BOSS Audio Systems 632UAB Car Stereo - Single Din, Bluetooth, No CD DVD Player, AM/FM Radio Receiver, Wireless Remote Control, Aux in, USB

I challenged myself this go around too install the most Inexpensive sound system I could & NOT suffer in sound quality. I did NOT want to spend more than $40 on a deck. My goal was to NOT catch the eye of thieves & still enjoy a nice sounding car system. That said, I read the reviews for many lower end head units & this one kept popping up. I am extremely pleased with this purchase for what this unit can do. For a 'cheap' replacement this unit sounds very clean. Crisp highs & solid lows. It's just ' meat & potatoes ', no frills mobile audio which was EXACTLY what I was looking for. It does not have subwoofer controls but it DOES have the RCA input for one/some in the rear of the unit. If you have a remote knob for your amp this really shouldn't matter too you IF you don't it's a simple tweek of the bass EQ & poof...no biggie, it's all how you set up your sound settings. I've had MANY car stereo head units in my day & I can tell you that as far as the sound quality goes; this unit produces on par with higher end names. (This unit replaced an aging Alpine deck) No, The build quality is NOT on par with brands such as Alpine, you can tell it's made for it's price point. BUT After it's installed it does Look nice for what it is & it isn't overly bright/distracting at night unlike the Alpine was. As pointed out by another review, if the face of the unit is in sunlight it can be somewhat difficult to see the screen readout but As far as I am concerned I will be driving anyways so I like the fact it's easy to use/control without looking at it. so in my opinion the screen not being 'bright enough' in sunlight means little to me. The sound quality is clean from the USB input (which will charge an iPod/iPhone or or other device) & the SD card slot sounds just as clear. As for the Aux input, you can tweek the EQ of the device that you plug in too further enhance the sound settings if you choose. I like that it has the SD card slot (I have a 32g card in it & it reads it with NO problems) so I can always have what I want to hear without having to worry about someone breaking into my car cuz I forgot to 'hide' my iPod or other MP3 player or see a USB Drive sticking out. I've lived in high crime areas & I can say from experience after having my car broken into that IF you leave 'bait' in view of a thief they WILL take it, 'Out if sight/out of mind' is the name of that game. The less you leave visible the less likely you will loose it to sticky fingers! At night it's very hard to see this unit cuz it has no shinny surfaces or knobs, which I see as a BIG plus. The face is NOT detachable. Which I am quite fine with. The unit itself is secured in my dash with hex screws so it not having a detachable fact is no big deal. It has No CD player & again like another person pointed out this is where mobile media is headed. CD's are basically a thing if the past. I personally like that. They are too bulky & scratch far to easy to have in a vehicle anyway. In closing, if you're in the market for a simple, very nice sounding replacement deck for your car/truck this unit should fill your requirements without a problem & not hurt the wallet too badly. Plus IF you get broken into they aren't getting much.

I purchased this to achieve total freedom from CDs in my car, and I am really enjoying it now! This was my first time installing an aftermarket car radio, and installation was easy enough. However I had to try twice to find the right adapter kit for my car model...it's like the auto manufacturers make it ridiculously confusing on purpose. Sigh. This unit is perfect as a cheap yet fully functional radio. If you are serious about audio quality, or are picky about electronics interfaces, or are willing to spend more money, or want a unit with an above average power amplifier... this is probably not the unit for you. On the other hand if you really don't care a ton about those things, and just want a good basic unit at a value price, I would highly recommend this product (and I would not recommend going with anything even cheaper than this). I've had this for 1 year and it has shown no signs of early mortality. Seems robust enough. Other reviewers pointed out that it doesn't remember your volume level. This is a feature, not a bug: If you left the radio turned all the way up, your spouse probably doesn't want it to be that way when they start the car next time. When the volume is turned all the way up, it is about as loud as I would ever want it to be. It is not, however, loud enough to hurt my ears. So if you like to listen to your music really loud, you might not think this unit can get quite loud enough. But the amp power seems sufficient for average non-audiophiles. When playing from SD card, it DOES remember the song/position where you left off, and picks up from there when you start the car again...this was an important feature for me. Really the only feature this doesn't have, which does disappoint me, is ability to browse songs by folder. The only way to browse quickly is via the +10 and -10 buttons. But moving 10 tracks isn't very helpful when you really just want to find the first track on some other album. If you have a 16GB SD card completely full of music like I do, it's rather slow and painful to browse to an album at the end of the sequence. So this unit is better for those who want to play everything in order and don't care about skipping around. I definitely like my Blaupunkt Melbourne 120 a lot better (looks more classy, has folder browsing, interface and display are nicer), but it costs more than twice as much and doesn't do a whole lot more. So if you're looking for the best value for just simply playing SD cards... this radio can't be beat.

