Hey, just wondering if anyone has put in Pioneer's new top of the line DD unit. I'm looking to do either the Z110, or Kenwood's 9140. The Pioneer looks very slick from some of the videos, but there are no reviews yet.

 

I'm interested too. I bought the dd kit but still haven't decided on a headunit. Pioneer seems to offer better prices but i hear a lot of complaints about the execution of the features. I cant decide.

 

What complaints have you heard?

 

Complaints on the F-series (and the re-named and minor hardware change for better iPod compatibility X series) are:

Boot time (~17sec to audio, 1min to map, 2min to bluetooth connection).
Crashes (especially if you try doing stuff during that 2min boot time).
Mutes audio instead of pausing if possible, during phone calls or voice navigation.
Poor responsiveness (better with upcoming 3.0 update).

So just generally buggy, but you learn to work around it, and for the price, the F90BT I bought was well worth it.

The video of the Z110 looks much faster and generally better, and if the firmware wasn't outsourced to the losers who wrote the Windows CE, it could be awesome.

 

I've heard people on the Pioneer Avic 411 forum say the Z110 is a big step up from the last F-series.