alpine head units

[shamsky]

im looking for a headunit that will serve to play my ipod through the headunit and have CD quality sound

alpine seems to have what im looking for

the alpine9856 looks good

anything you wanna recomend

or reviews?

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[HannaS10 10+ year member]

im looking for a headunit that will serve to play my ipod through the headunit and have CD quality sound
alpine seems to have what im looking for

the alpine9856 looks good

anything you wanna recomend

or reviews?

I have that HU and I like it alot. The ipod speed is pretty good.

 

[MBrock4u 10+ year member]

Its a funny thing for me. I got to play around with several different decks today, and evey time I see this head unit I would love to have it. Alpine's look so good, but unfortantly I can't buy a deck solely on looks. This is nice deck though. I am sold though on Excelon's. Played with a couple of Pioneer's as well SWEET! Anyway, the deck you are looking to get, you should be happy with .

 

[baseballer1100 5,000+ posts]

I had that hu great headunit for sure.

 

[shamsky]

thanks yea

i wouldnt have a problem supporting sub woofers with this correct?

 

[Ali1 10+ year member]

it was a decent HU. Plays ipods just fine.

 

[chucku 10+ year member]

I have the same hu, it works great with the i-pod. I may upgrade to a pioneer for the eq ability in the near future.

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

It will play an Ipod to the best of its ability but if its compressed music it wont be CD quality

 

[shamsky]

It will play an Ipod to the best of its ability but if its compressed music it wont be CD quality

what do u mean compressed music

 

[ravendarat 10+ year member]

MP3 is a compressed format. They take a song and shrink it to make the file smaller. When you do this you loose sound quality. Some people can notice this difference, others, and I would say a large majority of others, cant tell or dont care.

 

[CarAmpsonline]

dude i have 9856.. it sounds really good.. you jus have to hook it up with alpine kce-422i and you are good to go

 

[zSnb 10+ year member]

SQ from MP3's are so close to CD quality that its almost not even noticeable. That is also assuming that the mp3 bitrate is 320kbps. Regardless, as long as your mp3's have a bitrate above 192kbps it will still sound good. If you plan on using your ipod, go for the 2007 Pioneer's. You can buy them at best buy and most online stores now. The 6900UB comes with the ipod adapter and i believe its only $200 or so online. It looks 100x nicer than any of the newer Alpine's in my opinion and it will offer a bit more tweakability and ease of use. Once you buy a nice Pioneer you'll have a really hard time switching to anything else.