So I got this head unit to replace the stock one in my 1990 Ford F-250. It's an extended cab but only had the two speaker option including 2 speakers in the doors...6.5"ers, instead of the 4 speaker, with those, and two more 6x9's in the rear walls. I wanted a simple deck and figured I never use CD's anymore, and never use tapes..all I use is my MP3 player and the radio. So I bought this deck with the thought that I'd use a 2GB SD card I had to load all the music onto in folders and have my own MP3 player built into my truck. Wow, is all I can say. This unit is great. The price is low because there's way less moving parts and stuff than CD or Tape loaded decks but you still get the quality and power output of a higher priced deck. $35 and you get a true 50watts/ch, rca audio output, and a good looking radio. I also didn't want anything too flashy or bright, because I hate all the other decks that flash every color of the rainbow at you and give you a seizure while you're driving. It puts out enough power for my Polk Audio db651s's, and I have a FLI Audio sub hooked to it too and that works great. I've been using it since February and installed the sub in April, and so far I couldn't be happier with my purchase. I have over 150 songs that I have in genre named folders. The only things I wish was that it had were a dedicated subwoofer control, so I could turn my main speakers bass down when I wanted the sub to really pump. A little higher volume, because on certain songs I have it at 40 with no distortion but I want higher. Also I wish I could change the displays little VW bug hah, because I drive a large diesel truck and that always confuses people. And finally, I wish you could see the backlit clock in the daytime. It's not a problem with dimmer, it just simply isn't visible in the daytime. All in all, great product, and all my friends who see it think it's awesome, simple to use, and want one for their trucks!

I read a lot of bad reviews on this item, but for $20 I went ahead and took a chance. I’ve read where it won’t turn on or won’t turn off after installation. I suspect it’s wired in wrong. Yours burned up? Probably trying to drive too much speaker. I don’t know. I wasn’t there. But this unit is working fine for my application which was not installing it in a car. I have put together a pretty nice back yard with lots of greenery, lighting and water features and I wanted to add some sound to play creature sound effects like crickets and frogs as well as music. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money and I already had speakers. I bought this unit as well as a step down transformer adapter, (total cost under $30). I did buy 250 feet of heavy duty speaker wire which cost more than the radio and the adapter combined. Worth it. I cut the cigar lighter end off of the adapter and wired it directly to the adapter plug provided with the radio. I then wired the speakers around my property to the provided adapter plug to the radio. The setup worked flawlessly. In the evening, I now sit in front of a waterfall with a cold beer in my hand, a fire in the pit and listening to sound effects and music coming from the bushes. The unit itself pretty much does everything I need. I didn’t want or need a CD player or Bluetooth so I was good there. It played effects and music flawlessly from both the USB and the SD slots. I could repeat one track or all of them. The unit will play both MP3 and WMA files. Although the documentation doesn’t mention it, it will also play WAV files as long as they are only two channel. The unit gets slightly (barely) warm, but that is expected of any electronic device. I did experiment hooking up a sub woofer, but quickly disconnected it as the radio couldn’t drive it and started heating up pretty good. Trying to drive that thing was going to burn the radio up. An amplifier would be needed to add the woofer. I have no comment on the radio function as I don’t use it and didn’t even hook up an antenna. The unit has basic fade, base and treble controls or an equalizer with three or four options. I’ve been in the middle of a track on the SD card and switched over to the USB. When I switched back to the SD card it picked up right where it left off. Fast forward seems to move ahead about 15 seconds for every second you hold the button down. I did have my only issue when trying to fast reverse. Sometimes it seemed to work okay, but other times it didn’t seem to want to work. It may have been issues with whatever MP3 file I was trying to speed through that had the problem although they all played fine. I’m not worried about it as I really don’t use the function much. Some people have said certain functions or the entire unit fails in months, weeks or even days. I guess I’ll wait and see. It would be nice, as others have said, to have just the clock stay on the screen while playing music, but that’s not the case. All the information from your tracks keeps scrolling across the screen. Maybe there’s a way to do it, but if not it’s no big deal. I didn’t buy it for the clock. I haven’t even bothered to set the time. So far I’m very happy with my results.

