Is there still high-end car audio?

[MemphisCherokee 10+ year member]

McIntosh and Nakamichi are still available...
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Alpine, Pioneer, Kenwood, Eclipse (now out of business, but equipment is readily available) and JVC make some nice cd players too. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

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[ghause]

rant...

I couldn't have ranted it better myself. I don't want dolphins leaping to my music, I just want music.

I gave up on flac years ago, I needed a mp3 player with lots of storage and drank the Apple kool-aid (160 gb classic). A massive flac to apple lossless conversion ensued. Fortunately most players support iPods these days.

I just sold a car that had an earlier version of the Alpine CDA-9887. It was a nice deck. Alpine hasn't even noticed that no one has blue gauges any more.

My problem is that my new car (vw gti) has a really nice looking double din head unit, and it sounds decent, but its interface is rubbish. I want to stick with double din. The options in the aftermarket have me considering a $1600 flush of money to the upgraded OEM head unit with nav just for a responsive screen.

The integration of the head unit with the rest of the interior is so complete that I am thinking I should have just gotten a Mazda. (just kidding)

 

[Brian_smith06 10+ year member]

Thanks for the responses. I was expecting to get flamed. Alpine IVA-W505?

combined with the h701 processor it is a pretty solid choice

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Eclipse 8053...noiseless, never clips.