It appears to be a discontinued item which had previously retailed for $549
https://www.lifestylestore.com.au/sony-xavv630bt-bluetooth-d…
220W In-Car Mechless 2-DIN Multimedia Receiver with Bluetooth
Channels - 4.0
Watts (Total) - 220
Watts (per Channel) - 55
Touchscreen - True
FM Tuner - True
Aux-in - True
Front USB Input - True
USB Music Playback - True
Bluetooth - Yes
iPod Control - True
Camera Input - Rear
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) - True
MP3 - True
WAV - True
But it's got Pandora…
Which is useless now
Can you install a VPN on these devices?
Can confirm it has reversing camera input. Installed one in daughter's i20 a couple of weeks ago.
Says it has reverse camera input in the specifications
There are a bunch of single DIN Sony units on sale too
Sony DSXA200UI 220W In-Car Mechless Media Receiver - $54.60
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/gps-car-audio/sony/sony-dsxa200ui-…
Sony CDXG1170U 220W In-Car CD/MP3 Media Receiver - $63.60
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/gps-car-audio/sony/sony-cdxg1170u-…
Sony DSXA400BT 220W In-Car Mechless Media Receiver with Bluetooth - $69.30
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/gps-car-audio/sony/sony-dsxa400bt-…
One of these to go along with the Pioneer speaker deal from the other day and I have a new car set up for under $100! Can't go wrong
Does it compatible with VW system?
Don't you mean "Isn't it compatiblistic with VW system?"
To use steering wheel controls you will need to spend about $100 on steering wheel control adapters. Some after market radios can interpret the steering wheel controls without an adapter but these are currently rare. I think I read that the newer XAV-AX100 and 200 can do this, but I'm not at all sure on that. Generally only the Chinese head units/stereos do this, and only if you buy them for the right make of car to slot in with no adapters.
To wire in the audio and power for an after market stereo, you can cut the existing wires (near free) or get din adapters that plug in without cutting wires and are generally much easier but will cost somewhere around $40-50.
Cutting the existing wires can be messy and you need to understand things like speaker phasing (i.e. getting the positive and negatives correct) otherwise it can end up sounding terrible as the bass from opposite speakers will cancel out and make it sound muddy. There are phone apps that will test phasing by playing a sound through the stereo and holding the phone close to each speaker in turn.
Din adapters usually need a pair. One from the plug that was in the back of the stock radio (carries audio, power, aerial controls, remote power for accessories) to a din plug (intermediate standard plug) then another from din to your after market stereo's wiring/plug. You may also need an aerial wiring adapter in rare cases where the car aerial wiring is different to the after market standard.
One hassle if you're doing both the steering wheel control adapter and the din adapters is that you will probably need to cut the din adapters to wire in the steering wheel control adapter to get power and control wires for the steering wheel control adapter. Many of the din adapters also don't have the wires for phone controls on the steering wheel, so for mine I had to get an extra car to din adapter and butcher it to get some extra pins to insert in the first car to din adapter to tap into the phone control wiring (the adapters came with these 3 pins missing), but your mileage may vary. I could have cut the original wires for just those three connectors but I wanted to be able to put it back to stock without any changes.
If you want a reversing camera that's another complication on top of all the above. And also if you want to wire in rear video outputs for the kids, that's another level.
If any of that didn't make any sense to you, you might be best to pay an installer.
Was always wondering if that is a big deal to change tracks or volume using your left hand using head unit itself? :)
Even on the manual gear car there are plenty of opportunities to skip the song or make it louder just by a flick of your hand.
Im lost. How much does install usually cost? (so I don't get ripped)
Couldn't tell you what it costs at the shop because I did it myself, but I learned a lot in the process and was surprised at the cost of the steering wheel control adapters.
The main issue is that there are several standards in terms of the steering wheel controls. Some output an analogue signal based on changes in voltage or resistance, and some output a digital signal, but I believe there are several digital standards. After market units often have a digital only input that uses a Headphone type plug, but the adapter has to translate the analogue signal to digital or one digital standard to another to suit the head unit.
