which head unit

pioneer 7800 no doubt pimpin

woo hoo for panasonic! i love their head units. i have 2 that are similar to yours. check out this site:

Panasonic Custom Displays

you cant reccomend alpine over eclipse if you want pretty. no way in hell. alpine are some of the most god awful simplistic ugly head units ever. just down right ugly. eclipse isn't pretty really but they will do a far better job than others in the same price range. That is all I run, and all I will ever run in my cars until the companies goes bye bye. Eclipse (well, Fujitsu Ten) has some of the sickest concepts and production pieces out.

oh and i believe pioneers have had grounding problems for some time now. maybe they fixed it in the 07 line up.

Originally posted by KAOSS



with the same speakers in my truck I went from an Eclipse CD2000 to the Premier p690ub. The eclipse deck seemed louder, but the premier has a better sound quality. The deck is only a small part in SQ equation though.

The deck is more than a small part of the equation in SQ. With SQ every piece in the equation plays a big part. Starting with the source of the sound ( ex: CD, MP3, Satelite Radio, ETC ) The head unit is next. One weak link in the equation can ruin the whole thing. Including your wires. The Eclipse cd2000 is more of an entry level Eclipse. If you were to step up to the cd5100 or cd7100 you would notice a substantial difference in the SQ. If SQ is what your after then my suggestion is to not slack on any of your components to the speakers. As for the original question in this post. My choices are in this order from top to bottom. Eclipse, Alpine, JVC, Clarion. Personally I wont buy anything but Eclipse unless they go out of business. In which case I will switch to Alpine. My thing about Pioneer is all the BS on the screen. I mean if I wana see Dolphins I will go to Sea World or something. The circuitry used for all that stuff could be used to add a 24-bit digital signal processor, or an EQ. But like I said thats my opinion. Looks come second after performance for me. If it sounds killer but looks like crap. I will just hide it under the seat or in the glovebox.