Review: Audiovox SIR-PNP2
I received this unit at no cost when I signed up for a year’s worth of service from Sirius Satellite Radio (it was a special, limited-time offer that I don’t think is available any longer). I wasn’t expecting much, as they were giving these and the car or home unit docking station away… I figured, this must be the low-end of the satellite receiver spectrum.
Well, compared to an ordinary radio, the Audiovox SIR-PNP2 is already a step above. As with all the satellite radios, it scrolls the name of the current song and band, and in some cases, the year of the song. The display is bright and easy to read, and you have a choice of multiple font styles (but no choice of colors or sizes — the unit will auto-size fonts based upon the amount of information it has to display. Short names get large fonts, long names get smaller ones.)
I find the ergonomics of this unit passable, but not spectacular. The display can be washed out in very bright sunlight (but reads admirably well in 95% of conditions). The 10 preset station buttons are all tactically the same, meaning it’s difficult to switch channels by touch alone. This is somewhat important in a car radio, since every time you take your eyes off the road, you’re risking a potential accident. The jog dial is useless for navigating anything other than a station or two away from where you are. Given the hundreds of stations to choose from, that’s sometimes unfortunate (you have to use the categories button to make large leaps between stations).
The other useless item is the remote. While a remote could be potentially useful for a car radio, this one is missing just about everything that would make a remote of this nature helpful to the driver. I tried using it once, got frustrated by the lack of the button I would expect on a remote (and of course, the buttons are all chicklet size and have no tactile differentiation again). It’s been sitting in the glove box ever since.
Via the car dock (sold separately), this unit can transmit wirelessly to your car’s receiver on one of 4 different FM frequencies (it has a tiny FM transmitter in the car dock). This works flawlessly, and one of the stations is bound to be clear in your area. In metro Boston, I set it to a single frequency and haven’t had to change it since (even with rides around greater New England).
I was pleasantly surprised by the sound produced by the unit. Drop-outs are minimal (going slowly under a bridge, for instance, will always result in a drop-out). When music is playing, most will not really be able to tell the difference between this and a regular FM radio or CD. Only when announcers come on do you notice the quality difference.
All in all, I think this is a solid satellite radio unit to purchase. If you can get your hands on one of these units at a steep discount or for free, I think it’s a no-brainer to do so and take the satellite car radio plunge. I think you’ll find that once you have the choices and commercial-free stations that satellite offers you, you’ll find yourself rarely listening to terestrial radio again.
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