JVC KD-R900 30K Color-Illumination Single-DIN Flip-Down CD Receiver with Dual USB 2.0 for iPod/iPhone and Bluetooth

by JVC

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 10.9 x 4.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001PLBWUK
• Item model number: KDR900
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,155 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

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Amazon.com Product Description JVC's flagship KD-R900 CD receiver gives you connection choices galore. Bluetooth Wireless Technology with the included USB adapter allows hands-free calls and audio streaming, offering both safety and convenience. With front and rear dual USB ports, you can easily play music from your iPod/iPhone or USB devices, in pure sound created by MOS-FET power amp and TI/Burr-Brown 24-bit DAC. The Variable-Color Illumination offers 30 preset color choices--or customize your own color from over 30,000 variations. Additional features include a front auxiliary input, HS-IVi tuner, and 3-band parametric iEQ. You can also enjoy HD Radio(R) and SAT Radio with optional tuners.

Expanded connection, control, and convenience. Click to enlarge.

Front auxiliary input and front/back USB ports.

Includes full-featured remote. Click to enlarge.

Easy, intuitive controls.

Includes high-quality external wired microphone.

Variable-Color Illumination
Variable-Color Illumination lets you get just the look you want, or match your vehicle's interior lighting, offering 30 preset color choices--or customize your own from over 30,000 variations.

CD and MP3/WMA Playback
Enjoy your favorite CDs or burnt CD-R/RWs, or get more bang for your buck with MP3/WMA discs--burn hours of music to one disc and get ID3-TAG support for display of artist and song info. You can also enjoy MP3/WMA files from USB devices.

AM/FM Radio with HS-IVi Tuner
Sometimes you just want to listen to the radio. The KD-R900's AM/FM radio features automatic presetting of strongest signals and 6 presets for each band.

The HS-IVi tuner features higher sensitivity, thanks to three IF bandwidths (wide, middle and narrow). It also includes AM Noise Canceller plus upgraded IF filters that help avoid the distortion caused by interference from adjacent stations.

To get even more from the airwaves, add JVC optional hardware for HD Radio or SAT Radio reception.

Dual USB Ports
The JVC KD-R900 features not only an integrated front USB port connection, but also an external rear cable/port for connecting an additional USB device. This flexibility enables you to customize how you use your stereo's connections to work best with portable devices--eliminating the need to constantly switch libraries while driving. JVC's Dual USB stereos allow two of these devices to connect simultaneously: iPhone/iPod, Portable Hard Drive, USB Memory Devices, Bluetooth (using included USB-Bluetooth Adapter), Digital Audio Players.

iPod Connectivity
You can also operate your iPod via the USB port. Control your iPod/iPhone from either the player itself or from the receiver's controls, while allowing song and artist information display, play, pause, skip, or back commands from either device.

USB Plug and Charge
Full Battery charging of USB devices such as iPod/iPhone, Digital Audio Players, and other USB-based devices such as Digital cameras and cell phones (USB-based charging adapter required for some devices).

Built-in Bluetooth Wireless Technology
The KD-R900 and KD-R900 include a USB Bluetooth adapter "Dongle" that can be plugged into either USB port to enable full Bluetooth wireless technology features such as:

• Hands Free Calling
• Voice Dialing
• Wireless Audio Streaming
• Text Message Notifi cation
• Phonebook Transfer

High quality external microphone also included.

Dial in Your Sound
Perfect your sound with a three-band parametric equalizer and Loudness control for low level listening.

Input and Output
Three pairs of preamp outputs (front, rear, and subwoofer) are provided for adding a little extra power to the KD-R900's onboard 50W x 4 amplifier.

A 3.5mm front panel auxiliary input is also included for use with MP3 players or other external audio devices.

Bluetooth Ready
Bluetooth Wireless Technology is available with an optional adapter. A maximum of five compatible mobile phones can be registered for hands-free calling. With voice-recognition mobile phones, you can dial by just saying the name in your phone book. The wireless functions work even if your mobile phone is tucked away in your bag or pocket. You can also stream music from a compatible digital audio player, for listening on your car stereo.

Wireless Remote
A full-featured wireless remote is include for controlling receiver functions.

What's in the Box
JVC KD-R900 Receiver, trim ring, sleeve, remote control, microphone, wiring harness, installation hardware, installation manual, instructions

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Receiver with Bluetooth and USB for the price, May 28, 2009

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W. Robertson "Rob Robertson" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JVC KD-R900 30K Color-Illumination Single-DIN Flip-Down CD Receiver with Dual USB 2.0 for iPod/iPhone and Bluetooth (Electronics)

Somehow I became a JVC man. I started off in 2002 following a recommendation from a friend to get a deck that could read MP3s. Since then I've bought three more decks and always came back to JVC. They tend to have innovative features, such as initially the ability to read MP3s on CDs, and then a front panel USB ports. I really looked at the specs for Sony, Pioneer, Eclipse, and Kenwood, but they never compared feature wise.

