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<blockquote data-quote="woody70" data-source="post: 8460877" data-attributes="member: 668401">Hey Camry, thanks for the reply.&nbsp; Right now I&#039;ve spend $0, lol.&nbsp; I currently have about 50 tabs open in Google Chrome doing research.&nbsp; I&#039;m starting to go down the rabbit hole of no return reading reviews and such, but I kinda like the research phase of it, hence my 50 open chrome tabs.&nbsp; And believe it or not, one of those tabs is the Pioneer DEH-80PRS.&nbsp; Here&#039;s my only issue with it though, being that I&#039;m trying to teach a 16 year old with the attention span of a gnat, he will never spend the time to delve deep off into the menus.&nbsp; I can hear it now, &quot;It&#039;s OK, it sounds good enough, now let me go show my friends&quot;.While people are raving about the units features, one that seems to have some issues is Bluetooth.&nbsp; While I stress sound quality there will be times when he is going to use the bluetooth streaming feature to play music.&nbsp; My music library is at a bare minimum 320kps.&nbsp; I&#039;m explaining to him how compression and other items affect the sound.&nbsp; He gets it when I play a song that is 56kbs vs 320, but has a harder time picking up the differences as the kps increases, which makes sense, but he just doesn&#039;t have the ear yet to pick up subtle differences because he isn&#039;t actually listening for them or even knows they exist in the music due to the way most young ones listen to their music.So, I&#039;m still giving the Pioneer DEH-80PRS heavy consideration, I was thinking it would be a lot easier to teach him how to tune a system with a decent external eq from clarion or audio control instead of having to go through 15-20 different menu options on the Pioneer DEH-80PRS to get to something and he&#039;s looking at me with that &quot;you&#039;re kidding, right?&quot; look!&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Also, trying to explain to him that spending money on sound deadening his truck is worth it.&nbsp; A quieter truck equals not having to turn the sound up as loud to drown out road noise.&nbsp; He gets it, but doesn&#039;t want to spend the money to do it (he wants me to).Like I said I&#039;m still considering the Pioneer DEH-80PRS, but would you have a recommendation for a nice head unit that would work with external crossover and external eq?Thanks a million</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woody70, post: 8460877, member: 668401"] Hey Camry, thanks for the reply. Right now I've spend $0, lol. I currently have about 50 tabs open in Google Chrome doing research. I'm starting to go down the rabbit hole of no return reading reviews and such, but I kinda like the research phase of it, hence my 50 open chrome tabs. And believe it or not, one of those tabs is the Pioneer DEH-80PRS. Here's my only issue with it though, being that I'm trying to teach a 16 year old with the attention span of a gnat, he will never spend the time to delve deep off into the menus. I can hear it now, "It's OK, it sounds good enough, now let me go show my friends". While people are raving about the units features, one that seems to have some issues is Bluetooth. While I stress sound quality there will be times when he is going to use the bluetooth streaming feature to play music. My music library is at a bare minimum 320kps. I'm explaining to him how compression and other items affect the sound. He gets it when I play a song that is 56kbs vs 320, but has a harder time picking up the differences as the kps increases, which makes sense, but he just doesn't have the ear yet to pick up subtle differences because he isn't actually listening for them or even knows they exist in the music due to the way most young ones listen to their music. So, I'm still giving the Pioneer DEH-80PRS heavy consideration, I was thinking it would be a lot easier to teach him how to tune a system with a decent external eq from clarion or audio control instead of having to go through 15-20 different menu options on the Pioneer DEH-80PRS to get to something and he's looking at me with that "you're kidding, right?" look! Also, trying to explain to him that spending money on sound deadening his truck is worth it. A quieter truck equals not having to turn the sound up as loud to drown out road noise. He gets it, but doesn't want to spend the money to do it (he wants me to). Like I said I'm still considering the Pioneer DEH-80PRS, but would you have a recommendation for a nice head unit that would work with external crossover and external eq? Thanks a million [/QUOTE]

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