Product Description
View larger
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2118 in Car Audio or Theater
- Brand: BOSS
- Model: BV7320
- Released on: 2010-03-01
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.25" h x 2.20" w x 7.00" l, 5.25 pounds
- Display size: 3.2
Features
- AM/FM radio, DVD, SVCD, VCD, CD, CD-R/RW, WMA/MP4/MP3 receiver
- 4 x 80 Watts maximum power with front/rear, subwoofer preamp outputs
- 3.2-inch TFT LCD display with 1440 x 234 pixel resolution
- Includes front panel auxiliary input, USB port, SD card slot, wireless remote
- One-year limited warranty
Most helpful customer reviews
46 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
Pretty good little unit
By D. Benedict
OK, I have been living with this thing for a couple months and I am ready to give it the full review top to
bottom! I'll cover the packaging, installation, initial impressions, what works well, what doesn't,
predicted reliability and any tips or tricks that I have learned.
Let's start with the packaging, nothing fancy and if I recall it comes with the metal sleeve, a
couple of 'keys' to remove the radio from the sleeve, a short metal strap to mount it and two wiring
harnesses that plug into the back of the radio. One harness is for power, ground, remote turn on, etc. and
the other is the speaker outputs. Directly connected to the back of the radio (no harness) are all the
inputs and outputs. It also has a manual, the exact same one you can get from the bossaudio web site. Upon
unboxing I looked over the radio and you can tell the Quality Control is not really A+. It works fine and was
not broken in any way but the back side of the screen had a smudge on it and the corner of the front bezel
still had plastic 'flashing' sticking out a little bit. Not a highly polished product that is for sure but I
am not going to be super picky at this price.
Next, installation was fairly easy with this unit. You can wire both wiring harnesses before you put
the radio in since they are modular, leave enough slack to plug them into the radio, plug in the RCAs then
you slide the radio into the sleeve in whatever opening you put it in. Perhaps this is me but there are two
stages of insertion of the radio into the sleeve. The first stage 'clicks' once you get it in a certain
amount. If you push it in really snug it will click into the two small holes right near the front of the
radio on the sides. I was not able to get it to click into the tighter set of holes and also get the
faceplate and trim frame onto the radio. I had to slide it in the first set of holes which leaves about a 1
to 2mm gap between the radio and the sleeve, which looks a little cheesy from the side if you look closely.
The silver metal sleeve really is noticable in that little gap. I painted my metal sleeve black since it
bothered me.
My impressions and observations about this unit have come over the last couple months. The features
that I have used have been AM and FM radio, front USB, SD Card, picture viewing, mp4 playback, DVD playback,
front RCA out, internal amp, and subwoofer out. I'll go over each one by one.
AM Radio: reception is pretty good and sound quality is nice. One problem that I have had is that
when I go over bumps sometimes the AM (FM also but not as bad) radio will sound like the reception is
dropping. I don't know if the electronics for the radio are in the detachable panel but if I shift the front
panel around and tap it lightly it tends to go away. It seems the worst on cold mornings. Not a big deal
now that I know what it is but if you don't know it almost sounds like you wired something incorrectly. I
wonder if the front panel is just a little flimsy which causes this problem. I would suggest not removing
the detachable front panel. I used to do it a lot when I first got it (paranoid I guess!) and I wonder if
that caused stress on the front panel.
FM Radio: again, reception is pretty good and the number of presets is nice (18). THe LOC function,
like just about every other radio I have ever had, doesn't seem to do a darn thing. What's nice about the
radio is that if you press "clock" you can read the time quite clearly. The same cannot be said in the other
modes.
Front USB: pretty much functions like the SD card. Plug it in and it will read your files and start
playing. If you leave it in the next time you turn it on it will start at the same place you left off which
is nice. SD card does the same thing.
Picture viewing: Not much to see here. Maybe a nice feature if you want to show someone something or
look at a slideshow. Just jpg I think is compatible. Big (3GB or more) pictures do take a while to render.
It would be nice if you could make a picture your wallpaper but I do not think you can.
MP4 playback. OK, I wish more info were published about this but I can say that you can't go wrong
if your video file is encoded with Xvid for video and mp3 as audio. The manual doesn't say what kind of .mp4
files work but I suspect only divx/xvid. I can say that I have not had a single .mp4/x264 video play. I
don't think it has the horsepower anyway. The framerate can be pretty much anything 25/30 fps but it did
start to choke on 50/60 fps video. Not sure the max bitrate but I used up to 2400kbps and it played fine.
Just make sure your largest dimension is at least 640 on the width or 480 on the height. You definitely
cannot throw an HD file at it. I hope this helps someone. I wish I had known.
DVD playback. In a word, nice. I did not try PAL DVD but they probably play fine as well which is
nice. The audio along with it is nice. I almost like watching DVDs in the car better because I have a
better dynamic range and frequency response in my car than in my house. Some 4 x 3 stuff is stretched to 16 x
9 which might bother some but I guess it's OK. YOu cannot resize the aspect ratio.
