Best SQ Head unit

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

Because, if you like to, you can have uncompressed music on an iPod, it's not just a MP3 player.

Ok, well I guess I didn't know that. I thought you had to use the Apple lossless codec to rip music to it. Uncompressed, to me, is a straight digital copy of the original with something like EAC. Will the iPod allow a .wav file without some expensive software program??

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

yes iPods(i believe only the latest generations) will let you play .wav native

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

7200 has 8v preout, 3 year waranty, 1 year esn ( if it gets stolen you get a new one)

i cant tell the difference from a 5v preout and an 8v preout to be honest. I know on the 8000prs i can crank it all the way and it didnt bring any unwanted noises that I could hear. Pioeenr has a 2year warranty still pretty good. Not sure if everyone utilizes the ESN, but there are faceplates on decks for a reason. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Pioneers independent eq is a lt better than the parametric eq on the eclipse(i have an eclipse cd7000) so I have used both in essence. Just a bit more control on the pioneer. Also the pioneer has a wonderful very responsive remote control, the one with the eclipse is shitty and that connected dpad on the eclipse deck is prone to make some stupid mistakes that piss me off when I use mine.

 

[buggsson 10+ year member]

Ok, well I guess I didn't know that. I thought you had to use the Apple lossless codec to rip music to it. Uncompressed, to me, is a straight digital copy of the original with something like EAC. Will the iPod allow a .wav file without some expensive software program??

They can play both AIFF and Wav files (I just checked the classic, but I guess the others will as well?) and I would presume you could rip at least Wav files from iTunes on a PC, which is free, and then not expensive.

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

Macs' rip CD's in lossless just by draggin and dropping from the CD to desktop in .wav format.

 

[Freelander 10+ year member]

I want the Ural CDD....is there any place online that sells them to the US or is my only choice used?

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

They can play both AIFF and Wav files (I just checked the classic, but I guess the others will as well?) and I would presume you could rip at least Wav files from iTunes on a PC, which is free, and then not expensive.

I never knew that, I guess. Great news, thanks.

But lossless is a form of compression, is it not? I understand the audibility between the two is probably not possible in a car, but just to be 100% sure.

 

[khanhfat 10+ year member]

Lol aint that the truf. Unless he got some serious pathlengths going on I doubt he doesn't need t/a, even then in a car eq is a must to gain this mysterious thing we call "sq"

it's just my impression on the 9887, well i do have some fade left right to balance the front stage. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif. My tweets points to the dash and the curvy part of the front driver dash some how point the waves of the tweeters to my left ears, the one on the right blend in well . So yeah.... im happy with my front stage .

I only got 2 fronts and 1 sub. With the 9887 , the Cleaniness and musical quality ain't up there until i move to the clarion . Lots of detail comes out the speakers, signal come out cleaner than before. Bass is tight and punchier. So i just love it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif .

Sorry for my English if u dont get what i'm saying //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif.

overall get the Clarion DRZ series!!!!

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

tonally your setup might sound good. But with you tweeters that high(lack of path lengths in the sails), you definitely need to fiddle with the t/a. imo, blindly speaking of course, If I had to guess you dont have a "Stage" in your setup.

edit: balance is different from t/a

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

My old school Pioneer M88 was one of the best SQ decks ever ...it was rated right there with the Alpine 7909 back in the day //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

 

[khanhfat 10+ year member]

tonally your setup might sound good. But with you tweeters that high(lack of path lengths in the sails), you definitely need to fiddle with the t/a. imo, blindly speaking of course, If I had to guess you dont have a "Stage" in your setup.

edit: balance is different from t/a

Well its depends on your car interior as well. There is delay but very minimal to notice it. As long as it sounds good to me so i don't mind what other ppl say . The same applies to you and your gear. Every body's taste are different. I don' tsay the alpine sucks but the musical quality coming from the HU is not as i "expected".

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

like i said you might have it down great tonally. But i just dont see how its possibleto have a good stage with your speaker placements without playing with time allignment and EQ

 

[James Bang 5,000+ posts]

I don't how he can get such a drastic change in tonality/detail just by switching out HUs.

I also wonder if he even has anything to reference his system to.

oh well

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

But with you tweeters that high(lack of path lengths in the sails), you definitely need to fiddle with the t/a.

Imaging cues in the high frequency region is dictated by IID, not ITD.

TA'ing tweeters to the same-channel mids (if drastically separated) might help same-channel phase coherency around the crossover region, but not high frequency imaging.

But yours is the only post in this thread I've read....so I'm not even really sure what the discussion is actually about.