Dad's Father's Day Gift

[TRTC360]

That's the exact model that I run.

It's an awesome unit with a lot of nice features and it has high-voltage pre outs should your dad ever want to upgrade down the road.

There is one major quirk about this unit that I tell just about anyone who brings it up. If you or your dad or whoever wants to use an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or any iOS device, it will often give you an annoying error code that can only be fixed by cycling through the sources. Something about iOS and Pioneer's firmware don't mix, so it will often trigger an error code within the unit. It will still work even with the error code, but the screen will just read " Error - 16" instead of the music information. This happens to me just about every other time I get in my car. It is really a non issue for me though because I have it set on the headunit to control via iPod instead of on the deck itself.

If you don't think your dad will ever use an iOS device on it, then disregard everything I just said. Also note I said iOS devices, it will work just fine with regular iPods like the classic.

do you think I could set my kenwood deck to control via ipod instead of the deck also? i hate not being able to charge my ipod and control it at the same time,

[canderton01]

do you think I could set my kenwood deck to control via ipod instead of the deck also? i hate not being able to charge my ipod and control it at the same time,

You should be able to. Just look around in the settings menus. I'm not sure about kenwoods, but on my Pioneer it's something like "USB Control Mode" and you can toggle it between "via iPod" and "via deck".

Edited June 14, 2011 by canderton01

[Dylank811]

Honestly, if it were me buying it, my cheap ass would be on ebay buying it! But it was a shared gift from the family and my stepmom wanted to get it from bestbuy for the 6 months interest free thing haha.