OT ish: Pikey Bluetooth Head Unit

When using SD cards, it starts again at the beginning of the track you had it on, not part way through the track. So, not quite the same place, but not the end of the world :-)

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DanB
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P.s. He reports the Bluetooth works ok, and it comes with a little remote you can stick somewhere and use that for answering/dialling/numberpad/volume/select etc, or just press answer on the H/U if you want. It also displays caller ID on the H/U when someone rings and stuff. He seems to like it anyway, especially since it was so cheap. The easiest way to dial a call though is to have your phone in a cradle on the dash still and use it to dial, because he says it won't scroll through the contacts and stuff. You can dial on the H/U using the preset buttons, or on the remote, but you need to know the number - which is a bit gay of course.

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DanB

My old ALDI one does. Took me a while to realise you could hold down the FF/REW buttons to skim stuff as well as pressing it to go back/forward a whole track.

I listen to podcasts on mine - with a short journey to work they are excellent as it just starts again where you left it, rather than missing most of every program I was listening to..

And when I had a long journey audio books worked well too - I got through the Lord of the Rings for the first time...

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PCPaul

My only experience of Bose was a home stereo setup in a shop- one of their flash looking sub and tiny satelite systems. It sounded sort of OK on a poppy track, lousy on vocals, even compared to my budget hi-fi of the time. That's a few years ago now, though.

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Chris Bartram

Mine has replaced an old pioneer, and the sound is as good on CD or radio.

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Chris Bartram

Cool. I'll get those LED valve dustcaps too....

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Chris Bartram

Bose gear is a triumph of marketing and psychology over substance. Stip any mainstream bose product down and you get plastic moulded cases and single cone speakers with fancy waveguides to give tuned one-note bass. Go into a bose shop and you'll be told to hear the lows and highs, be impressed by the "wow" factor from something so small then asked to pay 1000 quid for something with a material cost the same as a 50 quid stereo in Asda.

It's like B&O (hifi for the deaf) - but worse.

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Tim S Kemp

Back when I had a CD autochanger I loaded it with HHGTTG for journeys to work. I might consider ripping them to an SD now.

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Chris Bartram

So it gives an impressive bass kick, but only at the tuned frequency?

I've never actually heard any B&O, but that's what I guessed it would be like. Form over function.

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Chris Bartram

Pretty much, thought the wave radio is actually quite good for radio 4, or radio 3 at background music levels. Shame you can buy six Pure Evoke's for the same price...

B&O stuff is way better than Bose in every way, however the prices are obscene and performance no better than regular hi-fi stuff. All the stuff I've seen though is very well engineered as well as well designed and if I were into the designer stuff, drove an audi, had a manbag and used a macbook then I'd probably buy B&O too so I could listen to radio 3 while my boyfriend's at the fashion show.

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Tim S Kemp

You know...

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DervMan

I know someone who has one of the Lidl ones. I don't know if it's excessive noise cancellation due to him having a little car, but it sounds like he's ringing you up whilst he's in the shower.

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Doki

I haven't had anyone call me from one, but I have called the missus and she can she hear me fine and she comes through pretty clear in the car so it might well be the noise cancelling. The external mic unit next to the steering wheel might help me.

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Elder

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