Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great product works well highly recommended great tech

Good head unit for the price.......................

Ended up trading this in for a complete unit. Best Buy stepped up and allowed me a fair trade for something that would work.

This was an ok head unit. I would recommend to jvc kenwood loyalist

Bought a detachable cd/radio/bluetooth for my new car that has no cd player. Hands free phone was a disappointment.

Its cheap i just needed something to charge my iphone but unfortantely come to find it dont wanna reconize an iphone 10

I bought a higher-end single-DIN Pioneer head unit with Bluetooth back in January and had never been super-happy with it. When it died, still under warranty, I decided to replace it and resell the repaired unit when it returned from service. I went after the 790BT because of past decent experience with JVC. The 790BT is a very nice head unit, very simple and straightforward controls, more readable-in-daylight display than the Pioneer, sounded MUCH better and more muscular in the amplification stage than the Pioneer, and played my provided FLAC files off a flash drive just perfectly. One big issue, unfortunately: constant mini-skips and dropouts in Bluetooth playback, on the order of 10-15 of them (!) per three-minute song.... even if I would set the phone just inches away from the head unit. After upgrading the firmware to the latest version (yep, this is a thing!), reinitializing the BT memory, testing multiple phones and other Bluetooth audio devices with same phones, and speaking a couple times to JVC customer service, I thought I might just have a bad unit. My local Best Buy was nice enough to let me try another 790BT without swapping out all the wiring harness stuff. But as soon as it went into the dash, yep, same Bluetooth-hiccup problem, little half-second audio burps all the way from BB back to my driveway. So it's going back too. I put in a super-cheap no-name Bluetooth media unit to "survive" while waiting for my Pioneer to come back from warranty service. Turns out that super-cheap unit does what the two 790BTs could not - i.e., work flawlessly with my phone over Bluetooth with essentially zero audio glitching, let alone the constant case of the hiccups the JVCs both had. The Pioneer also had no problems maintaining BT fairly steadily with the same phone. Just for its very nice power output stage and interface design alone, I really liked the JVC a lot and tried everything to keep it... but it's 2018, and if a head unit can't maintain a reasonably continuous stream of audio over Bluetooth, it's useless to me. Your mileage may vary, and I actually hope it does, because the 790BT is a really nice value-priced head unit otherwise.