{"id":159,"date":"2005-05-18T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/03\/159\/"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T23:31:04","slug":"new-car-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/18\/new-car-stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"New Car Stereo: Pioneer DEH-P6700MP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well,\"\" if I’m going on a cross country road-trip, I’ve got to have tunes. Along the way, there will be spots where geography and the laws of electromagnetic propogation will conspire to reduce my musical choices down to God fearin’ Radio and God Fearin’ radio. So I got me a Pioneer DEH-P6700MP CD receiver with MP3 \/ WMA playback with Organic EL display. It is so tech. I just hope the display doesn’t pull a Trapper Keeper<\/a> on me.<\/p>\n

Quickie review: It sounds -nice-. The tuner is a tiny bit better than the tuner in the stock radio. MP3s sound sweet. It sounds very “full”. I’m a little worried that I’ll blow out my speakers if I crank the bass too much; the factory sound system has something like 12 watts, now we’re cranking 40+.<\/p>\n

I freaked out when I was driving home in the dark. The display kept inverting every 10 seconds… first white on black, then black on white. It was as if my (ficticious) little brother was sitting next to me and flicking on a flashlight every couple seconds. After 5 minutes of that, I was screaming at the radio, “Cut it out! You’re driving me crazy!” I vowed that if I couldn’t find a fix, I’d have to return the radio. It turns out that…<\/p>\n

Demo Modes:<\/strong> This unit has a Reverse Demo Mode and a Feature Demo Mode. In Reverse Demo Mode, if you do not perform an operation for a period of 30 seconds, the display begins reversing colors. It continues reversing colors every 10 seconds until a button is pushed…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What the frig is that “demo mode” for? Whatever. I turned it off. Chalk up 1 “win” for the day.<\/p>\n

Here is how to disable the annoying “Demo” mode<\/p>\n

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  1. Turn the radio off.<\/li>\n
  2. Push “Memory 5” for just a second (you\u2019ll hear a little beep)<\/li>\n
  3. Done!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There is another demo mode by pushing “Memory 6”. Read the comments for more…<\/p>\n

    One problem down, one to go. I just have to figure out how to make the screen about 1\/2 as bright at night and I’ll love this radio.<\/p>\n

    (actually, I’d -love- if it could do .ogg or .flac but I’ll live. It just takes 5 minutes to convert an entire CD from one format to another.<\/p>\n

    update<\/strong>: Here is the Operation Manual for the Pioneer DEHP6700MP<\/a>. And here is the Installation Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Well, if I’m going on a cross country road-trip, I’ve got to have tunes. Along the way, there will be spots where geography and the laws of electromagnetic propogation will conspire to reduce my musical choices down to God fearin’ Radio and God Fearin’ radio. So I got me a Pioneer DEH-P6700MP CD receiver with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}