So the RD-900 looks good and does a lot: Bluetooth, a USB port and a 3.5mm audio in on the front panel. With the RD-900 I bought the optional HD Radio adapter the KT-HD300. It works great. JVC paired down a lot of gimmicky cruft they had an previous models. You get the choose the color of the display, so you can match you cars lighting and gauges.

There is a front and rear USB port. One has to pick one for use with the tiny BT adapter. If you use USB sticks like me, it make sense to use the BT adapter on the rear. If you prefer to use a small USB hard drive or IPOD in your glove box or console, you might want to route the rear port there and put the BT adapter in the front port.

The HD Radio is cool. I live in a big city so I get good reception. Finding a place to put the HD Radio adapter is a pain. I would rather have bought a unit without a CD player and HD Radio built in.

There are a few nits. No hard radio presets: one has the scroll through a menu. The bluetooth could interact with my Nokia better --- it turns on BT music streaming, but does not turn it off; placing calls should be easier; and when getting an SMS message, displaying it would be nicer than just alerting you that you have one. The fonts could be thicker. A previous JVC I had had that option. The front USB port comes off with the faceplate, which is annoying, cuz now you have to take out the USB stick and put that away when stowing the faceplate.

I can't speak to the iPod or iPhone compatibility.

Oh I just noticed that the LEDs are polarized horizontally, making the display unreadable with polarized sunglasses unless one tilts their head.

A Recommendation:

If you are like me and have all your music on a USB thumbdrive, it becomes quite a pain to remove the thumbdrive when stowing the faceplate. My solution is to find a thumbdrive that minimally extends from the faceplate, and keep it on semi permanently. There are drives and microSDHC to USB adaptors that extend only 5mm or so. Brands to google for are "Eagletec Nano" and "Buffalo 5mm". They come in up to 16GB in size.

UPDATE: JVC has come out with a firmware update for this unit. It supposedly addresses "hands free call quality". It is nice to know that JVC is fixing issues with this device.

I've traded up my Nokia for a Samsung Galaxy S variant running Android. It works flawlessly with the KD-R900.

And one final nit: It would be nice if the unit could pair with two phones simultaneously, so that it would automagically pair with my wife's or my phone when we get in the car.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Flawed but powerful unit, February 10, 2010

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Paul Grant (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JVC KD-R900 30K Color-Illumination Single-DIN Flip-Down CD Receiver with Dual USB 2.0 for iPod/iPhone and Bluetooth (Electronics)

The Good

Bluetooth comes with
dual Usb and JVC link
great microphone
24bit processing
HQ amplifier
strong radio reception
easy iPod/iPhone chrging
switches over your iPhone-iTunes to Bluetooth seamlessly when calling or a call comes in
rotary knob can pause/play
nice phone button easy to locate and use

The Bad

forward/backward key far too small
up/down keys have no functionality on iPhone
scrolling through playlists is painfully slow... Up/down keys should have been used to skip A / B / C and so on
scrolling phone lists is equally painful
faceplate is not motorized

The Ugly

engineers kept the same small sloppy 3 line interface from the 800 model
some info is duplicated unessisarily, like showing 'FM' twice along with a junky radio tower image
too little contrast on-screen by not mixing in any white text with the colour text
font for titles too thin... causes a kind of ghost fade as name streams across
auto setting for brightness level does not apparently work well
they put pink/red buttons at top left which can clash with your main colour
illumination at night can make the Menu and back keys hard to read
useless visual EQ

Recommendtion

flawed unit has Bluetooth and kick-butt sound for under 200 that not even Alpine can touch
due to the poor iPhone/iPod list scolling, you may opt to use your handheld controls for some functions
recommend you mount iPhone/iPod next to unit
if you can wait a year to buy, hopefully JVC will rip off Pioneer and Alpine interfaces on the update

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't beat the price, May 12, 2011

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Jon - See all my reviews

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This review is from: JVC KD-R900 30K Color-Illumination Single-DIN Flip-Down CD Receiver with Dual USB 2.0 for iPod/iPhone and Bluetooth (Electronics)

I've had this unit installed in my vehicle for almost a week now. I did a lot of research before purchasing. I'm very satisfied w/ it, and it certainly is the best deck you can find for the price.

Pros: Bluetooth, remote, great sound quality, 30 different display colors to choose from, features for the price.

Cons: Noise quality for bluetooth calls is not very clear for the person on the other end, screen is small and dull, faceplate is a little awkward to attach, overall build quality is OK.

I previously owned a JVC kd-sh55 that I had for over 5 years. It had a brushed aluminum motorized faceplate and a nicer display, but was also $100 more w/ no bluetooth, HD radio capabilities, and the sound quality on the r900 is superior. I use my Android phone to play music through the bluetooth and the sound quality is excellent. I'm going to try to move the mic for the bluetooth away from the door more to see if call quality improves. I would definitley recommend purchasing this unit. If you want a better deck w/ similar features, you will pay $100 more.