Pioneer AVH-X3700BHS in-Dash DVD Receiver with 6.2" Display, Bluetooth, SiriusXM-Ready, HD Radio

I needed to replace an outdated radio/cd in my 2004 Suburban. I used another website to narrow down what would and wouldn't fit, and using a scoshe bracket, installed this in about an hour. Very straightforward and easy install, albeit the hardest part was getting all the wires to fit behind the radio in the dash. I did it in the middle of an artic Michigan winter, so I did the wiring portion of the connections inside. You have to connect several wires together on the wiring harness, so if you're not comfortable doing that, you'll need an installer. I'm planning on fine tuning the fit into the dash this spring. The 3 main criteria for a new radio for me were:1) the brightness of the display at night. I commute from work after dark in the winter months, and cannot stand bright lights coming from the dash. A previous model year pioneer avh-2600 was way too bright, but this new model has options to change the display to a dark, subdued level. I'm happy with its brightness, and as I said before, I'm picky about this.2) streaming music from a USB drive. I wanted to dump my previous source of music: SiriusXM. Nothing against it, just I found more often than not it wasn't playing a song I liked, plus it cost $15 or so per month. I absolutely love the USB function of this radio. I loaded 300 or so of my favorite classic rock on a micro USB drive, and it plays them flawlessly. I set it on random, and it remembers where it left off. Exactly what I was looking for.This spring I will route the long USB cord that hooks to the radio in the back to the cigarette lighter hole, using an adapter found on Amazon. I don't smoke so this is wasted space (until now)3) connecting via Bluetooth to my phone. I wanted to take calls without fishing my phone out of my pocket and holding it to my ear while driving. So far this radio pairs perfectly with my iPhone 5s, mutes the music, then puts the call through the speakers with amazing clarity. The radio display has all the buttons come on automatically when a call comes in, allowing easy manipulation of the call. Again, exactly what I was looking forA previous reviewer complained of the " incredibly loud beep" when you adjust the volume or use the function buttons, saying its loud and shrill. I have to say honestly I have no idea what he's talking about. When someone says incredibly loud and shrill, that conjures up comparisons to some kind of alarm going off, and my radio simply does not do that. In fact, when I'm listening to music at normal volumes, and say, adjust the volume up or down, I cannot hear the beep. Kinda like hitting a button on your microwave, only about half as loud. Certainly not even close to being an issue with me.I've only preliminarily tried the HD radio and the Pandora function to assure they're working properly, which they do. But my main source of music is the USB.In summation, this radio completely fits the bill for what I wanted it to do, without any annoying quirks. I will update with some pics of the completed install shortly. Good luck with your project !

[Edit: After two units died within six months, lowering my score.. again]A strong "AVOID THIS RADIO" review. Too many issues, very bad design, high level of failure.After reviewing many models of radio, I ended up on the AVH X3700. It's a solid unit that allowed three stored BlueTooth profiles, dual cameras, and other necessary features.Many others have covered the basics in depth, let's talk about the oddities. And, also the fact that purchasing this item from Amazon will void it's warranty (see end).Within 30 seconds of installing the head unit, I hated it and wanted to return it. Every button press emitted a horrendous BEEP. This same issue was seen here by others. I went to a local audio install shop to ask and they noted what others had: it's an incompatibility with factory-amplified stereos.My Hyundai Santa Fe has the Monsoon upgraded system with a factory amplifier. The signal leaving the head unit was amplified twice before the speakers. Once I had them fix the issue (disconnect speaker wires from harness and wire them in using RCA adapters to pre-amp outputs) it was nice and quiet.The Display button is useless and a user interface nightmare. There's never a need to ever push it. But, what I would LOVE, is a Mute or Play/Pause button where Display is. Instead, you have to reach to bottom left of screen to pause, but only if you had not previously lowered the volume. If you lowered, you'd have to wait a few seconds for the volume bar to time out and then be able to pause.Adding the optional CD-SR100 remote control makes working the stereo much easier. However, it also creates a whole new set of issues. There are buttons on the remote that put the stereo into undocumented modes that are confusing. Pressing down while in USB can force it into subdirectories, but then you may end up looping a subdirectory endlessly. There is no smart shuffle. If you filter to a genre, or artist, or album, and press shuffle, it will not keep shuffle to within your selection. It will instead shuffle everything. Sometimes. Sometimes if you do it by the remote it will keep it to your selection. By pressing various buttons it'll work sometimes. Really I just want to shuffle between 400 MP3s of one genre, not mix rock, folk, classical, and EDM after each other. Instead I have to hear it go through a folder of MP3s in alphabetical order, one subdirectory at a time. You either get alphabetical of one genre or you get shuffle of all.But let's talk about the elephant in the room. If you purchase this radio from Amazon, and it dies, you lose your warranty. My head unit died 100 days after installing. It would intermittently lose power and then failed to turn on completely. The installer knew immediately what the issue was and tried a firmware flash, and various changes. I called Pioneer and they had me ship it to a local repair facility. The repair facility noted it was purchased from Amazon and refused to do the work. Pioneer wouldn't cover the warranty unless it was purchased from an authorized dealer. Pioneer maintains this list ([...]) and also a list of dealers where the warranty is _immediately voided_ if purchased from, including Amazon. My Amazon purchase was through a third party who was also on this _immediately voided_ list.Amazon wouldn't take the radio back, Pioneer wouldn't take it back, and the repair shop wouldn't touch it. I was suddenly out a large sum of money over a defective head unit. I spoke with Amazon, pointed out the disparity of selling as with a warranty, but having that warranty voided, and was able to get a refund.All said, I went to my local installer to buy a replacement. It was an extra $70 but now I have a warranty. And because of the cost difference I downgraded to the AVH-X2700BHS. It's an identical radio but without HD Radio.Edit: The new radio started acting up within three months and, from what my installer told me, is a common issue among X2700 and X3700 units. When playing from USB the device suddenly started skipping, starting tracks at 30s in, warbling audio, and the background started animating in a whole new style we've never seen before. Radio and Disk worked fine, just USB was broken, even after switching out to new thumb drives and recreating databases. We had to schedule an appointment with the installer for them to reset the radio (with a small pen tip), which fixed the issue. We were also told by the installer that it was a common issue, that they do resets on a very regular basis.