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Kenwood Excelon vs XXV
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<blockquote data-quote="Prowler573" data-source="post: 1446474" data-attributes="member: 561023"><p>This is information I would suggest I'd have never gotten anywhere else.</p><p> For those XXV-01D users that plan on using the unit as a dead-head, however, Eclipse's advantage there is eliminated. The internal amp in mine has never been powered. After installing it before I ever turned the unit on I got into the Standby Mode menu and turned deck power off. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p><p> The better cabling is one of the points touted in the Kenwood's advertising material. It's pointed out that the 25th Anniversary gear has better preamp output / auxiliary input OFC cabling than the rest of its e<span style="color: Red">X</span>celon brethren.</p><p> The deck that my 01D replaced was the first with Kenwood's "AutoSlide" faceplate design - the KDC-X679 and I really liked it on the older one. I like it just as much on this one. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p><p> Just to let you know, I'm madly scribbling notes here. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Always nice to have some solid ammunition in my never-ending battle in defense of Kenwood //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif</p><p> I am too. Admittedly Kenwood dropped the ball there for awhile and whatever created their apparent lapse in quality control (or even the appearance that they truly cared about what grade of product was leaving their factories en route to more than a few ultimately dissatisfied customers) came back to bite them in the backside pretty severely. Public opinion is a very powerful force that can work greatly in your advantage or irresistably against you. Make one customer happy and they'll tell two friends about it. Make that same customer <strong>un</strong>happy and they'll tell twenty.</p><p>And to a certain extent the manner in which it is displayed to you as well.</p><p></p><p>There is exactly <strong>one</strong> station here that broadcasts RDS information. Somewhat annoying to me to have this deck that will do all this neat stuff and my locality is too backwater to implement it. Akin to my disappointment that the SWS functions in my radar detector are useless in my neck of the woods. An interesting drawback to the RDS information reception (to me anyway) is that it overrides user-custom station naming. I like to program whatever nickname a station is known by locally (ergo 98 Rocks, The Mix, The Zoo, etc etc) into the deck for my own purposes and I have done so since the first HU I owned that was capable of it.</p><p></p><p>The one station here that broadcasts the RDS info (an urban station, 99.7 FM, call letters KMJJ) will display KMJJ-FM no matter how I label it or how many times I reconfirm my choice of Band + Freq + SNPS for the display format. *meh* A minor annoyance but it's there nonetheless.</p><p></p><p> The last HU I owned with no radio preset buttons, strangly enough, was the <em>very first</em> aftermarket stereo I ever owned. (A Coustic RX504 dual-shaft cassette deck) It took a bit of getting used to visually but like I always have I set the tuner movement to "Auto 2" and simply scroll through my presets. As such I don't particularly miss buttons I never used anyway. Add to that being able to input direct frequency choices from the remote as well as access your presets with a single button-touch and the on-deck presets are nothing more than redundant anyway, I reckon.</p><p> I agree but some users seem to enjoy it on this and other eXcelon decks that are so equipped so I reckon it isn't a total waste seeing as it does appeal to some. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif</p><p> What does that do, exactly? Never heard of it (no direct experience with an Eclipse HU)</p><p>As that is all I run is a passive setup and having no plans for going active anytime soon (if ever) it's more than good enough for this user. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif</p><p>I look forward to your further critique. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prowler573, post: 1446474, member: 561023"] This is information I would suggest I'd have never gotten anywhere else. For those XXV-01D users that plan on using the unit as a dead-head, however, Eclipse's advantage there is eliminated. The internal amp in mine has never been powered. After installing it before I ever turned the unit on I got into the Standby Mode menu and turned deck power off. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] The better cabling is one of the points touted in the Kenwood's advertising material. It's pointed out that the 25th Anniversary gear has better preamp output / auxiliary input OFC cabling than the rest of its e[COLOR=Red]X[/COLOR]celon brethren. The deck that my 01D replaced was the first with Kenwood's "AutoSlide" faceplate design - the KDC-X679 and I really liked it on the older one. I like it just as much on this one. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] Just to let you know, I'm madly scribbling notes here. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] Always nice to have some solid ammunition in my never-ending battle in defense of Kenwood [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif[/IMG] I am too. Admittedly Kenwood dropped the ball there for awhile and whatever created their apparent lapse in quality control (or even the appearance that they truly cared about what grade of product was leaving their factories en route to more than a few ultimately dissatisfied customers) came back to bite them in the backside pretty severely. Public opinion is a very powerful force that can work greatly in your advantage or irresistably against you. Make one customer happy and they'll tell two friends about it. Make that same customer [B]un[/B]happy and they'll tell twenty. And to a certain extent the manner in which it is displayed to you as well. There is exactly [B]one[/B] station here that broadcasts RDS information. Somewhat annoying to me to have this deck that will do all this neat stuff and my locality is too backwater to implement it. Akin to my disappointment that the SWS functions in my radar detector are useless in my neck of the woods. An interesting drawback to the RDS information reception (to me anyway) is that it overrides user-custom station naming. I like to program whatever nickname a station is known by locally (ergo 98 Rocks, The Mix, The Zoo, etc etc) into the deck for my own purposes and I have done so since the first HU I owned that was capable of it. The one station here that broadcasts the RDS info (an urban station, 99.7 FM, call letters KMJJ) will display KMJJ-FM no matter how I label it or how many times I reconfirm my choice of Band + Freq + SNPS for the display format. *meh* A minor annoyance but it's there nonetheless. The last HU I owned with no radio preset buttons, strangly enough, was the [I]very first[/I] aftermarket stereo I ever owned. (A Coustic RX504 dual-shaft cassette deck) It took a bit of getting used to visually but like I always have I set the tuner movement to "Auto 2" and simply scroll through my presets. As such I don't particularly miss buttons I never used anyway. Add to that being able to input direct frequency choices from the remote as well as access your presets with a single button-touch and the on-deck presets are nothing more than redundant anyway, I reckon. I agree but some users seem to enjoy it on this and other eXcelon decks that are so equipped so I reckon it isn't a total waste seeing as it does appeal to some. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif[/IMG] What does that do, exactly? Never heard of it (no direct experience with an Eclipse HU) As that is all I run is a passive setup and having no plans for going active anytime soon (if ever) it's more than good enough for this user. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] I look forward to your further critique. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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