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Yeah I don't think that's right...

not interested in single din HU's. They just don't look right in my car. Sorry.

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I'll come out and say it I can't stand touch sreen head units and saddly at this point that is what most of the double din's are all about. Personally I find them to look a bit out of place in most older cars. When pioneer was still making the FH-P800BT and 8000BT there was an attractive no...

Yeah I know the tubes involved here are more or less a buffer that are inline either before or after amplification to add some of that sweet warm and fuzzy tube sound. An actual full tube amp would be kinda neet to see though I don't know if you could really make a high powered on efficient...

The only issue I can see is with the tube final stage as far as relaiblility goes. There are quite a few things that tubes do not like such as vibration, being power on and then off in a rather short duration of time (they like to be on for hours), and extreme temp changes. It would be exposed...

I agree that's not what I was getting at with that statment, I'm sorry if it came out that way. I'm also well aware that the brands that harmond owns still make a quality product. I'm helping a friend install an all JBL system in his car next summer, their components all seem quite respectable...

Lets not start throwing stones here, I didn't insult you or your speakers or the amp you sujested. Do you have any direct experiance with their current products or are you basing that statment off what a few people have to say. Cause from what I've seen it's anything but a "cookie cutter chinese...

I'm well aware of there reputation. Though there are of expertice was home audio back in the 60's, 70's, and 80's. There current products are pretty good but they aren't the cutting edge in audio either. Thats what I was getting at.

**** double posting. for those that didn't want to read hear is the TL;DR version. Buying Alpha, maybe inifinity's or CDT.

I know all about the virutes of buying second had gear belive me. I've got a bit of a home audio addiction as well and you can get some real good value by snagging some of the high end gear made in the 70's and 80's. Though on the car audio front the issue that I have is that most componets live...

I was thinking about $500-$600, not going to break the bank but not underestimating the cost of quality I think. As far as HU go I've got a line on a Pioneer FH-P800BT (it's got an understated look and it has pre outs for front, rear, and Sub) though I do have a post in the classified section...

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Yeah they're not made like the old Zed based amps of the 80's and 90's. Though I think there current build quility is about as good as any of the other massproduced "higher end" (read decent) amps out there. I think the main issue is that fact that there parent company (The Anaba Group) owns...

I was thinking the Alphasonic PM12005E 75x4 rms and 250x1 rms. I remeber their stuff from 2002-2006 and they definatly had some solid amps. The PM12005E has got some pretty respectable specs and from what I've seen on the build side it's a pretty robust 5 channel. I'm not looking for anything...