Having searched and concluded that I can't get the car stereo that I want ( short body/mechless/bluetooth/green display) I thought about getting one of these. There are some compromises but the the retro look is worth the sacrifice. Does anyone else have one of these?
Good but Bremen dab is awesome. Expensive but it looks amazing. Look out for it on offer. I got one and I don’t regret it even if the build quality is not a shadow of what Blaupunkt used to be. Blaupunkt Frankfurt looks good too, if perhaps more 90’s than 80’s
I have a San Francisco 320 from the same product range, cheap on that online auction site. Performance is OK, about average, no more than that. It has lots of features, front and back USB, front 3.5mm jack input, front and rear pre-outs. The big problem with it is that the display is very dim. It's fine in the dark but on anything other than a gloomy day you cannot read the display without shielding it from the light with your hands and peering closely at the screen. To me that's a big drawback. You'd be best checking how it is daylight or bright light yourself if you value reading the display! Oh, and bear in mind that Blaupunkt (part of Robert Bosch) was sold in 2009, went bankrupt in 2015 and the name was bought by a company in Luxembourg. The once respected company has gone the same way as Grundig, Lucas and many others whose name is all that now remains as a ghost of the former company. Those "Blaupunkt" radios are made in China and have paid for the right to use the Blaupunkt name. I suspect an electric toothbrush manufacture could negotiate the rights to use the name too if they so wished. ...just so you know!
Yep the Bremen is the proverbial dog's gonads but the price is pretty alarming - hard to believe the kind of money that older genuine Blaupunkt's are commanding now.
It's fitted and I'm pretty pleased with it. There seems to be a background noise on the radio but I mostly listen to stuff from my phone so it's not too much of a problem. The phone book is a bit clunky to sort through if you want to make a call and I cannot turn off the annoying beep but for £100 I've got hands free, wireless audio streaming and it looks good in the dash.
I'm away at the moment but I'll do it when I return. Sadly the radio is in better condition than the dash trim around it. It has a few scratches from years of radio removals and refits.
I thought the pricing had reached warp factor 8 with the new Bremen but no we're still climbing.... Blaupunkt Frankfurt RCM 82 DAB | Retro Car Stereo OEM Look | Mercedes Classic Car Stereo (carelectronicsnottingham.co.uk)