Sold Fs: Jvc Kd-ar8500

[Dephect 10+ year member]

JVC KD-AR8500 for $250.00 plus shipping.

i recently bought a new car, so i had to do a massive part out. i only had this head unit for half a year. it's in excellent condition and is one the best JVC head units out there.

i dont have the box anymore but i still have all of the manuals, sd cards and remote.

everything that you will get.

the flash makes the suble scratches over exposed. there are no distinguished marks on the headunit.

baggy with manual, sd card and etc.

if you drive a 7th gen accord, ill throw in the din kit for free.

PM me or email me at Dephect@gmail.com if interested. thanks!

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[Dephect 10+ year member]

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[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

Does thsi unit allow you to adjust phase of each speaker as well?

I am interested, any trades?

 

[Dephect 10+ year member]

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[Dephect 10+ year member]

buy this please //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Dephect 10+ year member]

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[Dephect 10+ year member]

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[Dephect 10+ year member]

buy me please

 

[Team OSC SVT 10+ year member]

trade for a nice 15?

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=276398

 

[Dephect 10+ year member]

sorry not interested in a trade. just trying to sell.

 

[mvw2 10+ year member]

The problem is people have no clue that JVC actually makes good HUs.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Nobody has a clue what the AR8500 can even do, nor do they bother looking. Nobody has a clue the HU has a full 3-way crossover network, full time alignment, the most powerful internal amp in the industry, SD card reader, and a high quality 256 color OEL display. 99.5% of the people out there are clueless. As well, 99.5% of the people out there don't realize this price is a steal $250, for a unit you can't buy for under $400, a unit that will stand toe-to-toe with the widely popular P880PRS. I'm selling my own, and I would never let it go for that cheap, not even close.

 

[tez4life Premium Member]

The problem is people have no clue that JVC actually makes good HUs.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Nobody has a clue what the AR8500 can even do, nor do they bother looking. Nobody has a clue the HU has a full 3-way crossover network, full time alignment, the most powerful internal amp in the industry, SD card reader, and a high quality 256 color OEL display. 99.5% of the people out there are clueless. As well, 99.5% of the people out there don't realize this price is a steal $250, for a unit you can't buy for under $400, a unit that will stand toe-to-toe with the widely popular P880PRS. I'm selling my own, and I would never let it go for that cheap, not even close.

agreed, very nice and capable HU thats seriously underrated. This price for it is nuts.

 

[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

The problem is people have no clue that JVC actually makes good HUs.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif Nobody has a clue what the AR8500 can even do, nor do they bother looking. Nobody has a clue the HU has a full 3-way crossover network, full time alignment, the most powerful internal amp in the industry, SD card reader, and a high quality 256 color OEL display. 99.5% of the people out there are clueless. As well, 99.5% of the people out there don't realize this price is a steal $250, for a unit you can't buy for under $400, a unit that will stand toe-to-toe with the widely popular P880PRS. I'm selling my own, and I would never let it go for that cheap, not even close.

Not to knock on the product, but if its so wonderful why are you selling it? lol

Also the internal amps reallly make no difference when comparing active setups.

Finally the 880, IMO is the MOST versatile HU in terms of eq/crossover/polarity adjustments available. I don't think the JVC, while it is VERY worthy competition, can go completely toe to toe with it.

Anyways much of this is based on opinion. Either way, one day I'll probably play with one of these as I've been trying to get one for a while, just never had the funds when one came up for sale. Then I can compare it with the HU's I've used in the past actively: DEH-P880prs, DEH-P860mp, CD7100, CDA 9887 (current).

 

[mvw2 10+ year member]

The P880PRS gains on the JVC for its dual 16-band graph EQs. Pretty much no other HU on the market has that. The polarity thing, athough a feature, is as simple as switching the + and - wires around. Some people use it as a tuning tool. I see it more as a lazy fix for not paying attention to the + and - wires when hooking things together. It can be useful to some extent if you don't have TA. The internal amp is not a huge thing, no. To some folks who might not want an external amp, it might be important. Both units offer almost identical x-over adjustment. The JVC does have a SD card reader, and it's nice to see flash media support. SD cards are quite cheap too and more compact than USB. Some PCs like my Dell laptop even have a build in SD reader(although the JVC unit comes with a SD to USB thing). When buying my AR8500, I passed up the P860MP/P960MP for it. The P880PRS didn't exist at the time. Although the independent EQ and 16 bands is nice, you also have to decide if you will even make full use of it. I see the P880PRS and AR8500 as a more chocolate to vanila sort of argument. They both have enough features to keep you happy, but each has their own taste. You just sort of pick the one that better fits you.

Why would I give up my own AR8500? Well I gave it up once for a Ural Concert CDD cause I was stepping to a 4-way setup. Then I got a PPI DCX-730 to allow more HU freedom and to gain subwoofer TA and put the JVC back in cause, well, PPI + Ural is massive overkill and the JVC is overkill enough. The PPI doesn't like cold weather(sort of making it useless), so the Ural's going back in and the AR8500 along with the PPI goes bye bye again. The Ural unit is something that stomps both the JVC and Pioneer units feature wise. However, in a 2-way + sub configuration, I really wouldn't care which HU I'd have in my car as any of the half dozen or so affordable, 3-way active HUs now available would be "enough" to be happy with.

There are quite a few 2-way + sub active capable HUs on the market these days, enough to shake a stick wildly blindfolded and probably hit one. They all have enough processing power to do what you need it to do and keep you happy. However, it's all just a matter of taste as each one will offer slightly different feature sets, a different user interface that you may or may not like, and different looks that may or may not be attractive or match the car's interior. It's sort of a best fit thing.

I will make an additional note with the JVC units. They are tanks. You can buy any of their HUs throw it in your car and not worry about it wearing out or breaking pretty much for the life of the car. I've had to throw away two of my JVCs because they outlived my cars and their use in my progression towards higher end HUs and more features. One was an old tape deck of about 10 years and the other was one of their gaudy Kameleon decks that I had for about 5 years, talk about motorized and flashy lights to high heaven, lol. I have a friend with a very low end JVC CD player that he used for a good 3-4 years until he bought a new car that it can't fit in. They don't break. They don't wear out. About all they do is get dusty and old and generally out live the car or their usefulness. Hitting below the belt, JVCs have one bonus over Pioneer, no RCA hiss:laugh:, and I know that's a big stickler for a lot of people considering Pioneer units.