JVC KD-G310 Car CD / MP3 Player
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Solid Head Unit
Pros
Good sound, MP3 CD Capability, Track names on screen, EXTREMELY durable.
Cons
Slow Scrolling speed when switching tracks,difficult to read in direct sunlight, no line-in component jacks.
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
I DO NOT recommend this unit for the simple reason that it doesn't have an easy way to connect an iPod. Look for a unit with the line-in option.
I when I bought this head unit i was looking for a relatively cheap option that would play cds. Until that point i was using the stock tape deck, the car is a 1994 camaro, and a sony walkman cd player with a car-kit. Obviously, an upgrade was needed from that setup.
Sound Quality:
As soon as this unit was put in, there was a huge improvement in sound quality. this is because the stock unit was pushing about 10 watts RMS while the JVC was doing 18x4 watts RMS. This was enough to make the factory speakers sound up to their full potential, which wasn't much, but was much more than they could do with the factory head unit. I recently upgraded to some kenwood 3-way speakers and again the sound has taken a giant leap forward in quality and volume before distortion. However I get the impression that the distortion at high volume is due to too little power at those decibel levels rather than too much. Either way, it sounds fantastic at normal volumes.
Features:
The MP3 CD playing capability of this unit is very convenient if you still use cds. It allows you to fit nearly 150 songs of average length onto a cd rather than the traditional 20. These can be sorted into folders before you create the cd and then the JVC allows you to search through the folders and choose the songs you want. At the same time the full text names of tracks and folders appear on the screen.
That is a very nice feature except the unit is very slow at scrolling through names. Switching between track names while browsing can take in excess of 1 second, which when searching through more than 100 songs adds up to a significant amount of time, especially while driving.
About 3 months after I bought the unit I decided to purchase an iPod. About a week later I decided Id like to connect that to my car stereo rather than always having to make new cds when I bought new music. So imagine my chagrin when I realized that the head unit I bought didn't have any line-in component jacks. It did however have a proprietary jack for which I could purchase an iPod adapter for the low low price of $100. I decided to take the hit on that one and get the adapter. I wasn't expecting much but I was impressed with the iPod navigation through the JVC head unit's screen. It was pretty intuitive and useful, but still suffered from the slow access times of the cd player.
Durability:
Whatever its downfalls in the screen department, this unit is extremely durable. I have left it sitting in direct sunlight for hours in the summer with the T-Tops off, it has survived temperatures of less than 0 F and most impressively the car was involved in a flood this past summer with the water level below the unit by about 6 inches. Amazingly, all of the wiring and electronics didn't suffer even in the extremely humid conditions created as a result of a car full of water (Fortunately the car survived unscathed except for the need of an extremely thorough interior cleaning to rid it of the smell of creek). So in short, this thing is as solid as a rock in nearly any conditions it would become subject to.
Misc:
The screen looks good at night with my dashboard lights(red, white, purple/blue color scheme), but at least from my driver position, the plastic gets a wicked glare in the sunlight and it makes it tough to see when its bright inside the vehicle.
Sound Quality:
As soon as this unit was put in, there was a huge improvement in sound quality. this is because the stock unit was pushing about 10 watts RMS while the JVC was doing 18x4 watts RMS. This was enough to make the factory speakers sound up to their full potential, which wasn't much, but was much more than they could do with the factory head unit. I recently upgraded to some kenwood 3-way speakers and again the sound has taken a giant leap forward in quality and volume before distortion. However I get the impression that the distortion at high volume is due to too little power at those decibel levels rather than too much. Either way, it sounds fantastic at normal volumes.
Features:
The MP3 CD playing capability of this unit is very convenient if you still use cds. It allows you to fit nearly 150 songs of average length onto a cd rather than the traditional 20. These can be sorted into folders before you create the cd and then the JVC allows you to search through the folders and choose the songs you want. At the same time the full text names of tracks and folders appear on the screen.
That is a very nice feature except the unit is very slow at scrolling through names. Switching between track names while browsing can take in excess of 1 second, which when searching through more than 100 songs adds up to a significant amount of time, especially while driving.
About 3 months after I bought the unit I decided to purchase an iPod. About a week later I decided Id like to connect that to my car stereo rather than always having to make new cds when I bought new music. So imagine my chagrin when I realized that the head unit I bought didn't have any line-in component jacks. It did however have a proprietary jack for which I could purchase an iPod adapter for the low low price of $100. I decided to take the hit on that one and get the adapter. I wasn't expecting much but I was impressed with the iPod navigation through the JVC head unit's screen. It was pretty intuitive and useful, but still suffered from the slow access times of the cd player.
Durability:
Whatever its downfalls in the screen department, this unit is extremely durable. I have left it sitting in direct sunlight for hours in the summer with the T-Tops off, it has survived temperatures of less than 0 F and most impressively the car was involved in a flood this past summer with the water level below the unit by about 6 inches. Amazingly, all of the wiring and electronics didn't suffer even in the extremely humid conditions created as a result of a car full of water (Fortunately the car survived unscathed except for the need of an extremely thorough interior cleaning to rid it of the smell of creek). So in short, this thing is as solid as a rock in nearly any conditions it would become subject to.
Misc:
The screen looks good at night with my dashboard lights(red, white, purple/blue color scheme), but at least from my driver position, the plastic gets a wicked glare in the sunlight and it makes it tough to see when its bright inside the vehicle.
