For people looking to upgrade their head unit

[DWiggles]

I gotta admit I hate apple shit except in this case where the alternative is several hundreds/thousands of $$ difference. The flexibility of this thing is really hard to beat.

It's not like google has been making a good case for themselves either... so much so I've switched my personal PC and phone app web browser to Firefox and removed chrome all together... we still use chrome at work sadly... but OS to OS, I like being able to at least have the illusion of opting out of the spyware/data gather/app permissions/mic & camera access/ etc, etc...

I can watch porn while I'm driving down the highway

SOLD!!! :cheesy:

Android units will do that too... errr... so I'm told? :idontknow:

 

[JMFK]

Im looking for info still, not wanting to buy twice, you know.

Im leaning towards an android unit I think. mainly so I can allow internet though BT/activate hotspot on my phone, and we can (FROM THE PASSENGER SEAT) youtube music or whatever basically. I dont know, Im scared to buy into the marketing, but as great as the insane audio 2001 appears to be, there is so little feedback... IF it was really THAT great, wouldnt everyone be running one?? oh, and I'm not a big fan of the logo on the front of the unit... just looks like a theft target to me...

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At the end of the day, I want it to work well, and for a long while. and of course, sound decent with the revamped factory alpine system (2015-2018 JK). It would also be cool to be able to run something like the inclinometer app when wheeling. Off camber stuff really puckers me up. But I just haven't found enough to buy in yet. that or I know to little about audio and head units in general to really understand the hardware I'm looking at. I get the computer tech stuff. (CPU vs RAM vs BUSS vs HD) but I'm an infant in the audio world. Hell, I dont even HAVE a sound card in my new-ish PC. it just goes though the MOBO and HDMI out to the Bose system. Sounds fine to me. :idontknow:

BACK in the day, I had a flip out screen DVD player in my DSM, used the video-in for my laptop so I could monitor DSMLink (OLD-school tuning software) I think I actually used the audio maybe a handfull of time. It was always music off, windows down, boost on... awe, the good-ol days...

But older, wiser, and married... we now "NEED" decent audio on road trips...

and that is about the extent of my "aftermarket head unit experience"

I went with the insane audio unit and am like 90% satisfied. I’m an Apple guy so I was leaning toward something with Apple play but decided against it. Like you said I like being able to download any app I could have on my phone and run it from the head unit. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area so traffic sucks. The biggest (may not seem important to some though) plus side is being able to run google maps from the head unit for directions. I hated using the 430n for nav because it didn’t have real time traffic and I hated having to have a mount for my phone cluttering the dash.

I haven’t used it yet much but the nav app that comes preloaded by insane audio seems legit. I like that you can upload your own kmz (gps file) just like in a hand held gps if you have it for a given trail.

In general my only complaints are that the apps insane audio provide for playing music from an iPod or SD card are junk but you can download one of the hundreds of players available from the google play store and use it instead. I went with media monkey and it works great. Also the Bluetooth connection is way better than the 430n but not 100% reliable. Generally there is less lag than the 430n but I still get disconnected every once and a while during a call. It immediately gets reconnected but in all only happens on 1 out of 10 calls. I’ve talked to a insane audio guy and he said that the head unit doesn’t play nice with Apple products all the time so that may be the issue and people with android phones might have better luck. Lastly the microphone that insane audio provides for Bluetooth calls is terrible and the built in mic on the head unit isn’t much better. Both let a lot of road noise through making it hard for the persons on the line to hear you. Luckily the external mic connects through a 3.5mm headphone jack so I’m going to try and splice in the stock uconnect mic and see if it helps. Otherwise I might try getting a higher quality mic off of Amazon.


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