itr206

I have an Alpine single DIN 9883 in now from when I bought the car. Its a decent unit but Im thinking of upgrading to something a little newer and straight forward IPOD controls. Currently my nano will play , but no charge and I dont want to spend money to bandaid with plugins on an older unit. . .

Now I am looking at the Pioneer P3300BT and P4300 units due to fairly low price/function aspect.
I like the 3300BT due to the BT (who knows if I will ever use it, but seems nice to have if it works well). Other than that the USB up front I think will drive me batty.

4300 is nice because the extra size and jacks on back, but no BT and the slide down screen is just another thing to break IMO.

Anyone with input on either that they may own or were in the same boat?
If I buy from Flebay, I can litterally get them within $50 of eachother so Im tossed.

itr206

Wow, no one has an opinion? Or is CL just a really slow forum?

Shibumi1

the 3300bt only has phone call bt not streaming audio.. look into the JVC KW-AVX740

http://cgi.ebay.com/JVC-KW-AVX740-Bl...item45fb0052bc

Shibumi1

better price,bigger screen more options ...win win win situation..

itr206

I never thought to look at JVC as I thought they were kind of hokey

Shibumi1

the new jvc's are a thing of beauty...

itr206

interesting. . . Ill take a gander at some specs and reviews on this thing for giggles and see whats up.
Thanks for the advise

Robert_J

My 3300BT came in yesterday and will be installed in my ES-350. I chose Pioneer due to my long history using them. I've had Pioneers in my car since 1988 with the exception of a Pontiac that needed shallow mount Sony head unit. I also use Pioneer home receivers. The one I'm listening to right now is 19 years old.

Shibumi1

pioneer makes an excellent product..(if u were getting nav then id say pioneer hands down) but they chose to leave out a lot of options to make it affordable

but at this price point the jvc is just a better sense.. more options larger screen same money..