Great, but flawed

I purchased this headunit mainly for the USB capabilities, to then find that they are vastly flawed.

For example, you take your USB stick, and upload some albums onto it. One folder for begins with the letter"S" and the other begins with the letter"V". If, two days later you want to upload an album beginning with"S" you'll be forgiven for thinking it is simple. For when you transfer the"S" folder over, this gets placed at the end of the list as the headunit sorts the folder list via time and date as opposed to character!

This means if wish to keep your folder-hierarchy in alphabetical order therefore making it easy to search your MP3s you have to transfer all the files over to your computer that are on the USB stick. Then add the one folder to this list, and re-transfer everything over...a very time consuming task if you are using an 8GB USB flash drive!

You can probably get around it by creating folders labelled A-Z, and then only re-transferring the artists that you are effecting into these folders, but you shouldn't have to!

It is such a shame, as it is a very beautiful unit, CD player works perfectly, radio is crystal clear, the multi-function wheel makes it easy to change radio station/tracks while you keep your eyes on the road, the USB load up time is great, and would in all respects be worth 4.5/5 or 5/5, but for the very obvious design flaw that they've let creep in I've had to knock off 2 stars.

Sony MEX BT5000 - Quality, Quality, Quality

As I said in the title, what a quality piece of equipment, looked at some pioneer bluetooth stereos, believe me they are not a patch on this item.

All the buttons feel great, the joystick feels solid. The sound quality is fantastic. The bluetooth phone quality is excellent (I use a Nokia 8800).

I bought this item as a result of the other review (which is much more detailed than mine) and he was spot on in all his comments.

My only negative would be the lack of a motorised face, but hey for the money who am I kidding.

If your thinking of getting one of these, don't hesitate, you'll not be disappointed.

SONY HEAD UNIT

this is a bargain price... i bought my one in halfords and it was £180.00, so i was gutted to see it here £70 cheaper...

the head unit its self is nice, well made, nice feel to it, and easy to use..... however there does not seem to be seperate bass & trebble controls and instead you can select frequencies that you want the speakers to respond to, which is ok i guess.......
also it relied on you slecting"modes" of music to listen to , like"pop, rock, vocal" etc, where as i'd prefer to have a straightforward plus or minus for the trebble & bass..... however its ok.

you can also display various"graphics" on the screen while the music is playing.... this is very"chavvy" in my opinion so just set it to a frequency pattern rather than the other options...

also the aux input... they should supply the lead with the head unit for this, i think it would also be better having a fixed aux lead from the back of the head unit. as it is... everytime you take the face off, you have to unplug it....

id prob spend the £180.00 on a better model buying online... but £112 for this is good.

A MUST FOR DAB LOVERS!

I Recently bought this head unit, love it! The DAB quality is very good, although you need an external aerial (unsure whether included from amazon), cd player superb sound in my standard vauxhall speakers.

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