JENSEN MPR210 7 Character LCD Single DIN Automotive Stereo Radio | Push to Speak Assistant | Bluetooth Arms Free Calling & Music Streaming | AM/FM Radio | USB Playback & Charging | Not a CD

Great cheap unit
Needed something for my winter beater. I have a cheap Belva in my pickup and this sounds better. I’m used to Pioneer touchscreens with multiple band eq, so the basic bass and treble worked ok on this. Using it for a phone call was sounded great on both ends – the Belva is unusable for calls. Would have been nice if it had another set of outputs, but for the price I can’t complain.

Great value upgrade for older cars,
Does everything it says on the box. Straightforward, no frills stereo. FM reception is excellent with the factory antenna, BT pairs instantly every time. It defaults to the last mode (radio, bt, or USB) when powered on, so it picks up right where you left off. Sounds quality is great for the price, much better than the old factory radio in an 2nd gen Ram with 4 basic speakers. Goes plenty loud and the volume has good spacing steps. Surprised how many car stereos I’ve used that get basic details like that wrong or have buggy BT connections.Controls are straightforward and intuitive to use. The manual really isn’t needed. You can pick 4 preset EQ (the usual “rock”, “pop”, ect),or manually set basic bass/treble. Basic, but all you can expect at this price, and honestly all most people need.It does have a subwoofer output, which I do have wired to a small 8″ self powered mini sub (plenty for a single cab truck). The one downside is the sub output level is NOT adjustable. Even some other basic head units usually let you do that, not here. The signal is quite “hot”. I ended up turning the gain on my sub almost all the way down to get a decent balance and not have bass totally blowing out the sound.The other con is despite having an alphanumeric display, it doesn’t show title/artist info over Bluetooth. It just shows a static ” BTMUSIC” at all times. You can switch it to the clock, but that annoyingly doesn’t “stick” between ignition cycles.Another mile annoyance,but once that seems very common in virtually every car stereos I’ve tried,is BT volume is way lower than anything else. Radio,a comfortable level is maybe 10-12 on the volume. Switch to BT, phone volume maxed, and you can’t even hear the music at all at that level. You have to turn it up to 20-25, and more like 30 for spoken word podcasts to hear clearly. But then switch back to radio, or at the next key on, it blows your ears out since it comes back on at the last volume setting.You get basic play/pause, forward, and back controls for BT, and folder/file jumps for playing off USB.The display is also not dimmable, but I don’t find it annoyingly bright at night.It has a built in mic for BT phone calls,which I expected to be terrible, but really wasn’t as bad as I’d thought. Saves a step of routine a remote mic wire clipped to the visor, and sure it shaved a couple bucks off the price. It doesn’t sound great, a bit noisy, like talking on speakerphone outdoors, but the person on the other end said they could understand me well enough.It does support the Jensen companion app, but this is totally not needed,and really doesn’t add much. You can more or less just use your phone as a “remote”, which given you presumably are sitting within arms reach of it at all times, seems rather pointless. I guess if it was on a boat or RV or something that might be useful? Although music over BT you can of course just control from your phone, it acts effectively just like any Bluetooth speaker or headphones.For $30 (and I got it on sale for under $20), kind of hard to complain. It’s bare bones, but does what it says and almost certainly sounds better than a 20 or more year old factory radio.

I bought this to replace the deck in my camping trailer. I had to make a cover for the huge hole in the cabinet that the original deck had, but other than that installation was straightforward as far as decks go. I wasn’t looking for great sound, it’s just for some music while camping, but it’s clear and not tinny. It has USB, which is what we wanted, much more useful than CDs now a days. The operation is simple, didn’t need to look at the manual. Never used or needed the Bluetooth, I guess I could make and take calls hands free while in my trailer. There is an app you can download to control the deck, my Android phone works perfectly with it. No setup required, just open the app and do what you want. You can control everything with the app, even turn it off or on from outside the trailer. I consider this and excellent value for my needs.

Picked up a 2002 chevy avalanche in really good shape but the stereo had no interface for my phone. This unit solves this problem very economically. Definitely helpful to get the recommended wiring harness and single din mounting bracket. Great Bluetooth functionality. Once paired, connects automatically when I start the truck. USB allows for my phone to be conveniently charged while using. Output is definitely good enough for the stock amp and speakers to create decent sound. Had challenges because the stock amp in the truck has a separate wiring harness that provides power to the speakers but has no obvious way to connect to the unit. Not the fault of the head unit. Found a YouTube video to solve this. Needed to splice one wire from the amp wiring harness to a spare wire from the recommended aftermarket harness because the path to the speakers goes through the hidden stock amp.

Worked ok for 6 months but now power cuts in and out, audio randomly drops out. Appears to be due to harness connector on back of unit. Maybe dry or bad solder to board…