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Hmmm. The specifications only say Golf 6...Originally Posted by Fatherless One
MY08 Mk5 GT Sport - sold
MY14 Tiguan 118TSI - sold (Mazda3 SP25GT in its place)
MY16 Golf 7R: sold (Caterham Super 7 and Hyundai i30N in its place)
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It's basically a generic chinese unit with a skinned OS. So you get the downsides of the chinese units (terribad radio reception, fairly average OS, often chinglish menus, WinCE etc). Good thing is the latest gen of Eonon units are ok for the price. They're pretty fast, cheap, etc etc. Cheap and plasticy build quality though. I wouldn't say it's an alternative to the DNS, more a placeholder :p
But hopefully it won't come to that. Any updates Sandy?
MY10 Golf Mk6 103TDI DSG Candy White | Revo Stage 1 ECU Tune | 18" Talladegas | GTI Front/Rear/Exhaust | R LED Taillights | GTI Steering Wheel | VW Discover Media | Focal IFVW Front Speakers | Mk7 Climatronic Panel |
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Most people seem happy with its performance (speed), price is good too. The only thing real concern may be radio reception.
I'm getting concerned that Audiosources may deliver a bug filled unit and few to no future updates/bug fixes.
I'll try to contact them about mk5 compatibility.
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it might soon be time to a collaboration list of alternative radios that might compare to the DNS, as thr light at the end of the tunnel is dimming so it seems
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So are we cancelling the group buy or what?
I am for cancelling it if they don't meet tonight's deadline.
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That seems reasonable to me. I am just finalising my alternative plans and finances and unless something happens here in the next 48hrs, I will be asking for a refund, especially as I have an A/C compressor replacement booked in for Wednesday!
MY08 Mk5 GT Sport - sold
MY14 Tiguan 118TSI - sold (Mazda3 SP25GT in its place)
MY16 Golf 7R: sold (Caterham Super 7 and Hyundai i30N in its place)
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As someone pointed out, this doesn't bode very well for Audiosources considering there are several other forums and people all over the world keeping an eye out on this thread to see how the DNS's go.
Hopefully we get a solution (and update from Sandy) soon.
Here's my post from earlier:
As far as i'm concerned, the Eonon/Dynavin units are not really alternatives to the DNS, more like stop-gap solutions until Audiosources sorts their **** out.
The Zenec unit is simply far too expensive (it'd need to be sub $1k to be worth it, more like $800 or less).
OEM is probably the next best alternative. If worst comes to worst and the GB is cancelled, maybe we can try and swing a discount on the RNS from someone like JKU (he's on the forums, Brisbane-based)?
We'll have to wait for Sandy to update. Understandable, he seems quite busy at the moment, probably wedding planning etc :p
I bloody hope not though.
MY10 Golf Mk6 103TDI DSG Candy White | Revo Stage 1 ECU Tune | 18" Talladegas | GTI Front/Rear/Exhaust | R LED Taillights | GTI Steering Wheel | VW Discover Media | Focal IFVW Front Speakers | Mk7 Climatronic Panel |
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I sent them a email asking about mk5 compatibility yesterday, I haven't received a reply as yet. I'm very new to this scene, how different is the headunit wiring between the Mk5 and the Mk6?
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So it's been a rather dramatic weekend, Michael from Audiosources who handled all my sales was fired yesterday - I won't go too much into the details but they did get someone else onto me pretty quickly, and 10 units are coming to me today. The 4 units before did ship and I have tracking which I will send to the 4 customers tonight.
Basically this means I will need to send what I have to the 10 earliest members of the group buy while the rest won't get theirs shipped out until I return on December 4th. I will work through who the first 10 will be and let everyone know - in the circumstances I will allow those who are not part of the first 10 to get a refund if they wish to.
If anyone does want to look for an alternative, I would go with RNS-510 / Dynavin / Zenec / Eonon in that order. For <$400 you simply cannot expect a decent long lasting unit. If anyone has tried an $80 Chinese tablet you would understand what I mean. You might get lucky and still have a functional unit after a year or so, but it's just as likely, or probably more likely, that you wouldn't. Plus if you're worried the DNS would have bugs, forget about the Eonon... In that review video it doesn't even play the song you select in SD mode
My thought right now is that I don't want to cancel the group buy because I have a feeling if I did, the unit will be released in about a month, and I'll probably end up having to start another group buy. Given the history of the delay now though I think most people understand what they are to expect from Audiosources - they do support their units and they do take quality seriously (otherwise the unit would not have been so delayed), but they are not good with sticking to deadlines. With this in mind those willing to continue waiting are welcome to stay in the group buy, otherwise I am happy to provide a full refund. The second half of the initial batch should be with me by the time I return on December 4th. For the official release they are supposedly to be ready by year's end but given the history I fully expect January next year to be a possibility.
And yes, I did have to do lots of wedding planning and running around looking at venues so I haven't been able to give daily updates, thanks for those who remember and understandSome days though Audiosources simply does not have updates for me anyway.
Last edited by DkN; 16-11-2013 at 06:02 PM.
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