Lets evaluate - the Pioneer AVH-P3100DVD with Jensen VM8023HD. Sadly but the Jensen can disappoint you. Sidebar on the Jensen, the consumer interface is terrible. It's slow, buggy, and crash - prone. It is also very haphazard by way of what button to push in any given mode. It merely deprives the time and patience. Typically it's the rotary encoder quantity knob, sometimes it's up/down, generally it's another button entirely. Totally violates the principal of least surprise. Looks as if it was designed and applied by some poor intern in 2 weeks. Good characteristic set, however fully ruined by the interface.
Overall the Pioneer is great. It is orders of magnitude higher than the Jensen when it comes to interface and reliability. Sound high quality is better too. The Jensen seemed not overlook to insert some digital - sounding "junk" between MP3s, the Pioneer does not.
Menus are very intuitive and simple to navigate. It works well with MP3s on a USB stick. Navigation between folders, together with nested folders, is easy. You possibly can contact-drag to scroll shortly down a long listing or to maneuver the current playback position inside a song. You'll be able to see 4 track names per display it might be 5 or 6, which is adequate. The Jensen only confirmed 2.
Touching a music name begins it playing however does not exit the menu so you can contact another music when you change your mind. This is great when looking for one particular song you could't quite bear in mind the identify of.
Utilizing a SWI-PS steering wheel interface and the mute operate of the interface causes the Pioneer to go into "Attenuation" mode the place it lowers the volume but does not mute it completely. Could be much want it actually mute. This can be a Pioneer difficulty, not a SWI-PS one because the SWI-PS muted the Jensen correctly.
The exhausting buttons on the unit quantity +/-, track +/-, mute, source, and display off require too much pressure to press, desire a softer feel. You actually must press the button such as you mean it. Also would be good a rotary knob for the volume control.
The location of the USB and Aux ports, lower left corner, is poor as a result of a USB stick poking out of the port can simply be hit by my hand when shifting the shifter on the steering column. These can be better off on the decrease right as a substitute of lower left corner. Relying on the setup in your automotive which may not be an issue for you.
It throws up a warning display which you need to acknowledge the first time you switch to a video supply, DVD or AUX in, even if you're already parked with the parking brake on. This behaviour is really annoying. Should you're already parked it should not give you the warning.
The whole experience with Pioneer is better than the Jensen in almost every way. Nonetheless, there are some things, which are talked about above may very well be improved but nothing is ideal, and general the Pioneer is best receiver then Jensen.
Overall the Pioneer is great. It is orders of magnitude higher than the Jensen when it comes to interface and reliability. Sound high quality is better too. The Jensen seemed not overlook to insert some digital - sounding "junk" between MP3s, the Pioneer does not.
Menus are very intuitive and simple to navigate. It works well with MP3s on a USB stick. Navigation between folders, together with nested folders, is easy. You possibly can contact-drag to scroll shortly down a long listing or to maneuver the current playback position inside a song. You'll be able to see 4 track names per display it might be 5 or 6, which is adequate. The Jensen only confirmed 2.
Touching a music name begins it playing however does not exit the menu so you can contact another music when you change your mind. This is great when looking for one particular song you could't quite bear in mind the identify of.
Utilizing a SWI-PS steering wheel interface and the mute operate of the interface causes the Pioneer to go into "Attenuation" mode the place it lowers the volume but does not mute it completely. Could be much want it actually mute. This can be a Pioneer difficulty, not a SWI-PS one because the SWI-PS muted the Jensen correctly.
The exhausting buttons on the unit quantity +/-, track +/-, mute, source, and display off require too much pressure to press, desire a softer feel. You actually must press the button such as you mean it. Also would be good a rotary knob for the volume control.
The location of the USB and Aux ports, lower left corner, is poor as a result of a USB stick poking out of the port can simply be hit by my hand when shifting the shifter on the steering column. These can be better off on the decrease right as a substitute of lower left corner. Relying on the setup in your automotive which may not be an issue for you.
It throws up a warning display which you need to acknowledge the first time you switch to a video supply, DVD or AUX in, even if you're already parked with the parking brake on. This behaviour is really annoying. Should you're already parked it should not give you the warning.
The whole experience with Pioneer is better than the Jensen in almost every way. Nonetheless, there are some things, which are talked about above may very well be improved but nothing is ideal, and general the Pioneer is best receiver then Jensen.
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