Hmmm sounds like i'm better off staying with the 7800. I guess i'll just make some sweet a s s playlists, lol. What you said does make sense, i figured it'd be something like that. You forgot to factor in the super cool factor I just am in need for some change since i bored of the 7800 and it's ipod functionality, and i don't like ANY other alpine HU's, at least the new ones with full speed. The alpines h701 is like $350 on ebay i believe, so that's quite pricey. At first i wanted the Iva-D310 with the h701, but it's just out of my price range. Any other ways i could go?? I'm looking in the ball park of LESS then 600 after selling my 7800... Ya know.. All that would be for naught if I'm totally wrong and the H701 does take the signal from the IDA digitally via AI-Net. I cannot verify it doesn't.. They really don't say.. Alpine might know.