First of all, EXCELLENT SERVICE. Ordered Wednesday morning. Received Thursday afternoon! Thank you so much VM INNOVATIONS and WALMART.
I am so glad I decided to go with this BOSS BV9346B Head Unit (HU). Comes with 3 YEAR WARRANTY which was the reason I finally decided to buy BOSS.
I had a Mitubishi HU in car with touch screen. I never really cared much for the sound. Only 3 band EQ.
I bought two DUAL HUs. Returned both. They offered decent sound. Seemed slightly distorted. Lighter weight than the factory HU. And the touch screen would flicker. Controls /konbs felt a little cheap or flimsy.
What a difference with this BOSS HU. Feels solid. Heavier. Knob and controls feel solid, similar to factory radio quality. Most importantly, everything works great! No flickering screen. No electrical noises or distortions. CD/DVD player very quiet. Much impressed!
Many input options. SD CARD, 2 USB, AUX, RCA LINE-IN, BT STREAMING.
RADIO TUNER sounds fine. Features RDS. Will display station name/artist/song title when available from radio station.
CD will read text. Display artist/title etc.
DVD plays well. Better than expected. This touch screen is very clear. Like HD quality. And a BONUS. When playing a DVD, I pressed the AUDIO BUTTON on remote and the display indicated DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1.
BLUETOOTH STREAMING works very well. Phone automatically connects when I enter the car. Sound quality is excellent. Depending on the source of my stream, the fidelity can approach CD quality.
I have not yet tried other inputs. But I expect similar satisfactory results.
Another BONUS. In settings, I can adjust the INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES of each source of music. So, since CDs tend to play lower than the radio, I can either reduce radio volume, raise CD volume or both. Individual source volume adjustments are not drastic. But I can definitely hear a difference. For example, my CDs do play slightly louder than they played in other head units, including the factory HU, which played some of my CDs very low. What a useful feature.
Sound quality is excellent. Please do not believe the 80 watts x 4. That is ridiculous. "Maximum" ratings are worthless. However, this BOSS HU should deliver around 15 watts RMS per channel of low distortion audio. It sounds very good. Plenty of tone adjustments. LOUDNESS ON/OFF boosts bass and some mid/treble frequencies to smooth out the audio at low to medium volume levels. An 8 BAND EQ with following frequency adjustments of 60Hz. 150Hz 400Hz 1Khz 3Khz 7Khz 15Khz 20Khz at /~ 8dB. Very similar to the EQ on my home Yamaha surround sound receiver. This EQ works well. I can hear subtle changes in tone with only small adjustments of a few dB. This is one reason I chose BOSS over PIONEER. PIONEER is great, but, I really dislike the 13 BAND EQ on PIONEER HUs. They typically range from 60Hz to only 13Khz. Too compressed. BOSS sound is very smooth and full. Detailed treble.