed in my choice as I overlooked some things I wanted in a car stereo.

Better than expected

Good product with nice features for the money. Installed it myself with little to no issues. GPS works nicely. The description says it wont play music while GPS is on but it does.BIG deal to me.I almost didn't order it cuz of that. I didn't install a backup camera or swc so i can't speak for that. I paired it with a set of infinity pr8602cf's and it sounds awesome. The bluetooth paired up easily to my iphone and my kyocera flip phone(work phone). I have alot of cab noise in my f150 super crew so i can't say the sound is crystal clear but may be better in a quieter vehicle. Dvd player works nice. Good picture. Radio reception didn't change from factory radio
Cd's sound good as well as playing music on a memory stick.
I've had it for a month and found no issues yet.
For $200 i am very satisfied.

Buy if you don't needt to use gps

The GPS is a JOKE, very outdated, turns 180 degrees at will causing you to reset your trip as the arrow starts pointing downward (reversing the map) I located my antenna for the GPS right in the center of my dash next to the windshield so that should not be the problem at all. I believe it is the GPS software its self but I will go back to using my trusty portable Garmin unit, so don't buy if you are buying for the GPS ! Every other thing about this unit works great and looks great. PS, even if your GPS would work fine for you, keep in mind that it will cost you about $70 to update the software.

By Gayle on February 19, 2017 Verified purchase

Awesome unit!

Awesome product for it's value, the screen is clear. Goes and sounds great with the speakers in my vehicle!

Planet audio pnv9680

This double din has everything you will ever need and for the money it is a great buy. Everything works great on it.

By dondi on October 16, 2016 Verified purchase