Better than advertised

[az1103]

These days I find that most products rarely come-up to what's advertised. But today I installed a Mix-It2, so that I could hear my satelite radio and the Garmin at the same time without an overall reduction in sound volume and quality, and without having to use a switch.

Not only does this thing work as advertised but it has taken all static out of the system and improved the sound quality. And not just on the XM but overall!

I am not generally easy to satisfy, so when I find a product that truly exceeds expectations I figure they deserve a little word of mouth advertising.

www.mixitproducts.com

[DragonRider]

Here is another that works very well, I am very satisfied with mine, It is mounted on the V Star 1300. This one comes with all the needed wires for attaching anything to it, for about the same price. So there are options out there. You have to decide which is best for you............I thought about getting the mixit but the added costs for all the wires to attach everything was a tad too much, plus you can attach a CB to the ST-1 and I didnt see that option with the Mixit....

 

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[Mariner Fan]

These days I find that most products rarely come-up to what's advertised. But today I installed a Mix-It2, so that I could hear my satelite radio and the Garmin at the same time without an overall reduction in sound volume and quality, and without having to use a switch.

Not only does this thing work as advertised but it has taken all static out of the system and improved the sound quality. And not just on the XM but overall!

I am not generally easy to satisfy, so when I find a product that truly exceeds expectations I figure they deserve a little word of mouth advertising.

www.mixitproducts.com

 

I was reading this and trying to figure out why you needed it. Do you have a separate XM radio and a Garmin? Glad it's working for you. Nice to see some products live up to their claims.

[az1103]

I was reading this and trying to figure out why you needed it. Do you have a separate XM radio and a Garmin? Glad it's working for you. Nice to see some products live up to their claims.

I had XM prior to purchasing the Garmin 550 so it is a separate unit. The Garmin XM unit is big, uggly as sin and expensive. Plus the separate unit is removable and I use it in 3 of my cars and it is much more complete in terms of info and control than the Garmin.

Now, if you try to just plug both units in the aux with a splitter it won't work. The overall impedance drops, the sound becomes crap and neither system works well. So initialy I put a switch in the system and when I wanted satelite I switched one way, and when I wanted to hear the Garmin I switched the other way. Worked OK but the switch ennoyed me. So then I soddered-up a mixer circuit which allowed me to listen to both together relatively well. But the output of the XM unit (not just this one but all of them) is much lower than the output of other sources, since it always depends on external amplification, and that makes it difficult to balance with the Garmin. So the Mix-it solved all of that by a filtered internal amplifier as well as a mixer. BTW it also gives you two mono inputs which you can use for lets say a radar detector or whatever . One of these is a priority input which means that when it senses a signal it quiets all other sources. So conceivably you could use that for a cell phone if you weren't using Bluetooth as I am.