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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 1625693" data-attributes="member: 561023">I have no experience with either unit personally.Having said that I continually hear more bad things than good about the GlideTouch mechanism on the Alpine.Both the Alpines you mentioned and the Pioneer 860 have three sets of RCA preamp outputs (front, rear, and dedicated subwoofer being what those three are)As far as the 24brown bit goes (using your words) that is referencing a Burr-Brown 24-bit digital to analog converter. The overwhelming majority of HUs available use quad 1-bit DACs in their digital signal to analog output conversion. Some upper end units (such as the Pioneer P860MP, most of the Kenwood eXcelon units out currently, and others) have gone to using 24-bit Burr-Brown DACs (the designers of this particular DAC) instead for stronger processing power resulting in increased SQ. For the &#039;06 model year Kenwood has gone to 24-bit Wolfson DACs (which are theoretically even better than the B-B units) to up the ante even further. I will assume that other manufacturers will follow suit shortly.Personally given the choice I would take the Pioneer over either of those Alpines if for no other reason than I hear good things about it than I do the Alpines.Just my $0.02.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 1625693, member: 561023"] I have no experience with either unit personally. Having said that I continually hear more bad things than good about the GlideTouch mechanism on the Alpine. Both the Alpines you mentioned and the Pioneer 860 have three sets of RCA preamp outputs (front, rear, and dedicated subwoofer being what those three are) As far as the 24brown bit goes (using your words) that is referencing a Burr-Brown 24-bit digital to analog converter. The overwhelming majority of HUs available use quad 1-bit DACs in their digital signal to analog output conversion. Some upper end units (such as the Pioneer P860MP, most of the Kenwood eXcelon units out currently, and others) have gone to using 24-bit Burr-Brown DACs (the designers of this particular DAC) instead for stronger processing power resulting in increased SQ. For the '06 model year Kenwood has gone to 24-bit Wolfson DACs (which are theoretically even better than the B-B units) to up the ante even further. I will assume that other manufacturers will follow suit shortly. Personally given the choice I would take the Pioneer over either of those Alpines if for no other reason than I hear good things about it than I do the Alpines. Just my $0.02. [/QUOTE]

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