Looking for a head unit to finish my setup

[1hawaii50 10+ year member]

I currently have a set of Polk MOMO MMC6500's in the front doors, and a set of Polk MOMO MMC690's in the rear deck of my 2007 Altima Sedan. I am powering the speakers via a Navone NE-774V to a Kicker ZX650.4 off of the factory head unit. I am running the front components passive off of the included crossover, and I am running the rear 3 ways off of the included crossover. I am looking for a nice head unit to complete my install. I don't currently have a sub, and may or may not add a small powered sub in the future (my wife already wants to kill me for tearing apart the new car...she just doesn't understand //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif). If I do add a sub down the line, it would probably be only a 6/8" powered sub...can't afford to lose too much trunk space! I am looking at H/U such as:

Kenwood Excelon KDC-X792

Kenwood Excelon KDC-X991

Eclipse CD3200

Pioneer DEH-P7000BT

Pioneer DEH-P800PRS

Alpine CDA-9886

Alpine CDA-9887

Clarion DXZ785USB

I don't know that I will ever go "active" as I can't afford to lose any more trunk space for another amp. We listen to mostly CD's and radio, neither my wife nor I own an I-POD (yet?). I want a good, quality, "crystal-clear" head unit. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I don't mind paying a little more for a better unit, as I'd rather buy it the first time around, than buy a cheaper one, be disappointed, and end up buying the more expensive one anyway!

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[Hoodlum007 10+ year member]

The Pioneers are good, Alpine 9887 and you should see if you like the Nak CD400. The Nak is a sick sound quality HU.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

Personally I'd buy the 9887 and run it active off the zx650.4 for the front stage.

 

[1hawaii50 10+ year member]

Personally I'd buy the 9887 and run it active off the zx650.4 for the front stage.

OK BURTON,

I'm here to learn, so please help me out. If I run the front comps active, then I use all four channels on the fronts, one each for the tweets, and one each for the mids, right? I would then use the H/U for the crossover. What do I do with the rear 6X9's? I'm afraid you're going to have to spell it out for me //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/cool.gif.3bcaf8f141236c00f8044d07150e34f7.gif!

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

I'd ditch your backstage. If you are running a nice set of comps up front, they really are unnecessary. I know, you think it sounds like it won't sound good, but trust me. As soon as you buy a nice pair of speakers for the front, you have no need for rears. Im not even running active and I don't run rears and couldn't be happier. I'd say try it out, and if you don't like it, just run the rears off of the wiring harness in the head unit.

But yes, if I was you I would either just run each front speaker off of one channel on the 4 ch. or if you want, you can bridge the 4 ch and have like 350 to each mid (don't have to run that power) and use the other amp for your tweets (don't know how much power that thing puts out though.

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

i have a 7800.. not BT though. which i'm assuming there is 7800 w/bluetooth?

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

i have a 7800.. not BT though. which i'm assuming there is 7800 w/bluetooth?

Yeah... I think the bluetooth is kind of useless on decks, but i guess some people like it haha...

 

[1hawaii50 10+ year member]

I'd ditch your backstage. If you are running a nice set of comps up front, they really are unnecessary. I know, you think it sounds like it won't sound good, but trust me. As soon as you buy a nice pair of speakers for the front, you have no need for rears. Im not even running active and I don't run rears and couldn't be happier. I'd say try it out, and if you don't like it, just run the rears off of the wiring harness in the head unit.
But yes, if I was you I would either just run each front speaker off of one channel on the 4 ch. or if you want, you can bridge the 4 ch and have like 350 to each mid (don't have to run that power) and use the other amp for your tweets (don't know how much power that thing puts out though.

I kind of need to keep the rear speakers for the kids (4 and 9). Occasionally it's nice to send the sound to the rear so my wife and I can actually hold a conversation.

 

[xxBURT0Nxx 10+ year member]

Run it off of head unit power then and install a switch on your remote wire for the amp so you can just shut it off and then have no sound up front and hu power in the rear.... that's what I would do, but maybe others would have an easier solution??? I guess you could always just use the fader in the deck if you wanted.