[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Accessories] BennTech:
Please read my full review

Hey, Dan, I'm glad you had a good experience. I'm sorry if my review sounds biased against the MK6000, but for the expensive price, I expected the installation and operation to be a lot smoother. However, for the record, I actually like my MK6000 (I just don't think it's a good value). BTW, the price still hasn't dropped here in the U.S. thanks to President Bush's gross mismanagement of our economy, foreign policy, etc., but that's another story. :)

I think it's unfair to label these reviews as "out of date" and "misleading" when you clearly didn't even bother to read them and just skipped straight to the one sentence summaries in my pros/cons. As A2DP matures, many of the connectivity, lockup, and skipping issues should subside. However, the MK6000 itself is still the same hardware, same connections, and same basic firmware, so these reviews are still apt, especially when it comes to installation.

Contrarily, I could call your comments misleading, such as your comment on #3. If you read my review, you would know that the MK6000 does not mute the radio feed that passes through it and instead relies on the radio to mute itself when signaled to do so by the mute wire. However, many radios don't have this mute wire, and that's an important point that shouldn't be nonchalantly dismissed.

Or #5 and #6? The alternate install requires you to use line-in connectors on your head unit, which, again, many head units don't have. Thus, if you have an amplifier (even an unknown factory-installed one like mine), you also have to have line-in connectors. Plus, you loose the ability to automatically switch to your MK6000 when the phone rings. In fact, you won't even know that your phone is ringing unless your radio is both on and set to your Aux input. So being forced to use alternate install is definitely a con. A HUGE con.

And #23...what if holding Ctrl-Alt on your computer keyboard for 3 seconds completely wiped out your computer without even a confirmation prompt? I think that's too easy. A better way would be the typical reset hole you have to push with a pen tip, paperclip, stylus, etc., but at the very least I would expect a confirmation before wiping out everything.

And your comment on #11 is a flat-out lie. Sorry, but it is. First, right before that, you claim your MK6000 never locks up, then you claim you can turn off a locked up MK6000 even though you never experience this condition? If you read my review, I clearly document why you cannot turn off a locked up MK6000 with the "correct" wiring as specified by Parrot. If you know otherwise, I'd love to read your full review that refutes my wiring knowledge. Sharing of information is what make the Internet so great.

If you are considering buying an MK6000 or MK6100, please read my FULL review instead of relying on the one sentence pro/con summaries. If you're lucky like Dan, you won't have any problems. If you're unlucky like me, you'll have LOTS of problems. Either way, if you read my full review before buying, you'll know what to check for in your car audio system so you'll have a good idea of which category you're likely to fall under.

MK6000 Firmware Clarification

Dan's comment on #22 made me realize that I need to clarify something for everyone. There are 2 vastly different types of MK6000 firmware:

One language with text-to-speech.

All languages pack without text-to-speech.

Text-to-speech (TTS) drives the internal phonebook and voice recognition, the latter of which gets intercepted by the MK6000 if TTS is installed. Thus, if you want to use your phone's internal voice recognition, you must use the "all languages" firmware. Then you're stuck with multiple languages which are too easy to inadvertently change (and a far cry from "impossible"). I pretty sure this is why I had to use that damn multi-language version, but I can't verify that right now because my wife is out-of-town with my Bluetooth laptop and it's not worth the effort for me to find someone I "can borrow one from". :) If I'm wrong, somebody please post a correction so I'm not promulgating misinformation.