audiofanaticz 10+ year member
Team TMH
Eclipse makes a deck under 250. Well not with tax. It has a lot of great stuff, and comes with a anti theft guard. (they will replace it if stolen) High volt pre-outs, built in x-over, mp3/cdrw, 3 sets of RCA's. I LOVE MINE
Thats a loud of bull! I ran so many eclipse decks because there nice. All the eclipse decks have the ESN theft on them, except their cheapest model I believe.
I heard so many rumors about the ESN. Some people say its a built in gps tracking system, that if your deck gets stolen you call eclipse and they will beguin a trace on it next time it powers up.
I also heard that eclipse will replace it if stolen.
But none of these are true. Goto their site and see where it says this!!! It seems audio dealers like to make these up so they can sell you a 400 buck cd player.
ESN is Eclipse Security Network, and what it does is enables you to use a personalized code or cd that must be inserted into the deck the next time you use it if the power has been disconnected. If the wrong code, or cd is entered too many times it will lock the cd player up, so it will have to be sent to eclipse so they can unlock it. The decks aint even detachable faced.
But if I where to steal a deck and it was locked out I sure wouldnt send it to eclipse so I could be caught.
http://www.eclipse-web.com.au/