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I installed this stereo in a 2002 Subaru WRX sedan. The fit is a thing of beauty; it looks like it came from the factory, but is much cooler visually than the stock stereo. Connecting to the separately-purchased installation kit's wiring harness was easy; the Kenwood wires' colors matched the colors of the harness wires. Soldering connections is something I recommend because it's the best electrically and avoids future problems. I left the factory speakers and subwoofer in place because they sound good. I loved the radio at first, but things went downhill as I got to know it better. These are the main problems: 1) With "PANDORA" painted on the face of the radio, you would expect Pandora to work well, but it doesn't. It worked fine at first, but soon got stuck in a mode where it only shows "READING", "CONNECT ERROR", or "CHECK DEVICE". I contacted Kenwood about the issue and they pointed the finger at Pandora. I contacted Pandora and they pointed the finger at Kenwood. Since doing a paperclip-assisted hard reset on the stereo temporarily fixes the problem, I blame Kenwood. 2) Audio sourced from Bluetooth has frequent loud pops and clicks. In Kenwood's defense, Bluetooth is fundamentally flawed. Although it claims to be a cable-replacement technology, it is anything but. Imagine if you had to have a different type of USB cable for each different type of device. That's what Bluetooth profiles are. 3) Scrolling through audio sources is annoyingly slow. For several sources, (USB, iHeartRadio, etc.), the stereo has to stop and see if something is connected before it will let you scroll past it. Most sources cannot be hidden or disabled. So you can't scroll nearly as fast as you want, and sources you will never use (i.e. Rear USB) must be scrolled past each time, forever. 4) The hands-free phone feature sounds so bad that it's unusable. 5) The HD Radio is loud when in HD mode and quiet in regular-old-FM mode. You'll be listening, and your radio is going quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD all the time. I disabled HD and now just listen to regular FM. 6) WIth sunglasses on, I can't read the display during the day, and my car has every window tinted as dark as the law allows.Read full review
Verified purchase: No
I installed this stereo in a 2002 Subaru WRX sedan. The fit is a thing of beauty; it looks like it came from the factory, but is much cooler visually than the stock stereo. Connecting to the separately-purchased installation kit's wiring harness was easy; the Kenwood wires' colors matched the colors of the harness wires. Soldering connections is something I recommend because it's the best electrically and avoids future problems. I left the factory speakers and subwoofer in place because they sound good. I loved the radio at first, but things went downhill as I got to know it better. These are the main problems: 1) With "PANDORA" painted on the face of the radio, you would expect Pandora to work well, but it doesn't. It worked fine at first, but soon got stuck in a mode where it only shows "READING", "CONNECT ERROR", or "CHECK DEVICE". I contacted Kenwood about the issue and they pointed the finger at Pandora. I contacted Pandora and they pointed the finger at Kenwood. Since doing a paperclip-assisted hard reset on the stereo temporarily fixes the problem, I blame Kenwood. 2) Audio sourced from Bluetooth has frequent loud pops and clicks. In Kenwood's defense, Bluetooth is fundamentally flawed. Although it claims to be a cable-replacement technology, it is anything but. Imagine if you had to have a different type of USB cable for each different type of device. That's what Bluetooth profiles are. 3) Scrolling through audio sources is annoyingly slow. For several sources, (USB, iHeartRadio, etc.), the stereo has to stop and see if something is connected before it will let you scroll past it. Most sources cannot be hidden or disabled. So you can't scroll nearly as fast as you want, and sources you will never use (i.e. Rear USB) must be scrolled past each time, forever. 4) The hands-free phone feature sounds so bad that it's unusable. 5) The HD Radio is loud when in HD mode and quiet in regular-old-FM mode. You'll be listening, and your radio is going quiet-LOUD-quiet-LOUD all the time. I disabled HD and now just listen to regular FM. 6) WIth sunglasses on, I can't read the display during the day, and my car has every window tinted as dark as the law allows.Read full review
Verified purchase: No
Love this head unit. Does all I need it to do. Highly customizable lighting, EQ, and sound controls. With that said, be prepared too spend some time fine tuning all your settings to get your music sounding just they way you want. Bluetooth is crystal clear on phone calls. Other than that, very happy I purchased this.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
Unit sounds great. Really improved the sound in my ford superduty.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Refurbished
Very nice stereo,older model. 793 is the newer model.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
