In-Dash Receivers. Evaluations about Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD

In case you are wondering about shopping for this specific in dash receiver, listed below are few critiques about video, sound and radio choices of this receiver.

Video High quality

Album covers from ipods are okay. A bit fuzzy, but okay.
DVDs look superior on this unit. Every bit of what you'd want. There are plenty of management options. Haven't any complaints on this one.
Colour on the display is bright and straightforward to read and choosing things on the screen can also be easy. It is a delicate touch, so I never need to press hard. Most of the textual content is very large, so it is easy to learn and select on the screen in a moving car. Has a clear look, will probably be impressive to passengers, but when off, nothing that makes it look fancy. And the unit appears to be like simply nearly as good in real life as within the pictures.

Sound Options

EQ is parametric, solely three bands, but it surely means that you can choose what frequency and what number of frequencies on both side of that one are affected. Offers sufficient flexibility should you could also be used to a 7 or 10 band EQ.
Also, for exterior gamers, the function that compensates for MP3 compressed audio is great. Really helps improve the sound from ipods.
The Loudness feature has three depth ranges--fairly helpful since on some units the difference between it being on and off may be crazy.
The sub woofer settings help you select the sub frequency you want to accent or reduce--assuming you could have one with an exterior amplifier connected.

Radio

HD radio is great, but when selecting presets, it would not insert the name of the station like it does with normal FM. All you see is P1, P2, etc. And I've but to find a method to manually add it in. I do not count on to. When you use the HD in sprint receiver, the conventional radio performance within the unit is disabled. You may nonetheless get the analog - alerts, it just works just a little differently. It seems like they forgot to dot a couple of i's. But it surely switches backwards and forwards between the analog signal and digital sign fairly well.

The automatic station presets (BSM) only work in every preset group. Each group solely has 6 options. So, you possibly can't have it discover the highest 18 strongest signals. For example, in case you use BSM setup for FM set 1, and then do the same for FM set 2, they have virtually the identical stations in them.

AM stations don't come in well. After they are available in, they sound great. It basically acts like a digital signal, so it either comes in and out shortly so you possibly can't catch the words, does not are available in at all, or it's on perfectly. When completely, it sounds much better than a normal stereo. Guess is that there's a processor in the unit that tries to clean up the signal. However consequently, weaker indicators are merely cut off. You possibly can't flip this feature off. AM HD definitely sounds higher, but it requires a stronger signal than the analog AM.