Best Buy to Carry Alpine feb 05

Didn't think so.   I keep seeing flashes of Pioneer's at wallmart, and how they used to be a high end company till something like this happend.  Now i wont touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole cuz every kid under the sun with $99 has a pioneer deck.

Its a shame! a DAM shame!

I can just see wal-mart selling the CDA-9835 and some dumass kid trying to figure out how to turn up the bass and just do something totally different then the walmart assistant/jewely seller/mechanic/clothes department person try to turn it up and then try to explain the bass engine and say "its an actual small engine that boosts the sound with a special belt inside the cd player"...uh huh.

i dont know guys.... i was one of the first certified installers Alpine trained when they came to Canada in 1979, I've been a warranty service centre for them since 1980... I've stuck with them thru the rich years,  ( Lambo giveaways, massive promos, etc ) and the leaner years of the early 90's... but i can't say i really like the direction the company or the product is heading....( amplifiers that come with an owner/user's manual the size of a phone book )   i really hope they dont go back to the slock "get the product out there no matter what " mentality of the late 80's, early 90's when they dumped the product in the big box stores with no training or support.... i still respect the name and i know all the guys at the company here in Canada, but it seems of late like they are floundering, trying to get a grasp on their own identity....

i don't know....  just an observation....

Walmart will never ever carry alpine. Best buy is up and coming i believe were finally dropping the POS tf punch series. We need to get rid of pioneer, pioneer has fallen alot over the past few years. IF we carried pioneer premier it would be a different story. Over the years we have carried alot if crap brands but i think over the next year thatll change. After tweeter falls which should be soon, I think well pick up alot of their brands as well. CC and       Tweeter are not doing good.

Vbel just remember when you buy an alpine off of ebay good luck getting warranty work from alpine done it cuz they wont touch it with a pole.