eclipse head units
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Printed Date: April 28, 2024 at 11:46 PM
Topic: eclipse head units
Posted By: dragon51
Subject: eclipse head units
Date Posted: June 01, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Are they still any good? The local shop has stopped caring the Eclipse line since they are now at the big box store, they thought the quality has gone down. Any truth to that?
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Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: June 01, 2009 at 8:14 PM
We brought them in for one year and we had about a 40 % failure rate. IMO, that's crap. We don't have them in our shop anymore.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: forbidden
Date Posted: June 02, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Yet I have very few problems.....it must be a prairie abuse kind of thing.
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Top Secret, I can tell you but then my wife will kill me.
Posted By: whiterob
Date Posted: June 02, 2009 at 12:47 AM
I had the CD3200 and was very happy with it. It had great sound quality and I don't have any complaints. My buddy had the CD3100 and was equally happy with it.
When I worked at circuit city I did notice some of their decks had some issues. Mostly problems with them reading discs. That was just with the floor models we had and that was a few years back.
Posted By: dragon51
Date Posted: June 02, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Well it looks as thought they are not the deck they once were. I still have mine from 15 years ago! Still sounds good!
Dose anyone make a deck that is even close to what Eclipse used to make?
Its sad to see such great decks going to crap or not around any more like Nakamichi.
Posted By: Steven Kephart
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 1:17 AM
Velocity Motors wrote:
We brought them in for one year and we had about a 40 % failure rate. IMO, that's crap. We don't have them in our shop anymore.
Now you have me worried. I have had a 7200mkII sitting around for about 9 months that I am finally ready to put in my car.
What brand of decks do you like?
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 9:45 AM
personally, i think eclipse sold out on quality to make some lines cheaper and more appealing so that circuit city would carry them. i installed them for a little more than a year and from my experience all but the most expensive equipment from eclipse is crap now. although i do like their DDIN navigation units.
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Posted By: dragon51
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 10:07 AM
So does anyone carry make a deck that is even close, to what they used to make?
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Steven Kephart wrote:
Now you have me worried. I have had a 7200mkII sitting around for about 9 months that I am finally ready to put in my car.
What brand of decks do you like?
The units that I had the main problems with were the 3100 and the CD2000 units ( more the 3100 ). I had one customer bring his 3100 back to me 3 times and by the third time, I just apologized and upgraded him to a Pioneer unit we had at the time ( no longer doing Pioneer either  ) I have nothing against Eclipse, they have very nice sounding HU's and the decks themselves are easy on the eyes. The features could be more better on the lower end model, but it's not a big deal. The big deal with me is the warranty and the fact that we had to use it and it cost me money to have it sent back and forth to get the deck repaired. All in all, I guess I had a bad experience with Eclipse and we now have Clarion and for us, it's been great. We've sold and installed 70+ head units and only one video units has been sent in for warranty ( but it was the customer's fault, he dropped the deck while he was installing it ) and the screen didn't turn on after that  . I know some people don't like the Clarion's new face plates, but I have no problems with the decks and the margins are good + they have everything you want as far as features for the price. ------------- Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 10:18 AM
dragon51 wrote:
So does anyone carry make a deck that is even close, to what they used to make?
Do you have a budget in mind ? Also, did you want video as well or just CD/MP3/iPod control/AUX in ? ------------- Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: dragon51
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 12:32 PM
My brother-in-law has been looking at getting some good gear for his car, he is figuring about 10-15 grand. He has been looking at JL 12W7 using ARC signature amps.
He really likes my old school Bostons I have the old rally 5 1/4 components.
I have just been undecided on what deck for him, I have always liked Eclipse that is what I have running in my wife's car deck and amp all of it from several years back! It still sounds really good. At this point he does not care about video but who knows that might change.
Posted By: dragon51
Date Posted: June 03, 2009 at 12:41 PM
At some point I would like to get a new HU for my wife since the knob on my Eclipse stopped working. So I have had to adjust the sound by using the amps variable crossover and bass adjustments. That proved to be tricky! Since I have the amp mounted in the trunk. Good times there!
Posted By: Steven Kephart
Date Posted: June 07, 2009 at 2:28 AM
Well I got the 7200 installed in my car today and it seems to work just fine. The only thing that didn't work was the steering wheel control adapter. Unfortunately I didn't have time to diagnose the problem. But it sounds really good on the right side speaker I had time to install today as well. Now to find time to put in the left speaker..........
Posted By: shortancrazy2
Date Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:41 PM
i have an eclipse cd5423 head unit.when i turn it on it says sec help,7b800994 what do i have to do to get it to work
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adam
Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: January 12, 2010 at 9:51 PM
shortancrazy2 wrote:
i have an eclipse cd5423 head unit.when i turn it on it says sec help,7b800994 what do i have to do to get it to work
I can guarantee you that it is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that anybody here can help you with. You MUST take the deck to an authorized dealer, WITH your receipt, and they will ship it back to them for unlocking. ------------- It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
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