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The Kenwood Excelon DNX9140 navigation receiver gives you turn-by-turn directions from its internal Garmin navigation system, plus built-in Bluetooth for safer hands-free calling. The DNX9140's VGA screen boasts a level of detail and brightness that's steps ahead of lesser models, for vibrant movie playback when you're parked, and outstanding detail and clarity when you're using the intuitive menus and navigation features.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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What do you want to know? Is it a good product that does what it supposed to do? Yes! You have to buy a hook up to connect your ipod to it so you can play the videos on your ipod. You have to buy the rear cam also to hook up to it. It is a great product. I love watching my ipod videos on it. I love the quality of the screen. It works fast enough for me and I show it in my video. You can hook up a 5 channel amp for the front and one to your subs too. You can have your xm, ipod, xbox 360, radio, nav, tel, tunner all hooked up and ready to play! Can also use the video out to go to another source. I have a Honda Del Sol so not much use of another source for me. ha. Some of the concerns I had when reading the reviews I go over in my video. I hope it helps!; I had to edit the video a little. I took out the middle, but the key points are still there.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Update - Apr 23, 2011
I am very frustrated with this player and I wish I had bought something else. I use it for four things:
* Listening to music stored on a USB memory stick,
* Listening to the radio (mostly HD stations),
* Hands-free phone conversations, and
* Navigation.
Because it doesn't support the lossless Windows media audio format, I had to convert my music (over 1000 CDs) into a lossy MP3 format. My car has good speakers, and I care a lot about audio quality, so I used the highest MP3 bit rate supported by the player. Unfortunately (and their online documentation confirms this), this strains the limits of the player to keep up and so the music will randomly pause for a few seconds during playback. On average, this happens one to two times per song. In addition, the entire unit will occasionally reboot, though not that often when playing music from a USB source (maybe once or twice a week).
However, when listening to HD radio stations, the unit reboots a lot, sometimes as frequently as every few minutes. It also seems to depend on which station I'm listening to--on some stations, it hardly reboots at all, while on one particular station, it will reboot multiple times during a single song.
On the positive side, though, I've never had it reboot during a phone conversation (I use it with my iPhone 3GS). The sound is clear (no Bluetooth distortion) and the other side can hear my clearly. There have been times when the unit and my iPhone will refuse to talk to each other, and the only way to fix it has been to delete them from each other's Bluetooth lists and then have them rediscover each other.
The best thing about the unit is the navigation. I don't necessarily follow the exact route it recommends (it can't adjust for local traffic conditions), but it's great for getting me to locations I've never been to before.
That being said, the media-related user interfaces are hard to use. Some of the on-screen buttons are small, and you have to hit them precisely to get them to work. This is difficult to do in a moving vehicle. In addition, common tasks (such as choosing a different album) take many more button presses than they need to, which means I have to take my eyes off the road frequently. Changing radio stations is also burdensome. The presets aren't displayed until you press a button, and then there are only six. If you want to choose a station not on that list, you have to change radio bands (FM1, FM2, AM) until you get to the one with the preset you're looking for. A few seconds after that, the preset list goes away. If you change stations frequently (as I do), this becomes very distracting while driving.
Kenwood has not released any firmware updates for the multimedia part of this unit since I wrote my original review (below).
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When the factory CD player in my 350Z recently went out, I stopped by a local car stereo installation shop where they recommended this unit. Now that I've owned it for a couple of weeks, I wish I had researched it first. It has a lot of features, sounds good and has a very clear display. However, I feel those positives are outweighed by a large number of annoyances.
* It takes about 20 seconds to start up.
* It randomly reboots (which aggravates the slow start up).
* If you play music from your iPhone and don't disconnect it between turning off and turning your car back on, it will resume playing from where it left off for about 10 seconds and then go totally silent. You have to disconnect the iPhone and then reconnect it to get the sound back (and that doesn't always work).
* USB storage device options are limited. It only supports FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, and only up to 32GB in size.
* In addition, it only supports up to 255 folders and 255 files per folder. That may seem like a lot, but I was planning on attaching a large solid-state drive to the unit with a copy of my entire CD collection, which far exceeds those limits.
* It only supports up to 320Kbps WMA encoding, and not lossless. I cannot listen to anything in my Windows Media library without converting it.
* The user interface often requires you to navigate through multiple menus/screens to perform common functions. For example, if you are playing music while the navigation screen is up and you want to change tracks, you have to navigate back to the AV source screen first. This is very distracting while driving, and all the more annoying given that the current song's title is shown at the bottom of the navigation screen. Why didn't they put a few common buttons (forward, back, pause) next to the song title?
Overall, I cannot recommend this unit. I have reconfirmed that all of these problems and limitations exist with the latest firmware versions as of Dec. 18, 2009 (GPS version 3.20 and player version 1.8).
I am very frustrated with this player and I wish I had bought something else. I use it for four things:
* Listening to music stored on a USB memory stick,
* Listening to the radio (mostly HD stations),
* Hands-free phone conversations, and
* Navigation.
