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<blockquote data-quote="Sarthos" data-source="post: 5975774" data-attributes="member: 610335">What I was most interested in is the HD radio, partially because any stereo specific tuner is like 100 bucks or more anyway, and there aren&#039;t many units with HD built in. And then if you look at a brand like Alpine everything has to be added on after you buy the stereo for like 200 bucks each for HD, bluetooth, satellite, and then you&#039;re stuck using that brand of stereo if you want to keep the features.Even spending like 600 plus on a pioneer stereo, you only get bluetooth and I think there might be some kind of crossover although not a fully adjustable active one to run mids and tweets on separate channels. Amps have simple crossovers like that built in, so if you have a 4 channel amp the built in crossovers on stereos are mostly useless.Anyway, most interested in one unit I found, a VR3 VRHDUA100. Supposedly it works with all existing stereos but I have simply no idea how it works. I found a review on it here<a href="http://www.hdradioreview.com/html/vr3_vrhdua100_hd_radio_adapter.html" target="_blank">http://www.hdradioreview.com/html/vr3_vrhdua100_hd_radio_adapter.html</a>But this makes it sound more like an actual stereo than a receiver. Anyone heard of this before and know if it works?I also did find there are a lot of basic bluetooth devices that have a universal stereo mute, and if they have a headphone output they could easily be used on most aftermarket car stereos with the aux input (or even factory units with a cassette converter) We should have a list, there must be hundreds of little things like this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sarthos, post: 5975774, member: 610335"] What I was most interested in is the HD radio, partially because any stereo specific tuner is like 100 bucks or more anyway, and there aren't many units with HD built in. And then if you look at a brand like Alpine everything has to be added on after you buy the stereo for like 200 bucks each for HD, bluetooth, satellite, and then you're stuck using that brand of stereo if you want to keep the features. Even spending like 600 plus on a pioneer stereo, you only get bluetooth and I think there might be some kind of crossover although not a fully adjustable active one to run mids and tweets on separate channels. Amps have simple crossovers like that built in, so if you have a 4 channel amp the built in crossovers on stereos are mostly useless. Anyway, most interested in one unit I found, a VR3 VRHDUA100. Supposedly it works with all existing stereos but I have simply no idea how it works. I found a review on it here [URL="http://www.hdradioreview.com/html/vr3_vrhdua100_hd_radio_adapter.html"]http://www.hdradioreview.com/html/vr3_vrhdua100_hd_radio_adapter.html[/URL] But this makes it sound more like an actual stereo than a receiver. Anyone heard of this before and know if it works? I also did find there are a lot of basic bluetooth devices that have a universal stereo mute, and if they have a headphone output they could easily be used on most aftermarket car stereos with the aux input (or even factory units with a cassette converter) We should have a list, there must be hundreds of little things like this. [/QUOTE]

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