Recent content by smoothcriminal

First off.... I just went through a "hands on" kind of personal testing of many of these. I have a 12" JL Audio w3v2 runnin off an Alpine mrp-m850 and a pair of 4" x 6" Boston Acousics S70 dash speakers and a set of 6.5 w/ 1" dome Kenwood KFC-P708 components runnin off an Autotek 490.4 with a...

Just got an Alpine CDA-9885 off ebay for $130. It's euipt with cable for ipod and I have never been so impressed with a change in head unit. I went from a really good unit (pioneer premier 660mp) to what I consider to be the best. The sound quality was a 10 fold improvemeny (not that it was bad...

Look, I have a lil' S-10 regular cab and one 12 is all I can fit too. The absolute BEST sub for this size cab and power you have is a JL Audio 12" w3v2. I have an Alpine MRP-M850 which is 850w RMS @ 2ohms on a 12 w3v2 and I assure you it doesn't get any better than that. I'm not just jockin' my...

That it was......gain issue. I lowered the gains about a quarter down and it stopped clipping and sounds insanely better than it did with the premier. Which seems a bit odd.... I did expect a small step up in the sound quality, but not such an overall difference. I know the premier 660mp is an...

I've been upgrading my system piece by piece and I finally got the last piece of the puzzle and now my highs amp cuts out during a really loud part of a song. I guess I'll back up for a second and give you my system set up.......... Alpine CDA-9885 head unit Autotek SS490.4 (highs amp)...

Nooooo problem.....it was worth it just to peep your avitar a couple times yo !

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed to know.

no.no.no......... I'm not talking about the secondary vehicle harness, but the harness that plugs directly into the back of the head unit. I would never use a secondary harness that connects to vehicle manufactuer wirring. I have alot of equiptment (amps, sound proccessors, eq,line driver...

I just bought an Alpine CDA-9885 and need a wirring harness for it. I found one for a CDA-9885 for $26 and I found an Alpine black 16 pin harness for 4.95 on ebay that listed close to 20 different CDA models that it was compatible with and while it did not list the 9885 it did list other models...