2 din Pioneer radio: specifications, review

The Pioneer company produces high-quality multimedia equipment, including both 1 din and 2 din radio tape recorders, as well as accessories for them. All car radios are equipped with a large number of functions. The price of car radios depends on them. For a car radio with a navigation system, Bluetooth or other useful functions, you will have to pay a considerable amount.

Technical components of the Pioneer SPH-DA120

Description of Pioneer SPH-DA120

SPH-DA120 - 2 din Pioneer radio with navigation. The connection function of both Android and Apple devices is available. There is also an Apple CarPlay feature that allows you to control your own Apple device from the screen of the car radio without being distracted from the road. For example, from the screen of the radio, you can dial any subscriber and talk on the remote microphone included in the kit, use navigation programs and broadcast the image from the iPhone screen to the screen of the radio.

The 2 din display of the Pioneer radio with a diagonal of 6 inches and a resolution of 800 * 480 pixels has touch control and fits perfectly into the interior of any car.

The radio tape recorder has excellent sound, as well as at all production of the Pioneer company. Each channel has 27 watts of rated power. There is a connector for connecting a subwoofer.

The processor 2 din of the Pioneer radio has a sufficient number of radio settings, thanks to which you can adjust both the level of the overall output signal and the level of the subwoofer and each channel individually.

Using the steering wheel control, you can control the device thanks to the adapter located at the rear.

The average price of this radio in the Russian market is 25,000 rubles, which in terms of currency is $ 375. The analogue of 2 din Pioneer SPH-DA120 radio recorder is considered Alpine iLX-700, which costs about 45 000 rubles.

Technical components of the Pioneer MVH-AV290BT

Description of Pioneer MVH-AV290BT

MVH-AV290BT - 2 din Pioneer radio with Bluetooth. It began to be released quite recently - in 2017. Belongs to the class of budget radio tape recorders.

This 2 din radio has a touch screen with a diagonal of 6 inches. Thanks to him, you can easily control all the capabilities of the radio without using any buttons.

In front is a huge touch screen, near it are the control buttons: decrease / increase volume, scroll through tracks and radio stations, the "Home" button, the display on and off button.

Features of 2 din Pioneer radio:

• the presence of a mini-jack, thanks to which you can use a laptop, tablet, phone and other equipment with an AUX connector to play tracks. With it, you can output sound to the speakers of a car radio while listening to tracks or watching a movie;
• USB-connector, thanks to which you can listen to and view multimedia, pre-loaded on a flash drive;
• A connector for the parking camera with projection stripes on the screen, which makes it easier to navigate when reversing. Also, when reverse gear is engaged, the image from the camera automatically appears on the screen, even on older models of cars with a manual gearbox;
• Support Bluetooth connection. Thanks to it, you can connect all devices with support for this function. For example, if there are no speakers in the car, you can connect to a portable Bluetooth speaker. You can also receive incoming calls and talk using the built-in microphone.

The 2 din interface of the Pioneer radio is very simple and intuitive, and most importantly, Russified. The radio is capable of playing many formats, both audio and video. When using flash drives, you can apply navigation to folders, files. There is also a search by track, album, artist, video title.

The set comes with a car radio 2 din radio, a disk with instructions, wires for connecting to power and a remote microphone.

Pioneer 8701

Model 8701 - 2 din "Android" -magnetol "Pioneer". The operating system is Android 5.1.

This radio has 16 gigabytes of internal memory and 1 gigabyte of RAM, as well as a Wi-Fi module and a GPS module, which is a remote GPS antenna, which is usually either installed on the side of the front panel of the car or glued behind the rearview mirror.

The presence of a Bluetooth module allows you to connect up to 2 devices to the car radio. It is also possible to talk on the phone thanks to a remote microphone.

The kit includes the radio itself, a removable shaft, a remote control, ISO cables, a GPS antenna, a remote microphone, and instructions downloaded to the CD.

On the front panel of the 2 din Pioneer radio is a huge display with a resolution of 1024 * 600 pixels. There is a coating against sunlight, as well as touch control. There are mechanical buttons near the monitor: action return, Home button, task manager, encoder for adjusting the volume level, mini-jack and USB-connector.

Conclusion

Each car owner has its own criteria for choosing a car radio. But most people pay attention to the reliability of the assembly, the brand of the product, as well as the presence of some functions that are currently popular, such as Bluetooth, a navigation system and other useful functions that make driving a car more comfortable. Pioneer radios perfectly meet all these requirements.