Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 1020096" data-attributes="member: 561023">I&#039;ve never owned an Aiwa deck myself but have experienced a few that friends have had. For the money they seem to be built solidly and are worth the asking price. The Aiwa units I&#039;ve seen in use were applied a couple of different ways - one was driving coaxials off deck power backed by an amped sub, such as stones was talking about in his wife&#039;s ride. Another was driving OEM speakers and nothing else. A third was the source unit for amped components alon with a pair of amped subs. Did any of these setups have great SQ? No. Did they sound like they were worth the owner&#039;s investment? Yes. That being said...I was reading the specs for this deck on Crutchfield&#039;s site...I find some of them a bit incredulous, to say the least. 120dB CD S/N ratio and 9dBf FM mono sensitivity on a $100 deck? If those ratings are real that&#039;s pretty impressive.For a system that will never be built beyond budget it should do fine. But if you have aspirations that your setup might get fairly involved in the future I wouldn&#039;t head it with that deck.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 1020096, member: 561023"] I've never owned an Aiwa deck myself but have experienced a few that friends have had. For the money they seem to be built solidly and are worth the asking price. The Aiwa units I've seen in use were applied a couple of different ways - one was driving coaxials off deck power backed by an amped sub, such as stones was talking about in his wife's ride. Another was driving OEM speakers and nothing else. A third was the source unit for amped components alon with a pair of amped subs. Did any of these setups have great SQ? No. Did they sound like they were worth the owner's investment? Yes. That being said... I was reading the specs for this deck on Crutchfield's site... I find some of them a bit incredulous, to say the least. 120dB CD S/N ratio and 9dBf FM mono sensitivity on a $100 deck? If those ratings are real that's pretty impressive. For a system that will never be built beyond budget it should do fine. But if you have aspirations that your setup might get fairly involved in the future I wouldn't head it with that deck. [/QUOTE]

Verification