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Originally Posted by Schumi View Post
I think the becker radios are, stylistically, very nice looking radios. Whenever someone puts an Alpine or Denon deck in one of these cars it looks absolutely horrible, with silver and chrome and logos and colored lights and whatnot. The orange LCD'd becker radios just look the part, and don't sound too bad either.

But yes, the interface sucks- mine skips multiple stations or cd tracks at a time as well.
Yes, I agree completely. They fit the part, but are some of the most annoying radios ever produced. I'm not sure who designed the one in the 5-Series (E39), but that radio interface is really good (it takes about 20 minutes to get used to it).

-Wayne
Old 04-01-2011, 10:08 PM
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