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Sony MEX-N5300BT Car Stereo Single Din Radio with Bluetooth, CD Player, USB/AUX
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Reviews & Ratings
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Movieskinny
09-08-2025I got this Sony to replace my dead CD player in my Toyota Sienna XLE, that had a hidden JBL system in it. Sounds great and had Best Buy put it in. He said they wished BB sold that model because it has every hookup in the rear of the deck for connecting everything. The remote control is not great, and has very tiny printing that requires squinting while driving??!! The menu on the deck is also not easy to see while driving. The bomb is the app on the phone. The phone app controls everything perfectly for the Sony unit. Easy peesy. The EQ settings would take an hour to do on the deck, or 2 seconds on the phone app. Besides the not so great menu options, my other peeve is the changing of inputs or sources. NOW, I may be doing something wrong, but you hit source for say CD or tuner, and the item flashes and does not activate. Sometimes hitting the source button again while something is flashing will get it to activate. I have deactivated the CD just to get the tuner ON. Like I said, there are too many functions being handled by one button, and I may be doing something wrong. I have been doing sound systems for decades and I still get stumped from time to time.Bottomline, this Sony system was a mere $130 and has many other features too. The Bluetooth is VERY GOOD, and grabs my phone calls with zero effort. Music by BT is also incredibly good sounding. I tested the AUX front input with a Sports WAlkman cassette player, yep, sounded awesome. USB tunes with a thumb drive, yep, sounded awesome too. One thing I found out, the Sony 5300 doesn't do WMA lossless, and only lesser versions of killabit recordings. MP3s at 320kbs sounded great too. I think the only lossless it plays is iTunes FLAC. I don't have any of that. Unit has Pandora, iHeart, and Sirius XM radio too. The installer said that my old radio was probably better, NOT, Sony has always put great tuners in their gear, and this radio is much better than the OEM stock radio in my Toyota Sienna. Music stations sound super too. It gobbles up way more channels, and on the app, was easy to program multi channels. Comes with a microphone for handsfree phoning, and shocked me when I got my first phone call, and I didn't need to setup anything!!!! There are things to learn, and I will try to update the things here that kinda sounded negative, because I may not be doing something correctly. I haven't played with this at all, but the unit has a ridiculous amount of colors to program for the LED lights on the dash. N5300BT is a great buy for the money.
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Sam
09-08-2025I bought this to replace an inexpensive BOSS stereo that I purchased/installed a few months ago. My original goal with the BOSS stereo was to replace my factory system from 2001 with something much newer that supported Bluetooth so I could stream Spotify from my phone. While I was technically successful in getting a Bluetooth connection, the terrible audio quality and user interface of the BOSS made the thing unbearable.After enduring that thing for the past few months, it was imperative that I replace it. There were too many issues to go into detail here so I will spare you but I will say that the audio quality was so bad that it was literally painful to listen to for more than a few minutes at a time.Replacing the BOSS system with this Sony product underscores why you should probably spend more than $25 on a car stereo. I decided on this product after researching several other alternatives and I am exceedingly pleased that I selected this system.The audio quality alone is enough to justify this purchase. I don't have an amp or sub-woofer or any of that fanciness but the premium factory speakers I have sound great with this stereo. There are a bunch of equalizer presets you can try out depending on the type of music you prefer to enjoy. If you like, you can even customize your own equalizer settings.The interface on this thing is super intuitive. It's hierarchical so sub-settings are nested in a way that just makes sense. There is even an option to auto-set the time based on data embedded in your FM signal. Bluetooth hookup was quick and painless. You can customize the color of both the display and the buttons independently. This gives you a range of color schemes from a sterile, operating room white, to full on disco party with colors fading into each other.The installation was easy enough if you're comfortable with that sort of thing. The wire for the included microphone is longer than I needed (or I imagine anyone would actually need) so just I twist-tied the excess and tucked it behind the stereo. Be sure to purchase an adapter for the wiring specific to your vehicle. You will need a soldering iron (and related accessories) to connect the adapter to the stereo plug unless you're having someone install it for you.
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Ricardo A. Contreras
09-08-2025Purchased this to upgrade my old head unit a Sony Dsx-s100.Install was fairly simple and straight forwardOnce it was installed I took less than 5 minutes to connect my phone without reading the manual and automatically made a test phone call, person on the other end said voice was clear and no echo from the provided microphone even as I turned the volume up.Music play back is seemless and extremely responsive.USB connection to phone to charge while driving immediate connection to music and play through speakersMultiple color options and good brightnessThe size is a single dinPerformance is amazing so far as it’s only been installed in vehicle for 48 hours.Bluetooth connectivity is smooth and is getting better takes about 10 seconds to connect after starting vehicle which is not horrible.Unit has several features I’m not in need of but still good to have options.
Technical Specifications
About this item Bluetooth Hands-Free Calling and Audio Streaming. Stay safe and obey local hands-free laws with built-in Bluetooth (HFP). From hands-free calling, wireless audio streaming (A2DP) with artist, album, and song search, simple pairing, and control audio (AVRCP SiriusXM-Ready. Your Favorite Stations Wherever You Go, Wherever You Are. You can get over 140 channels, including commercial-free music plus the best sports and live events, comedy, news, exclusive talk and entertainment. SiriusXM programming is received CD Player AM/FM Radio With RDS - The Radio Data System (RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts.
