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Review on 🚘 Soundstream VR-623B Bluetooth Car CD DVD Receiver with 6.2 Inch Touchscreen, High Resolution TFT LCD, Hands-Free Calls, Audio Streaming, USB, AUX, SD Card Inputs, LED RGB Colors, AM/FM Radio Stereo by Chris Shepherd

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Has a lifespan of approximately 2000 hours.

I'm a delivery driver, so I use the radio all the time at work, on the way to school, around town, etc. That's about 40 hours of use per week. Worked great for the first 6 months, then bluetooth started to fail - each time I had to switch between all 'channels', via radio, aux, spotify, etc. and finally back to bluetooth, and then hope it connected is or I would have to do the whole thing all over again. This frustrated me to the point where I simply turned off Bluetooth (which meant I was able to use my Apple Watch again - the radio was interfering with it). After about a month it restarted about once a week when I started the car. A few months later it just started not turning on when I started the car, but that only happened a few times a month. Around the 9 month mark, the radio started switching between Apple Music and Spotify at random, couldn't decide and kept cutting out the music. At the 11 month mark, the radio occasionally began not playing a tone of about 1/. 4 times, no AUX, iPod, radio etc. I couldn't even adjust the volume. To fix this I would have to power cycle the device to allow the radio to restart. Finally, about two weeks ago, two weeks after the warranty expired, I hit a pothole and it shut off. and won't turn on again. I took it out to check the connections and everything looked fine, but it wasn't working. I checked all the connections and fixed some issues but I couldn't get the radio working again. In the cold -6 degrees Celsius, the radio slipped out of my glove and got a small crack in my face, just a nail in the coffin lid. $100 and a radio, so that sucks; It's like a breakup, hehe. In short, if you plan to use this radio for a few hours every day, you will benefit from it for about a year. $100+ for a year of radio is a bad deal, find a better one. For commuting but maybe ok.

Pros
  • Easy to install
Cons
  • Everything is fine