Customer Reviews:
Amazing, but microphone too sensitive.......2007-10-20
I had Best Buy install the Parrot CK3000 Evolution with the Multicomm in my daughter's car. She thinks part of driving is talking on the phone. One hand was always holding her phone to her ear while driving. She needed a good hands-free unit to make the road safer for others.
At low speeds, it worked great. It also worked great for me at high speed. The callers could hardly tell I was on a hands-free unit even at high speeds in a small (noisy) car.
But when my daughter used it at high speeds, people would tell her she was very hard to understand. There seemed to be a scratching static of her higher voice when the road noise increased. I theorize that the Parrot noise cancelation was canceling out too much of her voice when road noise increased.
I added a 10 ohm resistor (from Radio Shack) in the microphone wire. This did the trick. The extra resistance lowered the sensitivity in the microphone resulting in less pick-up of road noise but still great pick-up of her voice. Lowering the sensitivity resulted in less need for the noise cancelation to work so hard. It still cancels most road noise, but does not lower the quality of her voice. You almost can't tell she is on a speaker phone. With the adjustment, this becomes an amazing product.
Not everything I expect........2007-05-16
For the most part the Parrot CK3000 works. I bought a special harness to connect it to my steering wheel controls and that works fine. However, for some reason I will have random trouble with the bluetooth giving a spotty connection. I'll have full bars on the phone but a poor transfer of voice data back and forth, with the sound dropping out. So I believe it's the bluetooth and not the phone signal.
Also, for a car unit, I would have figured that ambient noise and the voices coming through the stereo would have been taken into effect. The unit goes through the stereo and when I'm on quiet roads, it works well enough but my friends complain about noise. On a loud road, I have to turn the stereo up enough that it does a feedback loop of sorts. While my friends can hear me, when they try to speak it's terrible for them cause they hear themselves coming back through the microphone.
So if I'm on the highway, I'm not sure how useful this product ends up being.
Also, the website has a firmware upgrade sytem for the product, but you have to buy a separate cable and hook it to your computer to load them. The cable should come with the unit so a person can upgrade the second they buy the unit. Why is this so important? Well, once you have it installed in the car, nobody is going to take their car apart again just to reflash the Parrot CK3000 so an upgrade is only useful before you install.
On quiet roads though, I am able to have a conversation and it's nice.
I drive a VW GTI 2007.
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Evolution CK3000 Handsfree Car Kit - Parrot Evolution CK3000 handsfree car kit- For Bluetooth mobile phones- Compatible with most Bluetooth cell phones- Intuitive browser button- Voice recognition (driver says a name and the unit dials the number)- Uses
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With its new Bluetooth-certified CK3000 vehicle handsfree, Parrot is the first company to market a vehicle handsfree system compliant with Bluetooth wire-less technology. The Parrot CK3000 radically changes motorists' lives. The Parrot CK3000 offers real added value to individuals' phones featuring Bluetooth functionality. Place calls while driving, with your cell-phone still inside your pocket. The use of Bluetooth ensures greater driving comfort and safety.
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