Looking for a headunit with certain specs

[BlackMesa]

I recently got new speakers, two eclipse se8355's for my doors and two se8375's for my rear. The headunit i have currently is a dual xdm-6820, it was good for my stock speakers, but not all that good for my new ones. The sound is a definite improvement over my stocks, but on songs where noise is minimal, you can hear a static coming from the tweeter of all four speakers. I'm 99 percent sure it's because my headunit doesn't have a crossover and/or has a high Total Harmonic Distortion rating. Looking at desctriptions of all kinds of websites i could find no mension of either of these for my headunit, so therefore im assuming they're so bad that dual does not disclose this information. I've been doing my homework, and to complement my speakers i'd like to get a new headunit with an RMS ratting of 18 to 30 per speaker, the higher the better. I'd also like to have a signal to noise ratio of 95db or higher. From what i've read, i'd also want the internal amp to have a THD of 1 percent or lower. It would also be ideal for the headunit to have a decent crossover. And also it needs to be able to play mp3's off of cd and have aux input for playing an mp3 player off of. If you guys have any recommendations as to a headunit that meets these requirements, or perhaps even one that doesn't, i'd really appreciate the input //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.

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[Frankensuby 10+ year member]

Kenwood KDC-X590.

Relevant Specs and features:

Bluetooth Capable

USB for Mass storage Item (16 Gigs or more = 45 second load time)

iPod ready

3 4-volt Pre-outs

22 RMS per channel

AUX input

AAC/MP3/WMA ready, NO DVD MP3's though.

1 disc in dash.

110 DB S/N (excellent, FYI)

Easy tuned HPF, LPF, Sub slope, etc...

Could not find THD, but Kenwoods are praised for their clarity. 143.99$ at Crutchfield with a 2 year Manufacturer warranty.

 

[BMW Sidewayz 10+ year member]

Yes Kenwood, I've been researching for 3 weeks now and Kenwood is the one on top of my list! Good bang 4 ur buck and good quility I was surprised!

the eclipse -the best sound quality but 2 expensive

pioneer pisses me off

clarion is ok

alpine is ok

Kenwood really sold itself to me, SRS, Dolby Prologic. 5v preout and Well priced super pixels, screen resolution.

 

[Mattism78 10+ year member]

Might want to post your price range as well. There's a ton that fit your criteria but price would help eliminate a lot.

 

[MBrock4u 10+ year member]

Nice to see you have ben doing your homework. Thats a good thing. I think you would be happy with any of the Kenwood Excelon line. They are amazingly clear. I really love mine. Have had no issues at all with it. Wonderful tweeking abilities for great sq.

 

[BlackMesa]

Hi, thanks for the input guys, i've come accross an interesting headunit, the Panasonic CQ-C9800U. A review of it is here http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/S-7Krch11OWaC/reviews/20040406/panasonic_cqc9800u.html?page=1

Apparently it uses some new digital type amp that kicks out 60 watts rms per channel, however, if you look on page 2 you see a note that according to the cea-2006 power rating standard the headunit actually kicks out 31 watts rms. Does that mean i would be safe to use this headunit with my speakers keeping in mind the front ones are made for up to 30 watts rms and the backs are good up to 40 watts rms. The advantage of the new amp techknowledgy is a total harmonic distortion of only .01 percent, whereas normally it's 5 percent on standard headunits. And by the way my price range is up to 300 dollars. Let me know what you guys think of the headunit and i'd really like to know about the rms ratting thing, because i'd like to get as much rms as possible, but i don't wanna blow my speakers. Thanks for your guy's input so far, it's much appreciated //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.

 

[Brad H. 10+ year member]

You can get the Pioneer P880PRS in that price range.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

Yes Kenwood, I've been researching for 3 weeks now and Kenwood is the one on top of my list! Good bang 4 ur buck and good quility I was surprised!
the eclipse -the best sound quality but 2 expensive

pioneer pisses me off

clarion is ok

alpine is ok

Kenwood really sold itself to me, SRS, Dolby Prologic. 5v preout and Well priced super pixels, screen resolution.

Now if that isn't a blanket statement I don't know what is.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif