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<blockquote data-quote="neo_styles" data-source="post: 8176537" data-attributes="member: 644168"><p>[quote name='RoYALbLUE08']my avh-p8400 gives me perfectly good crystal clear loud sound with 0 distortion. it only has an 8 band eq but running the speakers active its fine from my crescendo amp is fine. besides. wouldnt you need time allignment if your running front and back speakers?</p><p></p><p>not to mention i like to be updated with technology i dont like old school stuff so my headunit is very nice looking, very fast and responsive and has great features that i use everyday in it and a nice 7 inch screen that i mirror my iphone on it for navigation/internet browsing, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I actually just traded off my 8400 DD in favor of a JVC KD-A95BT. While I do miss the 8-band EQ (and had finally gotten settings where they were sounding great), the SQ on this $200 JVC is leaps and bounds ahead of the Pioneer. In my experience, Pioneer decks always favor low frequencies, Alpine favors the high, and Eclipse love midrange. This JVC covers all three extremely well and its sense of staging and imaging just pushed it over the top. Its 5-band graphic EQ, though, leaves a little to be desired.</p><p></p><p>Adding my two cents in the equation (especially after this experience), the deck should really be the first thing you look at replacing when searching for SQ. You can have some of the nicest amplifiers and speakers/subs in existence, but great amplification is only going to amply a bad source. There&#39;s a reason the processing world is doing so well right now. He<span style="color: black">l</span>l, for $350 these days, you can take a JBL MS-8 and make almost any consumer-level deck sound better. [USER=581625]@PapaGeno21[/USER] ; can vouch for this especially. He&#39;s seen tremendous gains in what his system is capable of after putting it in his system and he&#39;s by no means all about the essques.</p><p></p><p>On the other side of the argument, you can&#39;t take a great deck and poop amplification and expect to get good results, either. These days, it really doesn&#39;t matter if it&#39;s Class A/B, D, G, H, etc since there&#39;s great and awful examples of each in the industry. Swapping out my A/B Boston Acoustics GT-2125 for a Zed Leviathan was in itself a giant leap ahead for my sub stage. That Boston is now happily driving my passive components. But don&#39;t expect to get a Shark, AP, VVME, whatever budget amp and expect it to perform like a Sinfoni. It just won&#39;t.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="neo_styles, post: 8176537, member: 644168"] [quote name='RoYALbLUE08']my avh-p8400 gives me perfectly good crystal clear loud sound with 0 distortion. it only has an 8 band eq but running the speakers active its fine from my crescendo amp is fine. besides. wouldnt you need time allignment if your running front and back speakers? not to mention i like to be updated with technology i dont like old school stuff so my headunit is very nice looking, very fast and responsive and has great features that i use everyday in it and a nice 7 inch screen that i mirror my iphone on it for navigation/internet browsing, etc.[/QUOTE] I actually just traded off my 8400 DD in favor of a JVC KD-A95BT. While I do miss the 8-band EQ (and had finally gotten settings where they were sounding great), the SQ on this $200 JVC is leaps and bounds ahead of the Pioneer. In my experience, Pioneer decks always favor low frequencies, Alpine favors the high, and Eclipse love midrange. This JVC covers all three extremely well and its sense of staging and imaging just pushed it over the top. Its 5-band graphic EQ, though, leaves a little to be desired. Adding my two cents in the equation (especially after this experience), the deck should really be the first thing you look at replacing when searching for SQ. You can have some of the nicest amplifiers and speakers/subs in existence, but great amplification is only going to amply a bad source. There's a reason the processing world is doing so well right now. He[COLOR="black"]l[/COLOR]l, for $350 these days, you can take a JBL MS-8 and make almost any consumer-level deck sound better. [USER=581625]@PapaGeno21[/USER] ; can vouch for this especially. He's seen tremendous gains in what his system is capable of after putting it in his system and he's by no means all about the essques. On the other side of the argument, you can't take a great deck and poop amplification and expect to get good results, either. These days, it really doesn't matter if it's Class A/B, D, G, H, etc since there's great and awful examples of each in the industry. Swapping out my A/B Boston Acoustics GT-2125 for a Zed Leviathan was in itself a giant leap ahead for my sub stage. That Boston is now happily driving my passive components. But don't expect to get a Shark, AP, VVME, whatever budget amp and expect it to perform like a Sinfoni. It just won't. [/QUOTE]
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