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D2 - Sat Nav, ICE, Audio & TV All in car entertainment discussions |
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Could this be the definitive stereo/ Nav upgrade?
I have been pondering on an upgrade to the current RNS-D offering in the D2 and happened upon this as a solution:
https://www.kenwood.eu/car/navigatio...ia/DMX9720XDS/ Chap on Youtube: https://youtu.be/b5N0rzlwcJM It is a 'floating' screen akin to the modern way of doing things. Just looking for opinions from the forum. One thing I did like is you can customise the buttons to have the same backlighting as the rest of the car through an RGB interface. I did look at the Alpine unit but the lack of a volume knob and the white backlighting has put me off. https://youtu.be/LDnUZm_l7X4 What say you all?
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Its an impressive piece of kit, but unfortunately far too tall for the D2 dash at 262wx181h, and would obscure all of the upper switches and the top of the hvac controls
Even if the top switches were relocated you'd still lose seat heaters, windscreen demist and recirculate from the hvac. Something similar with an 8" screen would probably be doable. As you noticed though, the Kenwood seems to be the only one with a proper volume button which is so annoying. Also, none of the other vendors of these floating screen units appear to be inclined to show dimensions of the actual panel so its hard to determine what would and wouldn't work. |
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https://www.alpine.co.uk/p/Products/...View/ilx-f903d might be worth a compromise. No control knob for volume but I found in the manual that you can change the button colour background and turn the white backlighting off, though whether the button background colour is an 'Audi red' remains to be seen. Im just getting 'hung up' on the floating dash design. Its a shame the vertical adjustment isnt motorised eh MJ?
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! Last edited by strummagnet; 24th August 2021 at 11:33 AM. |
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Also a fairly impressive machine, although a shame it doesn't have a high definition screen like the Kenwood. Given the amazing displays available for phones and tablets I remain disappointed that most of the car audio manufacturers are still using 480p
At least the Alpine has a mute button to make up for no volume knob, although are they actually buttons? "touch-responsive hard-keys" implies they're just sensors, not actual switches. Floating displays are a reasonable way to get more real estate than a simple double-din, but most of them seem to assume there is nothing else important around the head unit and no one seems interested in a wide-format version, which is the one dimension in which we have plenty of room BTW I tried last year to make my own head unit based on off the shelf HD touch screens and a Raspberry Pi. The hardware is simple, but alas the software support is rubbish and has nothing like the polish of a mainstream head unit, and because the Pi doesn't have any form of power control getting it to power up and down is messy, complicated and slow. Last edited by MikkiJayne; 24th August 2021 at 12:38 PM. |
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I'm pretty happy with the joying 9" i have in mine, whats bugging me most s the location, when you lose nav instructions in the cluster i really find the stock HU position way too low
I have an idea for a replacement with a screen above the vents. Just pondering what i put where the HU normally sits |
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Single din swap with a phone cubby? Not that single din parts are particularly easy to find now.
I was looking at an MMI swap with the screen popping out of the top using D3 bits, maybe an A3 control panel in the dash, but given how troublesome that mechanism seems to be, plus the headache of component protection, its looking less appealing. |
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or Subwoofer?
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Paul Gosport UK ________________________ Audi S8 2002 FE Avus Silver / Extended Red Leather. Daily Driver: BMW 3 series GT - Just more practical for my camping trips! |
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But you also reminded me about this story, which might go to durability concerns: The Smoking Tire's Matt Farah once told a story of the latest Corvette (may have been the launch of the C8) having a 720p touch screen and complaining to a GM engineer about Tesla having 1080p screens in their cars. The Engineer went on to say (paraphrasing) let's see where those screens are after 10 years and 100,000 miles in Arizona. Basically referring to those types of screens lacking durability in an automotive application (vibration, heat, UV etc). Some Model S's must be up there now, so how have their screens stood the test of time?
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Cheers Marty ____________________ Current: 2001 Audi S8 - Brilliant Black with Black interior, C5 RS6 rims (whenever I actually put them on...), Solar Sunroof, Tinted side and rear glass, RNS-D, Grom, Bose, clunky old phone in arm rest! 2002 Audi S8 - Project Replacement head coming arrived thanks to MJ Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that). Family: 2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design - has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car! Sold: 1997 Audi A4 - Hamilton's Club Sport, Achat Grey (will miss the old girl) Last edited by 27litres; 30th August 2021 at 01:42 PM. |
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My android unit (as seen in my thread) has a 1080p screen and Oasis DVD does look great on it
EDIT: its actually 1024x600, but does support 1080p playback Last edited by Ronin; 31st August 2021 at 08:21 AM. |
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