Alpine Head Units....

[jc2904]

whats up with the new alpine head units... No motorized face plates! Now where do i go, back to clarion or maybe the alpine iva-w205. Which is about $800 more then a good deck.. Any other good choices out there??

 

[Circuit]

Eclipse! Amazing sound quality and all of them have that motorized face that you are looking for.

 

[protege_lx99]

Eclipse! Amazing sound quality and all of them have that motorized face that you are looking for.

I agree with you, Eclipse makes great head unit

I have a CD-5000 since 1 week, and I like all the settings they have

8V Pre out (3x)
7-band parametric EQ
time alignment
subwoofer control with low-pass filter
etc

 

[jc2904]

looking at some of the different decks out there....


pioneer-9800bt

eclipse-cd7100

alpine-cda9887

 

[meinp5]

Why is a motorized faceplate so important? I have a new Alpine(9885) and I like it a lot.

 

[Circuit]

I have the CD7100 and LOVE IT. Right now I am just running it on my oem speakers with the sirius tuner and ipod controller. I pulled the deck out of my totaled Eclipse (it was running a 4 channel and sub) and also had the CD7000 before that.

I really can't say enough about how much I LOVE the HU. The only thing it is really lacking is a bluetooth adapter (the one available from Eclipse [made by Parrot] only mutes the speaker outputs during calls, not the preout ouputs).

Here it is with my iPod and the MSP Pocket:

 

[jc2904]

not having it just seams like a step back... don't you think(plus i'm lazy)

 

[1sty]

not having it just seams like a step back... don't you think(plus i'm lazy)

No, its just one less useless feature in the headunit and one less thing to break

 

[BlueWolfCry]

Hey Circuit, how do you navigate the iPod music on that hu?

 

[meinp5]

No, its just one less useless feature in the headunit and one less thing to break

Thats kinda how I feel about it too.

 

[xtrememps]

Thats kinda how I feel about it too.

My feelings also. After dealing with the MSP's Kenwood unit I'm wary of getting another motorized face plate.

 

[Circuit]

Hey Circuit, how do you navigate the iPod music on that hu?

Using the outer wheel on the control knob on the left of the HU. It replicates the iPod's controls pretty well. Very easy to use.

 

[lowandslow]

Thats kinda how I feel about it too.

I agree as well, I have had older Alpine decks with the motorized face and adjustable viewing angle... never used it and hated waiting for the deck to open when I wanted to change a CD.

I have a newer Alpine deck now without the motorized face and I love it. Less to go wrong. I have the CDA-9856

Matt