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I installed this in my BMW and it works great. I had a Best Buy install it for me for $50 and I love it. The only thing that I do not like about this is it does not display the song name and title like the window mount receivers do. Other than that, buy this item with confidence.
Anyway, we installed it in seconds and it works perfectly. Unfortunately I had to buy a new one of these since I had the old-school one with dual inputs rather than the single. My antenna broke and so the new antennas only have the singe input and the splitter adaptor never would work. Best price I found on the web other than [.]. which was reasonable.
Nothing changed on my end, so it must have been something that Sirsus did with the repeaters. The SIR-KEN1 is not manufactured by Sirius or Kenwood. The display will flash a bunch of station names other than the one that you are on. Sirius points the finger at Kenwood. The most important part of the tuner is the music and it works as advertised. There is an annoying glitch with the text display. Revised.Not sure what happened, but for the last two weeks the screen seems to work as advertised. Directed Electronics points the finger at Sirius.
A simple software update should fix this issue. Directed Electronics makes them. Do a search for SIR-KEN1 + waiting to find out more.Again, the unit works for music. All three text lines generally flash "WAITING." The issue has something to do with terrestrial repeaters in metro areas used to combat obstacles like tall buildings. I'm changing my rating from 3 to 4.Old review.I bought the SIR-KEN1 6 months ago to compliment my new stereo. Kenwood points the finger at Directed Electronics.
Also artist and song texts do not show. When you leave the metro areas, the text works properly.Apparently this is a common issue with the SIR-KEN1. I think Directed Electronics owns this flaw, since the stereo and the sound part of satellite radio work flawlessly. If you want to know what you are listening to then you will be disappointed.
I took out the head unit, plugged in the control cable, plugged the other end into the satellite reciever, plugged in the antenna, signed up for the service online, and less than a minute later we had satellite radio. I bought my wife a Kenwood car stereo last fall, one that is Sirius ready. I was impressed because I didn't have to splice in a wiring harness, and everything is hidden from view. I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but recently the radio stations in our area have become so overloaded with commercials and less-than-stellar programming content, so we looked into getting satellite radio. We had some gift cards lying around, went to BestBuy (same price as here) and bought one.The hardest part was routing the antenna cable--I wanted to mount it on the roof but the cable would not fit inside the rear window molding easily (per the instructions) so I put it on the trunk and ran the cable to the glovebox via the interior molding (very easy to do on a Hyundai Elantra). If she parks in an unsafe area, all she has to do is put the little antenna (which sticks via strong magnets and adhesive strips) in the trunk and unplug the unit and take it with her. Simple.I'm going out to buy one for my car tomorrow.
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