Because it doesn't support the lossless Windows media audio format, I had to convert my music (over 1000 CDs) into a lossy MP3 format. My car has good speakers, and I care a lot about audio quality, so I used the highest MP3 bit rate supported by the player. Unfortunately (and their online documentation confirms this), this strains the limits of the player to keep up and so the music will randomly pause for a few seconds during playback. On average, this happens one to two times per song. In addition, the entire unit will occasionally reboot, though not that often when playing music from a USB source (maybe once or twice a week).
However, when listening to HD radio stations, the unit reboots a lot, sometimes as frequently as every few minutes. It also seems to depend on which station I'm listening to--on some stations, it hardly reboots at all, while on one particular station, it will reboot multiple times during a single song.
On the positive side, though, I've never had it reboot during a phone conversation (I use it with my iPhone 3GS). The sound is clear (no Bluetooth distortion) and the other side can hear my clearly. There have been times when the unit and my iPhone will refuse to talk to each other, and the only way to fix it has been to delete them from each other's Bluetooth lists and then have them rediscover each other.
The best thing about the unit is the navigation. I don't necessarily follow the exact route it recommends (it can't adjust for local traffic conditions), but it's great for getting me to locations I've never been to before.
That being said, the media-related user interfaces are hard to use. Some of the on-screen buttons are small, and you have to hit them precisely to get them to work. This is difficult to do in a moving vehicle. In addition, common tasks (such as choosing a different album) take many more button presses than they need to, which means I have to take my eyes off the road frequently. Changing radio stations is also burdensome. The presets aren't displayed until you press a button, and then there are only six. If you want to choose a station not on that list, you have to change radio bands (FM1, FM2, AM) until you get to the one with the preset you're looking for. A few seconds after that, the preset list goes away. If you change stations frequently (as I do), this becomes very distracting while driving.
Kenwood has not released any firmware updates for the multimedia part of this unit since I wrote my original review (below).
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When the factory CD player in my 350Z recently went out, I stopped by a local car stereo installation shop where they recommended this unit. Now that I've owned it for a couple of weeks, I wish I had researched it first. It has a lot of features, sounds good and has a very clear display. However, I feel those positives are outweighed by a large number of annoyances.
* It takes about 20 seconds to start up.
* It randomly reboots (which aggravates the slow start up).
* If you play music from your iPhone and don't disconnect it between turning off and turning your car back on, it will resume playing from where it left off for about 10 seconds and then go totally silent. You have to disconnect the iPhone and then reconnect it to get the sound back (and that doesn't always work).
* USB storage device options are limited. It only supports FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, and only up to 32GB in size.
* In addition, it only supports up to 255 folders and 255 files per folder. That may seem like a lot, but I was planning on attaching a large solid-state drive to the unit with a copy of my entire CD collection, which far exceeds those limits.
* It only supports up to 320Kbps WMA encoding, and not lossless. I cannot listen to anything in my Windows Media library without converting it.
* The user interface often requires you to navigate through multiple menus/screens to perform common functions. For example, if you are playing music while the navigation screen is up and you want to change tracks, you have to navigate back to the AV source screen first. This is very distracting while driving, and all the more annoying given that the current song's title is shown at the bottom of the navigation screen. Why didn't they put a few common buttons (forward, back, pause) next to the song title?
Overall, I cannot recommend this unit. I have reconfirmed that all of these problems and limitations exist with the latest firmware versions as of Dec. 18, 2009 (GPS version 3.20 and player version 1.8).
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
I must agree with others who say this device is complicated, but several readings of the manual and some fiddling bring you tremendously good results! I added a rear-view camera, XM radio, a 5-channel alpine amplifier, 10" Alpine subwoofer and infinity 3-way speakers and WOW! What a sound!. The unit has superb voice contrlol and amazingly diverse sound controls. I can play files from a USB hard drive and my iphone/ipod, including music videos. The video on the 7" screen is awesome! The Garmin software is wonderful - I have three other Garmin untis so it was very easy for me to master. The only glitch I have had is that my ipod loses connectivity sometimes. I still don't know why, but a simple cable reconnect fixes it. I also love to have video podcasts on in the car.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Interface is lacking..
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Super radio, glad I got it.
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Great Head Unit, One Missing Feature
Absolutely superb head-unit/nav system/etc. I had someone else do the installation, so I can't really comment properly on the ease of install. Read more
Published on January 24, 2010 by Jason M. Vanpatten
Exceptional sound & nav, difficult to learn functionality
Sound quality exceeds expectations!
Navigation is above average - voice commands that work!
All the navigation options AND GPS SETTINGS can be set by voice... Read more
Navigation is above average - voice commands that work!
All the navigation options AND GPS SETTINGS can be set by voice... Read more
Published on December 21, 2009 by Solver
It's a good equipment
It's fine for me, The only bad things is the voice reconition, It is very difficult to work with it.
Published on December 21, 2009 by Samuel Figueroa
No Changer?
Nice unit, but no CD/DVD changer option is the deal breaker for me. I'm going with the Alpine.
Published on November 26, 2009 by Erric B. Knight
What I needed!
This DNX9140 has everything , easy to use, had it installed,gift for my daughter,she loves it.
Published on November 25, 2009 by JABELLA
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feature packed unit which is the top of the line kenwood. took some reading of the manual, but it was all pretty straight foward. Read more
Published on November 20, 2009 by Leonard Ruttenberg
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