RCA out: Levels seem to be fine. The pre-amp outs didn't have quite enough juice and I had a little
bit of hiss at low volume when I cranked up the sensitivity on my equalizer. I backed that off and set the
gain on my amp instead so it seems to be pretty good now. The volume is certainly electronically controlled
and not analog as the volume goes up in 'steps' when starting at low volume. This is a little annoying and I
would prefer infinite gain but not a big deal breaker.
Internal amp: I ran this before I got my external amp hooked up and I'll be darned if it isn't half
bad. If you are on a budget (like me!) this really is not a bad amp. Not nearly as good as a component amp
but it sure isn't bad. If you are running the internal amp I highly recommend very good power cabling (at
least 8 AWG if not 4) and good speaker wire (minimum 14 AWG). I ran the factory wiring and the display would
dim pretty bad when I turned it up loud. I would bet that would go away with good cabling.
Subwoofer out: Used this today for the first time. It's a mono out. I am not sure what the db/octave
is and the crossover frequency and I do not remember seeing it in the manual but if I had to guess I would
say 80Hz at maybe 18db / octave. That is a wild guess though. Seems to work fine. After testing many features
along with my observations about the radio dropping out over bumps I don't really predict this radio will last forever
but for now it works fine and it should keep on chugging for a few years.
Finally here are all the little niggles and observations I have about the radio. Yes the front panel
does feel a little sketchy and it is a little tough to pop in and out without feeling like you might break
it. It has been fine though. The volume knob is just doggone slippery and sometimes hard to turn up and
down with confidence. It is slightly annoying to have to always toggle through the "AV" (rear view camera) mode every time I
switch from radio to USB or SD Card, etc. I don't have anything hooked to the video in. The options/setup menu is pretty
nice and I accidentally set something that I shouldn't and the audio was really choppy. I changed some sort of setting for
dynamic range it went back to normal. Fit and finish are kinda bad. The clock is hard to read on the SD Card/USB screen
since it is bright green on top of fairly bright gray with lots of letters. Some people complain about the interface and
indeed it is bare bones and not very flashy but it gets the job done just fine and I am sure its simplicity (linux perhaps?)
probaby allows them to offer such a versatile product at such a great price. Also, some have complained about how bright
the display is. I don't really have a problem with it personally. I think I need to mention the fan in the back. It does not run when using the radio but if you use the memory card / DVD / USB it will spin up. I am guessing it is a CPU fan. Mine spins up pretty loud at first, especially when it is cold. If you are listening to music at a relatively low level the fan sound is kinda loud.
If you look back 10 or 20 years on what radios used to do this thing does a ton and does them well.
It's fairly unobtrusive / not a real looker (i.e- might not be that interesting to potential thieves)
does a ton of stuff and rocks the house. I can't give it 5 stars because it isn't perfect but for the price
I have to give it 5 stars. Bluetooth would have been nice but oh well...
39 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome!!
By Anthony S. Cruz
I purchased this radio for my 1991 Ford Explorer. I will admit a was a little iffy about this radio but so far it has worked perfectly. The radio works fine its very easy to install and the cd/dvd player works great. To make the dvd player work you have to plug the parking brake green wire to the parking break system but if your like myself you have no idea what that is. I just went online and searched for a bypass for boss radio parking brake wire and it simply told me the answer, went outside and tried it worked great. :) So thankful for technology and blogs! Other then that one thing that bugged me is the when you turn up the radio there is a clicking noise which is quite loud. If you like myself I hate the clicking noise, but you get used to it. The screen for movies is very good quality! When you plug in the ipod through USB it syncs with the deck but the letters are very small, its a little difficult to read but if your like myself once again I just go through the folders not knowing whats going to play and just listen to what song comes on. Its kinda fun :) Overall radio works perfectly have had no problems and would definitely suggest this to anyone, you definitely get more for your money!
37 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent For The Price! Very happy!
By TennaWhat
Installed this the other day in my pontoon boat.
The sound is much better than expected - very happy.
The screen is very clear and more than acceptable.
This stereo also had two additional Video-Outputs. I connected one to a dash mounted 7" Legacy Monitor and it looks great. Note - the Video-Outputs DO NOT show output when in "Radio Mode". But do show output when a CD/MP3/DVD Movie are inserted.
Tested Terminator 2 in DVD Mode - Looked and sounded great!
Camera Input which works as expected.
Tested a purchased DVD movie, three different Home-Made DVD Movies, DVD with MP3's, CD & CD with MP3's, ALL worked with NO Problem!
For the "Parking Break Safety Feature", just Ground the Green wire to any ground to bypass.
Note - The reason for a "4-Star" rating and not 5 - The Product Description makes it sound like a "Touch-Screen", it is NOT a Touchscreen, it is Touch "Controls" only. This is mostly my mistake, should have read the description closer and then contacted the seller, but would be nice if said something like "Touch-Controls Only, not a Touch-Screen".
I would buy this item again for sure!
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar