Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #23917 in Car Audio or Theater
- Color: BLACK
- Brand: Clarion
- Model: VX400
- Dimensions: 16.40" h x
9.60" w x
16.40" l,
1.00 pounds
Features
- Built-in Bluetooth hands-free calling
- Superior iPod and iPhone connectivity
- HD Radio ready with iTunes tagging
- Sirius Direct Connect ready
- Touch panel-controlled GUI and NAV
Clarion VX400 6.5-Inch In-Dash Double-DIN Touchscreen DVD/CD/MP3/USB Receiver with Bluetooth
Product Description
Clarion VX400 6.5-Inch In-Dash Double-DIN Touchscreen DVD/CD/MP3/USB Receiver with Bluetooth
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By riclach
I received this item quickly and packed very well. The unit itself is nice looking and fit in my 2006 F-150 nicely. It is important to get the wiring harness adapter and installation kit. I was able to get my steering wheel inputs to work with the PAC SWIJACK Steering Wheel Remote Interface unit sold here on Amazon. I read mixed reviews on the steering wheel interface but I got mine to work.The GUI is easy to use but it is not intuitive.The Bluetooth found and downloaded my address book from my iPhone with no trouble. The built-in microphone is not the best. I suspect that it is because you are so far away from it. Beware that only one speaker (you can chose front right or left) will produce the sound from your caller. One nice thing is that you can adjust the volume for calls; it remembers that setting and does not affect the volume from the rest of the audio sources. In other words, if I am listening to music at volume level of 10, then raise the volume to 35 during a call and return to music the volume will go back to 10 for the music. The next and any call after will remain on volume level 35.Playing Ipod tunes is awful on this unit. The library layout is not as good as the iPod/iPhone. I looked up songs by artist and found that some of the albums are missing. I can find them if I switch to locating by album but this should not happen. On several occasions while listening to music from my iPhone and then received a call, the music was still heard (although at a low level). Another bad thing is that if you have the iPod/iPhone hooked up to the unit before you power up the audio does not come through. I have to disconnect, reconnect, wait for the unit to "see" it then the audio will come through.Playing CDs and DVDs is easy and sound great.Other than playing music from my iPhone, I am pleased with this unit. I had the high end factory Audiophile in my vehicle before this unit. The factory unit was good, but I do notice a difference in sound quality with this unit.I have come back to this review after I have had the unit for awhile now. I have given it one less star. I pursched the Sat radio adapter for it and it is driving me crazy. The problem is the software in the head unit. It will not remember the last station you were on once you turn the system off. This means everytime I listen to sat radio, I have to select the channel I want. I say the problem is the head unit because I was finally able to get someone from Clarion to look into the problem. After weeks of researching the issue, they called me and told me that I need to remove the unit and send it back to Clarion for a software update. They told me they would email the RMA number and address to send it to. Problem is not only having my heaad unit gone for 6 weeks, Clarion has not sent me the RMA and location to send it to. That was 2 months ago....
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By Gustavo Cabrera
Love the new clarion vx400. Blue tooth works fantastic and integrates with iphone flawless. Ipod control and charging is okay. Used off brand cables. I would recommend clarion cable. I get a lot of messages not compatible with iphone yet it plays everthing. The upgrades on this thing is great getting back up camera and rear entertainment montitor soon. Got sirius satellite scc1. Its pretty good but it does not have the capabilit to showstation and whats playing in group listing. Told the oem bridge for volume control is not very good.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Eric
Alright, I love the features and you can't beat the price. Everyone has said that and it's true.The interface is tragic though. It's clunky, scattered, unintuitive, and all in all seems pretty poorly thought out. Poorly in the sense that any middle school kid could have come up with a better interface. Options are scattered, and you can't do anything else while streaming A2DP bluetooth music. You can't even turn the screen off like you can for every other input. You can't change the color of the button lights like you can on some basic receivers, so if you don't like a nice pure blue, don't bother. The screen is resistive, but still fairly responsive, so that's good; and the buttons are big, so that's good too. I would recommend bumping up to a higher model just to avoid the UI, or at least waiting until a later model with an interface that makes the least bit of sense.Update: I'm reducing the review to 2 stars as my bluetooth just stopped working on this unit. It says it's connected, but there's no audio. It just stopped spontaneously.
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