Looking at Head Units

[nineball 10+ year member]

jvc makes some very nice units. i liked both of the ones i had.

do a search for active. i don't think its anything you will be trying soon, so for now just read up on it in a thread.

yes that is hotswapping. grounding the inputs does help but i have only read about his. never owned a pioneer.

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

[q]yes that is hotswapping. grounding the inputs does help but i have only read about his. never owned a pioneer.[/q]

Well that's easy enough to avoid.

[q]do a search for active. i don't think its anything you will be trying soon, so for now just read up on it in a thread.[/q]

Once I get some work on stuff done I'll look more into it.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Don't be scared to try a JVC unit. I was skeptical at first too, but ended up doing the JVC Arsenal 7500, which is 5volts, has 7band EQ and seperate subwoofer control and sounds as good if not better than my 880, which had a ton of EQuing options.

If you want more EQuing options, then get the 8500 one, which you could go active with if you choose too. Both very nice HU's for the price. I picked mine up on eghey for 150 and the 8500 can be had for 180 when I was looking.

Also can DL music into a thumbdrive, and load as many pics and backrounds as you want with the image converter, which is nice. Not to mention it looks very classy.

 

[jdmferio13 10+ year member]

Don't be scared to try a JVC unit. I was skeptical at first too, but ended up doing the JVC Arsenal 7500, which is 5volts, has 7band EQ and seperate subwoofer control and sounds as good if not better than my 880, which had a ton of EQuing options.
If you want more EQuing options, then get the 8500 one, which you could go active with if you choose too. Both very nice HU's for the price. I picked mine up on eghey for 150 and the 8500 can be had for 180 when I was looking.

Also can DL music into a thumbdrive, and load as many pics and backrounds as you want with the image converter, which is nice. Not to mention it looks very classy.

hey they are very good hu's i am thinking og getting one myself been reading reviews on them for a week nice.Only thing i dont like is they are not bluetooth enabled

 

[TheTempest 10+ year member]

hey they are very good hu's i am thinking og getting one myself been reading reviews on them for a week nice.Only thing i dont like is they are not bluetooth enabled

im running a JVC KD-R900

comes with bluetooth.

best HU ive ever had honestly... tons of features and price isnt too bad either.

you could pick one up for about 190

well worth the money

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

I just bought an Eclipse 8051, gonna hook it up tonight. Should be a much better unit.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Much better than what unit?

Eclipse is nice though.

 

[ejschultz 10+ year member]

I've heard the term so many times and it may be n00bish not to know, but what does "active setup" mean? Does it mean running speakers off of the stereo's internal amp?

To properly answer this question, active crossovers are crossovers used before amplification. Passive crossovers are crossovers used after amplification. There's a really good sticky about this in the speakers section. I suggest reading it.

Also, I'm using a pioneer premier p800prs and it's probably the best hu I've ever had. As far as the pico fuse issue goes, don't hot swap amps. If you do blow it, it's an easy fix.

If you properly tuned and powered your speakers, you wouldn't need all that crap in the back. You did say you only use one pair of subs at a time so I guess that's not too much of an issue other than space.

As far as a 24 bit DAC, it's really only going to make a big difference on original copy CDs. It doesn't help too much if at all with compressed music.

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

Better than my 9883.

I know what an Active Crossover is, I didn't know "Active" was short for active crossover though. I just go passive because it's easier and cheaper and I'm not sure how much of a difference it would make for me to go active or what kind of crossovers to use.

Speakers are properly powered and pretty well tuned, but I always like more power for treble. I could overpower the speakers which wouldn't be good, or I could get louder speakers which might not be as clear, but adding more is just easier for me.