Recent content by Tical84

No kidding. I wouldn't recommend anything newer honestly. The newest versions are crap.

OK. I changed the title. The Alpine is out, the Pioneer is in. Opinions?

Does anyone know of a website where I can compare the two (Eclipse and Pioneer) like Crutchfield?

Well, I wouldn't mind it being in my truck if it gives me the best SQ without going into the $1000 HUs, let's put it that way.

I drive a 2005 F-150 regular cab but there's more room than any regular cab made if that means anything. Looks means some to me, but not as much as SQ. The Eclipse is plenty sexy.

Ok, so you took out one HU from my list of two but added one more, the 880prs *looks for confused smiley* The Eclipse has an 8V preout but I think the dual 16-band EQ more than makes up for that as the Eclipse only has a single 7-band. I wish Crutchfeild carried Premier, it would make it...

Thanks, I'll take a look. While I'm looking what is the main SQ difference between them? The Pioneer looks to be much cheaper.

It depends on if you want XM or Sirius, if you want a Plug-n-Play unit or one that plays through the HU, etc, etc. Check out the respective websites for a 3 day free trial if you're not sure which service you would like and go from there.

As far as I'm concerned that's worse than eBay. At least eBay sometimes gives a warranty if it's new.

What about people that have had problems warrenty wise, not neccessarily problems with the seller? If it busts it must be a PITA to send it back.

Define "all out active setup". I'm a noob as you can tell by my 3 posts and double posting. I want a good SQ system. I'm an audiophile but know nothing about car audio. Home and computer audio is a different story. I want a system I can enter into a small town SQ contest. I don't need to...

I was looking at the 9855 but didn't have the funds last year and now I can't find it anywhere since it's last years model. I don't trust eBay all that much.

**Double post** please delete Sorry

Stage 1 of my SQ system is going to be the HU. I have it narrowed down to the Pioneer Premier 880PRS, and the Eclipse CD5000 The Eclipse has a cool little NAV feature...Cooly useless when living in a small town of only 86,000 people. What would you pick of those two and why? Or if you have...