Clarion DXZ835MP

Price Paid:  $200.00 from ?

Year / Model Reviewed:
 DXZ 835 MP

Summary:
I don't know whats with these other reviews but I love this reciever. It reads absolutly everything I put in it and has great power at 53 watts over 4 channels. Clarion makes very good head units

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Value Rating
 2 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $250.00 from Online Retailer

Year / Model Reviewed:
2003 Clarion DXZ835MP

Strengths:
Toggle switch 4 subwoofer volume was nice

Weaknesses:
Noisy Slow Won't accept warranty claims if bought online

Summary:
This was my first time using Clarion. I am unimpressed, to say the least. I listen almost exclusively to MP3 cd's or CD-R/CD-RW's and the player was very slow to read and the players mechanism's were very noisy. I mention the player in past tense because it won't read ANY cd's (burned or otherwise) now and I've taken it out of my convertible 2000 Mustang GT. I only used it for about 9 months. About a week after it stopped reading any discs it wouldn't eject the disc I was putting in (i thought it might magically start working again). I got mad and bumped the player with my palm and now the tuner won't even produce sound. I won't buy Clarion again, despite my audiophile friends opinions.

Similar Products Used:
Kenwood Blaupunkt Panasonic Alpine

Price Paid:  $350.00 from Car Audio Dealer

Year / Model Reviewed:
1996 Clarion DXZ835

Strengths:
Toggle switch controlling sub levels Fully variable color display

Weaknesses:
Weak out-put Poor signal processing in my opinion

Summary:
I'm not overly impressed with the Clarion 835. I recently purchased it after my Ghost fried. The layout of the unit itself isn't very user friendly. The buttons are hard to read and small. A nice feature however is having the sub control as a toggle switch on the face. I was hoping that with the 24 bit processor it would slightly improve the sound quality due to the meager 4V pre-outs. This is not the case, I can not get the unit to produce anything near what my Ghost was doing, I'm running a set of Boston Pro 5.5, and JL VR690 all amped off a JL 300/4. That should tell you something right there.

Price Paid:  $200.00 from 2nd hand store

Year / Model Reviewed:
2003 clarion

Strengths:
none

Weaknesses:
reads mp3s way to slow

Summary:
This is the 1st time ive ever used clarion ive always used alpine and im not happy with it at all it says it changes over 700 colors and i could not get the color to match my e.q. and also it didnt sound half as good as any of my alpines or my brand new top of the line sony.

Similar Products Used:
none