The Chinese units come for several popular car makes and have wiring specific to Toyota, Mazda, etc, and they understand your steering wheel controls out of the box, but you can't install them in another brand of car without cutting wires.
+1 vote. But it sounds too complex for me.
Sorry, where I talked about DIN adapters above, I should have said ISO adapters.
Also, see the comment below from toomuchdogfur about some Pioneer head units taking steering wheel controls without an adapter.
Still unsure, but some sites say the new Sony xav-ax200 takes Steering Wheel Remote Inputs without an adapter. Check before buying, I guess.
I have an xav and it's the lagged pos I've ever seen. Worst mistake
Is it this model?
I played around with this one in store and it seemed very snappy
My xav-612bt has been mostly great apart from the phone mirroring that never worked.
^same here - used a XAV-612BT and XAV-701BT and they're both smooth.
Phone mirroring in general (from any manufacturer) is really bad and not worth it - it's slow and buggy.
3.3/5 from 27 reviews on Amazon
Reviews online seem ok, shame there's no C&C around me but I'll take the delivery and see how it goes.
Thanks for the bargain!
Doesn't have all the features as the Sony, but I would whole heartedly recommend this unit for around the same price:
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/gps-car-audio/kenwood/kenwood-dpx-…
The screen is worthless if you can't navigate from it. Everything else can be done more efficiently with physical controls, unless you want to watch a video which you shouldn't be doing while driving anyway. There are budget Android 5.1 units on ebay for not much more than this that allow you to do just about everything.
Link to a quality one?
Why ask me for a quality one when I mentioned a budget one? Frankly the budget ones have the same specs or better than these in most departments. If you want a quality one they can be had for under 400, but I wouldn't bother because the cheaper ones are fine, failure rates are low.
The alternative is keep buying brand name overpriced goods that are delibrately hamstrung of standards and features (e.g. Android, carpley etc.) so that they can direct you to $1000 units which have no price justification
FWIW I didn't neg you but if you've had a good experience with a "quality" budget one it'd be nice of you to share
To me, quality implies a low failure rate. So a unit can be 'budget' and still 'quality'.
@dexx: exactly, but everyone's definition of quality is different. What I might post as quality would just be discounted by most because it's not a name brand.
@turkz1: i don't have one, but I have been looking at these on and off for a few months and only one unit in that time have I heard bad things about. The cheapest on ebay atm that supports Android (5.1) has been this one which looks to have one genuine good review, and is cheaper than the advertised one: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/142321784917
This one from the same seller (tomtop, not sure if I have ever bought something from them) has a number of decent reviews and costs a bit more, but for the extra dollars you get Android so multiple gps apps, plenty of other apps and decent software support for e.g playing movies. You can go up from here but as you go up it's easier to find reviews so you can google those relatively easily.
I also have a friend showing bought one but ended up just using it in his house, hasn't had a problem so far but his provides the same features as above for more money do no point looking at it IMO.
Those budget units can be pretty terrible though - had an Eonos double DIN that had touchscreen issues, unimpressive audio quality and occasionally just locked up on boot (I hated that bit the most - if I'm in my car, it means I need to drive somewhere and I don't have time to sit there and troubleshoot my car stereo!).
Ended up with a Pioneer HU + Android tablet wired in via AOA 2.0. Digital stereo quality + steering wheel control support. Also nice thing about Pioneer HUs is that you can wire in steering controls directly without buying an expensive interface box (but you have to know where the wires for the steering wheel controls in your car are, which means reading your car's wiring diagrams…).
And some of them can do a microphone calibration of your speakers. It makes an enormous difference to sound quality.
Which Pioneer HU are you using, and is the AOA 2.0 reliable? I found that AOA 2.0 can be hit and miss.
