| JVC KD-DB101 - DAB / radio tuner / CD / MP3 player - Full-DIN - in-dash - 50 Watts x 4 |  | Brand: JVC
Buy New: £149.99
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Seller: Car Audio Discount
Rating:  3 reviews
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9.7 x 5.3
MPN: KD-DB101
Model: KD-DB101
EAN: 4975769333910
ASIN: B000RL417A
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Imagine getting digital quality sound from your radio - no crackling, hissing or fading. Now with a built-in DAB (Digital Audio Broadcastiing) tuner, you can enjoy exactly that, plus next-generation services like text and data broaadcasts, with no external tuner necessary.This CD receiver with built-in DAB tuner lets you enjoy digital quality sound and text information from digital radio. Choose from dozens of new stations as well as all of your regular favourites. 4 X 50W power, this full-featured unit plays CD/CD-R/CD-RW, MP3 and WMA files and features an easy to read, multi-colour display and has a front mounted aux input for your portable player.
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 Excellent radio May 12, 2010
Bob Prothero
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Easy to install (in an Astra), easy to use/tune, works fine, reception with DAB HAL1 GLASS MOUNT AERIAL is fine (in west London)
 JVC KD-DB101 DAB Car Radio June 28, 2008
J. P. Boot (Nottingham UK)
43 out of 43 found this review helpful
I took delivery of this radio two days ago and had it fitted professionally by a local installer. It was replacing a JVC KD-G611 (Radio/CD/MP3 capable and 3.5 jack input at front) which I have had for about 3 years. Similar in layout and controls,therefore, the KD-DB101 is 50w per channel, MP3/WMA capable and also with front AUX input, but with the glorious addition of integrated DAB.
The installation was easy enough but for a failure to ensure the memory was backed up by 12V, which was quickly resolved. DAB reception requires its own antenna. The HAL-1 was included in my purchase, but beware, this can come as an extra from some suppliers and will add about £30 if it doesn't. This is a discreet cat's whisker thin dipole mounted (vertically) on the inside of the windscreen with an adhesive strip. Once in place it is virtually invisible and seems to work very well, even in poor areas of the city. Whether a more expensive external antenna would be better I cannot say. The usual FM car antenna serves for FM and AM reception.
The KD-DB101 is a bit fiddly to set up: FM and AM each have 5 memory buttons, as does each of the 3 DAB bands. Tuning for DAB is a matter of detecting groups of stations on a set frequency and then seeing which ones are on that cluster and saving those you like. Having found the first, you move to the next cluster and do the same. In other words, you can easily miss a whole cluster of stations unless you look if you are not aware of the basic difference between DAB and "standard" tuning. I connected the car's pod on the steering wheel which now changes channel and volume etc. An adaptor may be required for this. Now for a nice surprise: when tuned to a DAB station - eg Radio 4 - and where this station may be also in memory on FM, poor DAB reception will trigger an automatic change to FM rather than end up with silence. Similarly tuning to FM seems to allow an automatic "upgrade" to DAB if in memory. I have yet to test this to its limit on a journey out of town where reception is patchier than in the city. Of course since there is no equivalent to Radio 7 or World Service on FM, this welcome extra will not work. How TP (traffic) cuts in on DAB I have also yet to experience.
There is a choice of display on the front panel. Scrolling script will tell you (on DAB) programme details: perhaps best left off when driving, but useful to have. Programme name, type or clock are alternative displays. CD and MP3/WMA works fine.
All in all, very good value for money; well designed and once set up easy to control. DAB quality and reception excellent and sensitive. Not even a burble on losing DAB signals. For me this was a retirement present, and it is just what I wanted.
Excellent radio shame about the 'optional extras' July 12, 2010
LtCol K. Malin (Edinburgh, Scotland)
I agree with the other reviewers, the radio itself is excellent.
My only gripe is the box has on it a list of features the radios which includes the 'Steering Remote' however, it wasn't included and when I contacted Celstores was informed it was an optional extra. The burb on the box is very misleading.
So after purchasing the radio I then had to buy the antenna and now have the remote on order.
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