I was going to go the double din route but rescently changed my mind when I realized I had to cut my dash up a bit. Are the new eclipse decks any good? I seem to hear a lot of mixed reviews on them about not being as good as they use to be. Alpine did that years ago when their quality went down the crapper..... but it seems like their quality is back to being OK?? I am considering the CDA-9886 or 9887 from Alpine or CD-7200 mk II from Eclipse any thoughs?? Local shop who doesn't carry eclipse but has alpine, jcv, pioneer premium, kenwood etc & they pushed alpine. Another store carries eclipse and jvc but had zero eclipse decks on hand, only JVC. Unfortunantly their sales people were busy so I couldn't ask their opinion
hmmm sometimes a sales persons opinion is worthless. ive been a pioneer person for the longest time. and most of my friends have them too. my current head is awesome. 16 band eq, time alignment, built in xovers..... id love to get the 880prs that pioneer has, suppose to have a nice built in xover with bandpass, but the ipod control speed is lacking. my friends wife has an alpine head and the ipod speed is crazy. just as fast as you can scroll, it keeps up. my guess is to go where you can get hands on play time with some of them. some are confusing as hell. i tried a kenwood once and couldnt figure how to turn on the sub out. so hands on is key i guess. what features do you need it to have? real good cd playback, built in xover's, good eq, ipod controls......
thanks..... & yea many times they are totally worthless..... bult in x-over isn't necessary since I have a external one that I need to use for my amps I would like sub volume controll which I am sure all of what I am interested in will have I do not have a ipod but I would like the ability to hook up a thumbdrive or my mp3 player to it. I have old school Adcom amps that I plan on using & they need Adcom's GFI-4600 which is a crossover and also gives the amps the proper input voltage. Anything less then 8v sounds like crap though these amps which the gfi-4600 fixes..... I want great SQ however speaker positioning will be far from ideal so I can't be to pickey I guess......
