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5 Reviews for VRCD500SDU, The 3 in 1 Car Radio USB & SD slot
Quirky Flaws In a Potentially Great Unit - 26 Feb 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Play from any source- sound is fine. Buttons are easy to use, and it has a buttload of features BUT FIRST: Cuts off approximately the first half second of every song played back on a USB or SD. Can as a result lose the first two words of a song or screw up the listening tempo by starting on a offbeat. Weird, and unnecessary. SECOND: and possibly the most moronic condition of this player, is it doesn't remember where it left off, if turned off, it goes to the beginning of the track. If you're listening to a chapter in a book, and you have to stop the car, you're screwed. If you're rockin' to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, and you have to stop the car, you're screwed. THIRD: The display tells you nothing. If you're going to depend on the display, plan on rewriting all your ID3 tags on all your music. (I am told there is software that will do this.)
I called customer support at Roadmaster, and asked if there was a firmware upgrade planned and the reponse was, "Uh nah, that's just the way it is." when I asked about who the real manufacturer was they said, "Uh, these are made by many companies, I couldn't tell you."
Seems like two little downloads by a company that cared about your experience could fix these may-cause-you-to-not-buy-this-unit flaws.
But no.
It's still a cool unit, if your expectations are LOW.
not worth the money - 01 Jan 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
this is rubbish i had 2 of these and thay are a complete waste of money.
thay dont work.
After Further Review... - 08 Dec 2007
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
The Roadmaster VR3 supports many features that no stereo should go without. There are a couple of drawbacks with this car stereo, however, that may prevent it from standing out to some. Keep in mind that I like this car stereo a lot.
First, this VR3 does not remember what part of the song it was last playing on after the car has been off and then turned back on whenever in CD/USB/SD Memory mode. In other words, it will always start a track from the beginning after power off or after mode switch. Also, you have to press on the clock button each and every time you wish to view the time. But the advantages clearly outweigh the negatives. To have the CD Player and the USB/SD slots actually work is more than one can ask for. I haven't had any problems with this product so far. This is definitely a clever device.
On that note...if you pay close attention to that movie Superbad, you'll notice that in a scene Seth has the same exact car stereo, which is cool because these kids (Seth and Evan) are nerds, so they gotta know a thing or two about technology according to the stereotype. Cool movie, by the way, taking into consideration that I found Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin boring. Now, what is the difference between the VRCD400SDU and the VRCD500SDU you may wonder...well, nothing aside from the faceplate design; otherwise these two models are exactly the same.
The VR3's features are unmatched: it has CD/USB/SD Card access, fully reads text/ID3 tags, has shuffle/repeat, and possesses a mute/pause feature. Let's not forget that the "Loud" button is also included. Such an innovative device, however, would be greatly improved with an incorporated feature that remembers what part of the song it was last playing whenever the units is powered off/on or on mode change. But for the price, you can't complain either. Trust me, this is a great unit by all means. I know because I've tried the Sony CDX-GT610Ui, the JVC KD-G830, and the Kenwood KDC-MP435U (all of these have a USB front port); yet none of them come close to my VR3. This car stereo is certainly my favorite. The advantages clearly won me over the name-brand ones, as all car stereos have their negatives. I'll definitely be buying this stereo again should it ever break.
Somewhat satisfied - 01 Aug 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Well I saw this item about a year ago and wanted it but waited for the price to come down. It came down from $130 to $79. Bouth it at Target.
My car stereo has an ok sound but only tape deck. A toyota rav 4 2000.
I wanted better sound so it says is 180 watts, great. I figured I also needed new speakers for it. I bouth 2 paris of the same brand of 150 watt per speaker. I got a great price. I had it professionaly installed but I was dissapointed about the sound. My old car speakers were 20 watt each. 4 speakers and I had replaced it with the new 4 of 150 watt each. The sound had not change almost at all. Something is defenitely wrong here.
Other than that it works great with all kinds of CD's and the USB and SD card.
Great unit for the money! - 25 Jan 2007
14 out of 14 found this review helpful.
I've had the VRCD400SDU for a couple of weeks now. First off, I had emailed the company's tech support asking about the difference between the two VRCD400SDU and VRCD500SDU. I got a response within 24 hours (not too shabby!) saying that the two models are the same except for the faceplate design. I bought the 400 because I thought it's faceplate was a little nicer. I found both for $[...]- one at Walmart and the other at Target.
I replaced an Alpine that I had for over 10 years with this, not expecting much soundwise, considering I paid about a quarter of the price. I have to say that, after a little tweaking of the bass, treble and fading, I am very pleasantly surprised to find that the sound is very acceptable on my factory Honda speakers. Plenty of volume.
As for features, I couldn't find anything that compares. I checked BestBuy, CircuitCity, Tweeter and a couple of others. First of all, these places didn't have *anything* that offered SD slot AND USB slot AND auxiliary input. Second of all, the ones that offered any *one* of these features started at $[...] and went way up from there.
I use the SD slot almost exclusively. The ultimate in convenience. I bring it into the house occassionally and re-sync it using Windows Media Player and then pop it back in on Random mode for weeks' worth of fresh tunes.
Based on my experience so far, I can't understand why anyone would pay more (double, triple and beyond) for a name-brand, when this unit has more features and is very adequate sonically for the average listener.
And if it only lasts me a few years, I'll go buy another one for $[...] and still be ahead of the game.
As with anything else, there are always some things I would like to see done better:
- I've found the search features to be pretty much useless. The character search looks for the closest alphabetical match to the MP3's filename. It would be much more useful if it searched through the ID3 tag info. Who remembers all the filenames for the MP3's???
- The display doesn't fit too many characters, so it's always scrolling. It's a little difficult to read a long scrolling artist-song-album string while driving.
- As others have mentioned, after staring the car, it remembers the song it left off on, but not where in the song. So, it always resumes at the beginning of the song. This can be annoying if you're doing a lot of stops around town.