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Originally Posted by Jayhovah
When I was looking into it - I didn't think you even needed a steering wheel adapter for steering controls... the inputs to the deck can supposedly just take the input directly.
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Ok I'd like to add to everything Z has posted.
First up the unit runs off of detecting resistance between two wires. Could this possibly be done off the canbus wires of the Z? Possibly but I doubt it. It's why I went ahead and kept the metra installed. You will need the adapter brown and brown and white wires from 3.5mm jack if using the Metra. The Pac should have dual output wires to detect off of.
To program the steering wheel controls....is stupidly simple. To the point where I thought the unit wasn't recognizing button presses. Let me explain. When entering steering wheel controls menus you are greeted with a blank screen with a reset and save button. Once you reprogram your metra (it will detect the unit as a JVC) you can press any button. This is where it gets easy. Once you press a button you are greeted with a dual menu setup. One with a short press and one with a long press. Under these menus is every control you could possibly program. So for the source short hold will return you to the home screen. A long hold I programmed for shutting down the unit. You can program any button with two commands. A short press and a long press. Once you select one or both you click done, then hit your next button. Once you're done programming your last button you hit save and you're done.
Next, up one thing that had me worried. Sound quality. More directly pre-output distortion. I set all gains with an SMD DD-1 distortion detector. This is highly accurate and tells me what's the highest volume a head unit can go to before clipping or distortion is detected. Happy to announce the unit was able to go to the maximum volume number with 0 distortion (with all EQ settings flat). A big positive for this unit. Now you could add a DAC to one of the USB outputs for the best signal but we didn't do this. Once thing that raised an eyebrow was only a MONO sub output. This isn't a big deal but would have liked to seen a L and R.
Is there a gap? NO! Not even able to fit a credit card between the DASH KIT and the unit. Not a single bit of gap period. For all you out there that love no gap this unit is for you.
Final thoughts, I like the unit. Would I buy one? Probably not but that's just me and my stickler for something that feels better built. Don't get me wrong this thing will play anything you push to it. Adding the app POWERAMP is HIGHLY recommended by myself. It's what I use on my phone.