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Printed Date: May 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM


Topic: headunit review

Posted By: hamzter
Subject: headunit review
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 9:20 AM

I did a search for headunit review and could not locate one in this forum.

Just wondering if anyone had any advice on one for researching best bang for buck and features.

thanks,

kd5zmg

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Mark "Hamzter" Cinense
1991 Infiniti G20 w/JDM SR20DE
Eclipse CD8445
MTX Thunder 684
Polk DB6750
Polk DB6500
Optima Red Top in the Trunk



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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 10:37 AM
What are you looking for? Toys? SQ? A little more information would be nice.

I am a fan of almost anything with an Eclipse badge on it, especially for SQ... Nothing I have heard can bet the top end Eclipse decks for total SQ. Period. I have also now seen the new Alpine head unit, (the 001) with the USB device reader in it. No CD player, but if you have lossless compressed files, it'll play them, and it sounds JUST like the CD. Hell, it IS the CD! Without the CD.

With an iPod controller, (iPod is optional) it'll still read anything that is a "USB storage device" compliant device. That means that anything you can plug into your WindowsXP computer and that computer just sees a new drive letter WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE, it'll read it.

Some devices I know for sure it WILL NOT work with:
1: Creative MP3 players need not apply... The Creative players REQUIRE the "Creative Nomad" software... it WON'T work with such a device.
2: Archos Portable Digital Video players, if in "Windows Device" mode. (In "Hard Drive" mode, it will work just fine)

For toys? Can't really beat that one. FANTASTIC SQ as well, if using the lossless file formats. (MP3 sucks, but that's not the fault of the deck, MP3 just sucks!) HDRadio ready, as well. XM and Sirius capable. (ALL of the radio formats sound like crap, but that's just the fault of the format, again, NOT the fault of the deck... Can you tell that I am not a fan of compressed audio?) Also, with that in your dash, you can TRULY say you have the latest in the new gadgets!

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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."




Posted By: jvillefinest
Date Posted: June 05, 2007 at 3:46 PM
agreed. i have always heard nothing but good things about eclipse head units. but i always find myself back with alpine. and to add on to what was said about alpine previously...they are back to 4v preouts....THANK YOU ALPINE!


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2007 Acura TSX
SQ setup in the works





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