Double Head Unit with Bluetooth Music

Relentless81

Relentless81

Relentless81

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Hello,

Has anyone got any experience of a double din head unit that can wirelessly stream music from a phone?

I understand some head units have Bluetooth but not all will stream music, how do I ensure I purchase something that I will do what I want?

Also, how do you browse and play the phone content, do you need to do it on the phone itself or will it be controlled on the head unit?

I'm after the cheapest after market unit capable of this, not fussed on other features I'm not even really bothered about voice calls so if there's an alternative solution I'm all ears

Thanks
 
You need it to support Blutooth A2DP, i would have thought all modern headunits will do this. However earlier ones were really terrible quality, i have an old pioneer single din i inherited in a car i bought and it does stream via bluetooth but it's like its at 96kbps.
 
That's the thing when you look at the description for a head unit it doesn't state if its supports A2DP and at what rates if any are applicable so it seems your kind of just left to guess, considering this is the only feature I want out of a replacement head unit I want to make sure I get the right thing
 
my headunit does this.

Kenwood DNX4230BT

You use the device(iphone, ipad,tablet, laptop etc) to put the music on, the unit itself just plays the music.

However you can skip forward and back through tracks in a playlist/albumv via the unit/steering controls.
 
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I got the Pioneer one from the links pepp77 posted.

The Bluetooth works really well with my iPhone 4S and as a bonus (wasn't advertised), pushing in the volume control knob for a couple seconds activates a Siri prompt. You can then just tell it who you want to call or what music to play, with the phone still in your pocket.

The USB port on the front also puts out enough juice (but only enough) to keep it charged while using TomTom for sat nav.

The Bluetooth module is Parrot branded I believe which is quite well regarded.
 
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Haha possibly both actually. I gave my mx5 to my parents so don't know if they want to keep it or just have the standard one.
 
I bought it from halfords in the sale about 5 6 weeks ago. Fitted it no problem myself just pulled out some bits of the centre console. You can set it to orange which matches the interior dash lighting. Might need an ebay fascia because of gap at the sides.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_927793_langId_-1_categoryId_165655

Yes fitted to my celica:) worls great I have a sandisk microsd card with about 10gb of music amd it all goes through swwet. Ive had piobeer and kenwood previously in my last 2 cars. Pioneer is best but the low end pioneer double din screen is hardly viewable compared to the Sony. I tested them side by side in store. My last pioneer was great as it had an oled screen. Guy I sold the car to removed it from the corolla ts because he couldn't work out how to play cds. . Foool

edit like so. It fl8cks between a lighter yellow orange and this deeper redder orange colour. Side gaps.

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