Sound Storm Laboratories DDML28B Car Audio Stereo System - Double Din Head Unit, Bluetooth Audio and Hands-Free Calling, MP3 Player, USB Port, AUX Input, Mechless No CD Player, AM/FM Radio Receiver

I’ve installed two of these in my daughters’ cars. Decent sound on the factory speakers. Bluetooth is easy to set up and they can play their music from their phones no problem (which makes me a tech hero : ) This is not a high end head unit for an audiophile as evidenced by the price. This is a good basic unit that connects easily to phones, sounds pretty good, and has a big fat volume knob. Only downside is it doesn’t dim with headlights on but the blue light isn’t so bright at night to be distracting (not half as bright as touchscreens in modern cars). Easy as any other aftermarket radio to install. Buy a dash kit and a wiring harness and watch a YouTube video. Anyone can do it.

The sound emanating from this almost easy-to-install radio is spectacular, but the installation is a little convoluted if you know nothing amount installing and splicing a bunch of tiny yellow, purple, blue, white and green wires with black electrical tape. Sadly, I tried three times to buy the proper interface connector but every item was wrong, so I had to splice all the wires. Also, I cannot get the radio to stay in "memory" so I adjust each channel every time I put the car on, but the price and sound quality makes it all worth the stereo.

This is good replacement radio for those folks who are on a budget or don't feel that replacing the car radio with an expensive unit is a worthwhie investment (like me). My only complaint is that the way the volume button is designed. It would not fit in my Nissan Xterra. It interfered with the reinstallation of the dash console cover. Easy fix! I installed the radio upside down. Of course the display is upside down, but I don't care. The radio serves it's purpose.

Installed myself and works great. Just wish there was a better wiring diagram to be found. Very happy with the radio and it’s functions. Only wish I could stop the equalizer bars from bouncing on the screen all the time. A little distracting at night. Other than that very nice.

I bought this on short notice when the OEM stereo in my car went out right before a long road-trip. It came with very minimal instructions, basically a few pages on how to use the features, but nothing on installation. I was able to work it out. The unit apparently has no built in noise suppression, so you will need to get an in-line suppressor. The CD player takes a very long time to start playing. I have not timed it, but when you put in a disk it spends a long time thinking before it starts to play. Finally, the display has a faux graphic display on the sides. It's just a blinking light that serves no purpose and cant be turned off. I find is annoying during daylight, and distracting at night. I wound up covering it with gorilla tape. Once the road trip is over I'm going to rip the darn thing out and get a better unit, which should not be very hard to find. A call to the service number did not produce any solutions.

Sounds VERY good. Buttons and volume knob feel cheap, as if just normal use will quickly break them. The removable faceplate is precarious, just trying to remove a USB cable will pull the whole thing off the unit. The display is perfect not too bright at night, and not dim during the day. The buttons however are very bright, so much so its distracting at night. I have yet to find a way to adjust the brightness of either the buttons or the display. The hands free functionality is unusable in all but a literal sense. Technically you can place calls, if you have the number memorized and feel like fumbling with the remote, at which point your contact list in your phone will be easier and faster. You can receive calls, but since this unit uses your phones mic, you have to hold your phone to your face at which point you might as well just use your phone because you can't hear anything anyway. The Bluetooth media functionality is essentially a wireless aux cord, with no media info, or the ability to navigate your phones folders. Next and last buttons do change the track but only in the media folder you selected from your phones media player to play from. The USB port does appear to charge your phone at a normal rate (not really slow like some of these) but I have yet to be able to use it for anything but charging. I will try a few different cables to verify this and update later. I have not yet tried the USB flash drive functionality. As I use this unit more I will update this review I was hoping for a great deal on a unit that (from the pictures) didn't look gimmicky or cheap, and had all the functionality I wanted. What I got was a very good sounding unit, with minimally adequate functionality that does look a tiny bit cheap with VERY overbright buttons. I feel what you get for the price falls in the range of fair. I have paid less for units with better functionality, but more for units with inferior sound quality. If you just want something somewhat inexpensive that sounds good, and don't mind bright lights in the dash while your driving, I would say definitely buy it. If your looking for hands free functionality definitely don't buy it Aesthetically everyone has their own opinions, personally I could do without the bouncing bar graphs on each side of the display, and the over bright buttons, but otherwise I like the appearance of this unit. 7/20/18 update I have now had this unit installed for almost 2 years, and its still functioning just as it did when I installed it. I did have some trouble with random power downs and not reading my USB flash drive, but it turned out to be caused by the face plate. After I removed and replaced the face plate, and cycled the power the problems went away. The USB port works well for USB flash drives loaded with music. I never did get the USB tether to connect to any of my android phones. One annoyance I have discovered: As stated in my original review the hands free bluetooth functionality is more or less useless. If a phone has been bluetooth paired with the unit at any time, and if the bluetooth on the phone is on when a call is received, even after setting up not to, the unit will try to hijack the call, then after telling the phone to return to the handset for the call, a few minutes later the unit will hijack the call again. this will continue until bluetooth on the handset in question is disabled. This will even occur as far as 20 feet away from the vehicle.

Great product and great price very easy to install and works perfectly with bluetooth, I installed it on my Hyundai Santa fe 2007 , the only thing you need is a dash kit and a wire harness. And it will look like it belongs to your car .

Loving my new car stereo I can bluetooth my mp3 player and I am thrilled. Perfect for my Pontiac vibe 05. The price was great too. the huck up was a little challenging but for 2 old 50 ish people we got it together love it

Works great, but clock loses time.

I just installed this unit replacing my RV stereo and am Very Happy with my choice ! Sound is great and Specs are exceptional. Great Wattage ! I called the customer service # and received Exceptional Technical advice, exceptional. There are extra wires for installing in your car for back up camera's etc. Be ready with your question's, but they give you the information you need to connect to your RV. The RV install with support is easier than the normal auto installation. I wanted to play cd's and this unit gave me that I hope you have the same experience I have had from their technical support. Great sound and Wattage output 👍🏻👍🏻

Muy buen producto buena relación precio - calidad definitivamente lo recomiendo . . . . . . . . .

Se necesita un marco mas grande ya que es un poco mas pequeño que 2 din de los lados, pero funciona excelente

Fantastic pour roulotte Même connector que l origine Beau sons