Sony DSX-M80 High Power 45W X 4 Rms Digital Media Receiver with Bluetooth and SiriusXM Ready

What a great head unit. Paired with four new Kicker speakers in my boat and WOW! HUGE settings menu for total audio and visual customization. My only con......the button on the remote does not turn the radio on. Maybe someone from Sony will see this and help me with the issue. I have an installation tip. This is a high power unit and requires proper power to feed it. If you don't already have 12 gauge hot AND ground wires feeding your current head unit. You MUST and I mean MUST run new 12 gauge hot AND ground wires for this unit to function properly. I thought I had proper wiring in my boat and unfortunately I did not. It looked like 12 but was only 14. Because of this, the unit couldn't reach its full volume potential of 50 and would cut off at 30 and restart. Ran new 12 gauge hot AND ground wires per Sony recommendation. Problem solved. My boat now rocks louder and cleaner than any of my friends.

Great sound quality and good power to speakers with no external amp. Sony quality!

Half the price of the Harmon-Kardon repair and so much louder and nicer ! If you’re debating changing your stereo then don’t wait any longer ! UPDATE- ok so after a few months it has come to not handle vibration very well . It keeps saying output error after a little while riding . Hit a bump , vibration and such it cuts to that error message . When I slow down it’ll come back on sometimes and others it won’t . I love the sound and volume! Looks great too but I’m thinking of switching to aquatic stereo . All in all it’s still better than the stock stereo!

Crazy loud, great output. Has a bit of a static sound.

Great sound quality and has lots of great features, internal amp works very well too

Sony has always been a provider of great quality products but looks like I received a dud. The head unit was installed as directed and worked great for about 10 minutes and while trying to tune the sound, the volume was elevated to about half power at which time the unit started clipping and then no sound. All Sony troubleshooting was followed from resets, to initialization and even rewired to ensure all connections were solid but still no sound. Speakers are new Sony XS160s which were pulled and bench test to confirm no issues. Cramming a higher power amplifier into a single head unit does not seem the way to go. Sony even notes in their troubleshooting guide that if the sounds stops and it has been wired to the vehicle's dedicated 12V power source for the factory radio to then wire direct to the battery. Seems that this might be an ongoing issue for their high powered head units.

Very good value.

I love this stereo! Great functionality, love the customizable colors, and the 10 band custom EQ is great for tweaking sound quality. The internal amp is plenty powerful, I was thinking about replacing the speakers in my boat but this unit has really woken up the old ones, so no longer necessary. Internal amp is powerful enough that I ended up having to run a dedicated 12 gauge circuit to the battery, it was pulling enough current through the factory wiring to cause the voltage to drop and the head unit to shut off. Much better now.

Dislike "demo mode" but easy to disable. Like clear powerful sound and plug in XM radio that is easy to set up.

warranty department has been very slow, unit died within first year, made two calls, left message, no response, warranty expired, money lost

After 1 week of use, it is supposed to be a weatherproof Marine radio and it no longer works 😡

Wasn’t as Loud as I expected but it is a fine stereo.

works great. used it for half the summer with no problems as of now