The new JVC are active capable. Had the the new 320 and 620 but it had a buzzing I could never get to go away. I did everything to make it work. New harness, new RCAS, new grounding point for the radio and amps. It drove me crazy.
Pretty sure that is the case with every head unit using internal amp
Yep! Due to the limited linear range of the transistors used in the amplifiers! Which is why to get really clean LOUDness, you have to use an amplifer way more powerful than you will ever want to actually listen to that loud.
pioneer 2800bs has all of that and its active capable. Its the kenwood ddx 373 counterpart. Different tuning features, brighter sound, more up to date with software including spotify. Takes a bit more experience to tune and get the proper sound over the kenwood which basically has auto tune buttons for SQ tuning.
looks like it has no hd radio in the 2800 , the 3800 has hd radio,
they all have HD radio, they just forgot to add that into the advertisement. Every head modern head unit costing over 150 should have HD radio built in.
That is not necessarily a "Nerd status" and it's not just Crutchfield and Sonic that is untrustworthy. I purchased an Arc Audio KS900.6 (used) hoping that someday in the future I could go active with it (without the use of a DSP). In the manual, it states HPF is up to 5500 HZ. But, when I got the amp and looked at the back, I saw the HPF only goes up to 550 HZ. So, I called Arc Audio and they actually thought the HPF went up to 5500 HZ. I told them to look at a pic of the back of the amp. When they did, that said "Oops, I guess the manual is wrong. HPF only goes up to 550 HZ." The guy I talked to said he thought there was a 10X button on the back, but there is not. Now, in my mind, that's a pretty major blunder to be making in the manual. IN THE MANUAL!!!
kenwoods are only half active meaning front channels will have a fully active capable tweeter crossover and adjustable slope however your mids wont have a low pass, only the simple high pass. The KDC x300 is the one with such features.
yeah. I'm thinking of swaping my head unit to a 2017 double din just to get with the times and be able to play my FLAC files. Might as well since most of the pioneer ones are active capable with 13 bands of EQ and time alignment. Would be nice to watch sh*t while waiting in the car.
Its basically lossless and uncompressed. CD quality. A song is generally 75megabytes to 500 megabytes with flac. Vs 7 to 20 megabytes with 320kbps mp3s.
