Sound Storm Laboratories DDCP62 Car Stereo - Apple CarPlay, Double Din, 6.2 Inch Capacitive Touchscreen, Bluetooth, No DVD CD Player, AM/FM Radio Receiver, Wireless Remote Control

After using the unit for 3 months, I thoughtr I would provide a review. This unit is a really good value for the price. I really wanted something that had wireless carplay and this fit the bill perfectly. The car I put it in is older and I didn't want to invest. a bunch of money. This unit has worked really well. The unit boots up quickly and wirelessly connects to my phone fairly fast. I haven't had a single issue with carplay once connected. it works exactly as expected. Apple maps, Spotify, calling, and messages all work just like the brand new head unit in my other car.With that said, if you are buying this head unit for the tuner, you may be disappointed. The reception is very poor. and is almost unusable except for stations with a very strong signal. The sound quality is good considering the price of this unit. It is louder than I need. The touch screen is responsive. The only issue is with the mute button in the bottom left corner - sometimes it is hard to hit it just right so that the sound turns off.Because I use Carplay 99% of the time, i have only done limited testing of the built in bluetooth functions, but they seem to work well. I have also tested Android Auto and have found the experience to be very good.In summary, if you are primarily using this head unit for Carplay / Android Auto, this is a good option.

I would say the car stereo’s interface needs some more work although very nice. The screen display or screen navigation is still much better than my old stereo system that came stock with the 2010 Honda CRV. It’s so hard to complain about his from what I had from before. I think that it just one se things that when you have an iPhone, you expect a lot when using a touch screen. I would not have had time to go to each manufacturer’s car stereo and so this user interface is really good enough for most people..I don’t think any of these car stereo devices work as well as the latest units that come built into a newer model car like 2018 model and newer. It’s a very nice car stereo that has uses a lightning cable plug for CarPlay which is traditional for most aftermarket car stereo system. I would say that the new cars have a very nice system interface. This car stereo has great value for the money paid.I would highly suggest for a professional to install this car stereo with backup camera for you since many people are not too familiar with installation of the back up camera. You will need for the right wiring adapter and plastic mounts for your car. This is probably a project that you only do a few times to your cars and so it’s not worth your energy or time to learn to do it yourself. If you install the car stereo only, it could be very possible for someone handy to do this. I would just focus and learn how to do speaker installation instead of car stereo with backup camera.Make sure you purchase the recommend electronic control unit that allows your steering wheel to have the ability to control the menu choices on this car stereo. Without the car steering wheel controller for your stereo, the buttons on your car steering wheel are rendered useless. It’s good to have controls on your car or work. The controller costs around $75 and retail stores could charge you $125 or more for the unit itself. The recommended controller is listed in some of the car speaker descriptions on Amazon.

I installed this radio on my 03 Highlander with formerly JBL tuning. After a few hustles it was great. Radio looks beautiful and stylish. Just the right size for the car. I bypassed the JBL amplifier and used the radio's inbuilt amp. The sound is loud enough and tuning is flawless. Everything works well. My disappointment was with the digital signal processing of music, the radio on it's own doesn't sound deep enough , the quality of sound is basic to me, even the equalizers couldn't really do so much till I used an enhanced stream from the phone using my jetAudio plus sound adjustment then all went perfectly well. The Bluetooth sometimes gets buggy. I noticed this when I paused music to take calls with my earbuds and on return the radio was frozen. Had to restart the car this waking up the radio. Would I recommend Thai radio? ABSOLUTELY. it's a fine piece of gear, thank you Sound storm labs. We shall appreciate a software update perhaps .

This is the first time I've strayed from higher priced brands we all know. I can't say enough how impressed I am with this unit. I mainly wanted to add Apple CarPlay functionality but also wanted to upgrade the Subaru WRX STI stock stereo - which is lacking. I went with this unit after researching available options. You really get a ton of features without breaking the bank. The install was fairly easy and the upgrade is overwhelmingly noticeable. I love having CarPlay and everything else, like backup camera, working seamlessly. The Subaru was a pain given their funky wiring and lack of wiring diagrams but I was able to get everything working. The video quality is impressive - even my backup camera looks better than on my stock head unit. I love the EQ and features. The supplied microphone also sounds great compared to the Subaru Bluetooth connection. People can't even tell I'm driving so that's impressive. Easy to ground the parking brake wire to watch video at any time but do not ground to the unit or it will trip the camera sensor and boot up to a no video signal error. I ended-up calling support for help with this error and they couldn't figure it out. They were good about offering to exchange mine. They're based on the US (huge deal to me) and were easy to reach by phone and email.I don't miss DVD or CD players and can easily connect a flash drive with music, pictures and movies. Spotify streams beautifully as does Amazon.Loved it so much I've bought additional units to upgrade other cars. I haven't had any problems with mine so I'm confused by other reviews. There is no volume knob as one review stated so I wonder if those are for another product. This has been solid and should anything negative happen I'll update my review.

had it for around a month, noticed the hands free calling is absolute junk, can't hear what people are saying, might be another problem I suppose but I doubt it, the Bluetooth skips out a lot and sometimes forgets my phone at times and just refuses to pair with it, stopped reading my USB and a it's only happened twice but it randomly would turn on and just start playing music at full blast and it said volume was already at zero so I had to turn the key off and unpair so I didn't go deaf. other than that it's decent. probably wouldn't buy it again though