Pioneer DEH-X7850BT with a Lenovo Tab 3 7". Works fine 98% of the time - very rarely it fails to hook the steering wheel controls properly but unplugging it and plugging it back in gets it to work. I got the Pioneer specifically because it works with AOA in all apps (unlike Kenwood which only works with their Kenwood app) so I run it with the Automate app + Google Play Music.
Only stutter is that occasionally it takes 10 seconds to skip a song - probably because the cheap Lenovo tablet I'm using only has 1GB of RAM. I picked up the Plus variant of the tablet with 3GB of RAM from a recent deal though, so hopefully that will fix that issue once it arrives.
@toomuchdogfur: So you can play music directly through USB cable with any music player, and not bluetooth? And can you hear a difference between playing through USB cable and bluetooth?
I couldn't get AOA to work with FH-X785BT - supposedly from the same generation as yours.
@tukanglistrik: Yep, audio and media controls directly through USB - worked fine with the aforementioned Lenovo tablet and my Nexus 6P as well, no bluetooth involved. Worked with Google Play Music and YouTube, in theory any audio source should work though. I'm not sure if it sounds any better than playing via Bluetooth as I haven't tried BT with this particular head unit, but I'd imagine you'd only notice the difference if you upgraded the amp and speakers as well.
When you say AOA isn't working, what in particular does it do/not do? I recall that I had to change a setting in the Pioneer menus to stop it from trying to use the Pioneer app on my phone (instead of GPM/YT).
@toomuchdogfur: Yeah I have a pretty good amp and speakers, and my doors are fully covered with sound deadening. I definitely can hear the difference between Bluetooth and CD so am hoping to get similar quality with AOA on high quality MP3 or FLAC.
I'm not sure what's the problem, as I could never get the AOA to work with Poweramp/Google Play Music/Youtube, or any other players. It's working fine with Pioneer's app but of course it sucks, so I had to go back to Bluetooth. What setting did you change? Note that it's currently under repair as it no longer remembers the Bluetooth pairing, perhaps something to do with the internal memory, but pretty sure it's not related to the AOA.
No DAB?! Come on!
yeah even the highest model from that era didnt have DAB ,its a shame, but i have DAB myself and its quite worthless in WA
Any idea on the installation charges at JB? Or where can you have it done cheaper?
They're flushing old stocks out to the market. Even though they're cheap, I would recommend to wait for one with Apple Carplay/Android Auto on sale. To me, that feature is a must nowadays.
The XAV-AX100 has this for about $600 currently. The xav-ax200 has just come out with some minor improvements.
The Android compatibility and mirroring on the older xav-612bt and similar (this one) is pretty hit and miss depending on your phone model. It was meant to provide full screen mirroring of what was on your phone but I've never got it working. Lots of people whining about this on forums.
Any recommendation for an unit which can be use for reverse camera display?
Item removed from site.
looks expired. says $479
Anyone seen any deals on a Single DIN, with Bluetooth & DAB?
Wouldn't mind a unit that did Apple Car?
Are these incar audio systems cheapish? I've been really wanting to replace the stock one in the toyota RAV4 2009 model, but am too n00b. Basically want one that has bluetooth connection so i can stop using a damn AUX port lol
Also are the sizes of these units standard? I mean like if your cut out on the dash is the narrow ones, are all narrow ones going to fit, similarly are the taller units also going to fit and are standard?
All aftermarket head units are DIN standard. 1DIN or 2DIN (single or double slot).
Your car might have a DIN standard unit, many do, but some don't.
You can usually buy new fascia kits that are DIN standard for most vehicles.
In terms of wiring, you just buy two cables that fit together:
Radio Manufacturer Plug -> ISO Standard
ISO Standard - > Car Manufacturer Plug
:)
That's it? ok wait sorry so…
How do you tell if your car is DIN standard?
With the wiring i'm guessing it's like plugging in power cables into your motherboard, if the plug's are different then the pins don't line up?
Where do you normally source ISO Standard to Car man plugs from?
Thanks!
No reverse camera input?