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Originally Posted by NVmySKILS
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Pfft. Fine. I was going to be lazy and not do that, but here you go
Car is a little dirty right now as I don't have a lot of motivation to clean it when it's 8 outside and going to be snowing in in a few days =/ I'll vacuum it tonight though.
The display and pretty neat but the spectrum analyzer isn't as responsive as I'd like. I'm used to Winamp for playing music on my PC though. Sort of hard to make out in the pictures. It does come with about a 2 foot black USB cable, which is nice but I still need to buy an iPod cable for it and find a good place for it. It may be a summer project to drill out a cable hole in the center console and mount it/just stick the cable inside there.
Last pic is of the unit to be taken off. After you turn off the car it will pop out about 3 seconds later to be taken off. If you don't, within about 5 seconds it will go back to normal.
Edit: Forgot a lot of my review :P
The unit seems pretty good. The interface is VERY user unfriendly at first. I work on PCs for my job and I had to look up in the manual just how to set the stupid clock. Logic would think it has something to do with hitting the the clock button but to set it you need to look down the SRC button to power down and then the large button until the initial settings menu pops up and scroll to clock. Well.... after I started to understand it more and use it, I'm getting used to it. The graphics is selectable but only 2 are worth a damn. The equailizer one I have in the pictures and a random city fly by that doesn't move to the music. Like I said before, they aren't responsive to much too much. There's about a 1/4 of a second delay so it's a large disconnect for music. The sound quality is decent. My evo is stock but it still has a lot of engine noise compared to a normal car (not that I'm complaining).
I would recommend the unit. The downsides are the initial learning curve, one button for everything (good and bad), and the head unit container is a piece of junk with two tiny slit of padding.
Upside: Even though a little laggy for my taste, the backgrounds are pretty good. They are all ok but I'd only use the two I listed. It came with a remote but no idea what the hell I'd use it for. Sort of large and flat so not really steering wheel mountable. iPod interface is cool but still havn't used it. It has a feature so you can control the songs from your iPod or stereo but seems nice since I rather use the iPod for initial playing and then stereo to skip ahead. The blue color is cool but red would be nicer for our car but it still flow very nice at night.
It's good enough for me where I don't think I'll need new speakers, which was my goal. I used to have factory woofers in the back of my old sunfire and that produced really good bass for a factory system. It might be that I'm just not used to 4 true speakers anymore. Without my recommended settings the hollowed out sound is very bad. Hope this helps if anyone wants to get this unit. 
