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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 2697186" data-attributes="member: 561023">My distaste for Blau HUs stems from having purchased one of their units (at the recommendation of a salesman back in the early days of my aftermarket car audio enthusiasm) and three units in a row frying themselves due to a faulty circuit. It was an SQR-49 Boston, specifically, and the code protection feature managed to fry the whole unit three times in a row. The first one lasted me about 3 months....got it replaced under warranty and that second unit lasted maybe 3 weeks. The 3rd, and last one, lasted less than 4 days before it did the exact same thing as the first two. After that I went back to where it was purchased and told them I refused to even consider getting anything that had the Blaupunkt name printed on it. That&#039;s when I got my first-ever Kenwood HU and I&#039;ve used nothing else for a HU in my personal ride since.Mind you, this was back in the days when dual-shaft units were all that was available (nobody has seen a single-DIN headunit at this point because they didn&#039;t exist) and I&#039;m pretty certain that Blau has likely improved their quality control by now ~ at least one would hope so...but my horrendous experience with them leads me to neither recommend nor be willing to purchase one of their HUs ever again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 2697186, member: 561023"] My distaste for Blau HUs stems from having purchased one of their units (at the recommendation of a salesman back in the early days of my aftermarket car audio enthusiasm) and three units in a row frying themselves due to a faulty circuit. It was an SQR-49 Boston, specifically, and the code protection feature managed to fry the whole unit three times in a row. The first one lasted me about 3 months....got it replaced under warranty and that second unit lasted maybe 3 weeks. The 3rd, and last one, lasted less than 4 days before it did the exact same thing as the first two. After that I went back to where it was purchased and told them I refused to even consider getting anything that had the Blaupunkt name printed on it. That's when I got my first-ever Kenwood HU and I've used nothing else for a HU in my personal ride since. Mind you, this was back in the days when dual-shaft units were all that was available (nobody has seen a single-DIN headunit at this point because they didn't exist) and I'm pretty certain that Blau has likely improved their quality control by now ~ at least one would hope so...but my horrendous experience with them leads me to neither recommend nor be willing to purchase one of their HUs ever again. [/QUOTE]

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