I got a Honda accord 2000 and it’s basically my A to B car. Bluetooth works great. (They can’t hear your voice when your speaking on the phone) . Easy switch from radio to AUX to BT all you gotta do is click the corner button. It’s not that bright in the dark, I give it like 45% bright blue but it’s a cool type of blue. Also for the money it’s exactly what you are looking for because it’s not that fancy. It auto connects to my iPhone 13 so I have no problem with that. Quality of it is okay cause it’s just hard plastic but actually installing it is the problem. You just need to match each wire to each respected color wire( basically twist each metal part wire together. The metal part is in the wire itself your gonna need to cut) That’s the best advice I could give you tbh. Anyways radio is good, sounds great, you can even save radio station as favorites. Not bad purchase it’s the installing is the tough part so do it with someone who knows about old school car wiring 👍

Before going too far with this review, I think it's important to keep in mind that this is a cheap car MP3 player. Hold onto that thought, and adjust your expectations accordingly. If installed correctly, it'll work just fine as a radio; it picks up every local radio station that my old unit did, and the buttons are easy to program. The USB and memory card readers are easy to use, and in no time you'll have your music library at your fingertips. The sound presets will most likely be fine for stock speakers, making this an easy drop-in replacement if your old radio took a nose-dive. If you're like me and only use optical media for your vehicle (nothing else in the house except for my computer uses discs anymore), you'll like not having CDs scattered all over the place. It really is nice! That said, accessing a specific album or song from your memory card is going to take a lot of scrolling. While it does recognize MP3 tags and will display whatever's playing, it won't give you the full title information. Keep this in mind if you're a diverse music listener and have plans of putting everything you own on one card to have with you--you're going to have fun finding something that matches your mood while also fighting through traffic. You're best off creating mixes tailored to whatever you're doing and the company you'll be keeping: a Sinatra fan most likely won't enjoy listening to you scrolling through your Metallica and Testament collection as you stab around looking for some swing. Since memory cards are erasable and you can transfer music to your heart's content without buying new media, adjust your expectations accordingly and plan ahead. I have run into the occasional issue of files not playing correctly and distorting, only to play through just fine if I repeat that specific track. I'm hesitant to blame this stereo, since it could be a quirk with the media I'm using. It does sound like a buffering issue, so I bring it up in all fairness to those who may encounter it. Having said that, it is a rare thing to have to deal with, and I doubt it'll send many people into a rage if they experience the same thing. It's a cheap stereo. It's also a decent purchase for the money invested. If that's all you're looking for and everything I said above doesn't bother you, you'll likely be satisfied with your purchase. I am.

Worked for a month before it began glitching. Now it won't even turn off. It bounces around from source to source. It turns itself up and down. If you turn it off, it turns itself back on. It turns the treble and bass up and down. I owned the non-updated version of this boss radio (with an actual CD player) since 2011. I threw it away to "upgrade," and it has been the worst purchase I have ever made on Amazon.

Installation was easy and the sound quality is impressive for the price.