Need good SQ head unit

[eviltuna7]

Hi. I was looking for a sweet head unit with great SQ. Looking nice is also something i want. looking to spend around $500. I was thinking of the Pioneer DEH-9200R so lemme know what u think of that or any other ideas you have. The system im putting together will look something like this:

Speakers: CDT ES-620 component

Amp - Hifonics Zeus zx6000 2 channel, and U.S. acoustics USX600D class D

Sub - Infinity Kappa Perfect 12.1D

So gimme your ideas for a nice hu. Thanks

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[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Spend about 300 on a source unit and then get yourself a nice EQ...

Maybe look into an Alpine 9815, 7894, or maybe something from Eclipse.

 

[outbacksport 10+ year member]

Eclipse CD8053 $500

The top model in Eclipse's CD Tuner/Receiver product category, the CD8053 demonstrates just how advanced mobile audio state of the art can be today. Optimized to extract the full potential from referace quality digital audio source material, the CD8053's newly engineered all digital circuitry is in a class of its own.

Balanced outputs

High voltage 16V/8V and low impedance outputs

All digital circuitry

STAR DSP (newly designed Digital Signal Processor)

24-bit advanced multi-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter

CD-R/CD-RW compatibility

MP3 playback using optional ECLIPSE Commander Advance

Full dot VF display

Power tilting front panel

Digital input

Auxiliary input

 

[VitViper 10+ year member]

I've had the Alpine CDA-7995 (ripped off by some A$$hole$). It is a competition deck, so I had no choice to but to buy an amp for my speakers //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif I got an alpine mrp-f200 . I can now swear to the difference an amp makes when cranking the volume up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif Perfect sound! w00t! Now.. that deck's gone. I got a CDA 9815. The deck itself is a bit nicer, and it IS a 2003 model, so all the bugs I found in the 7995 are not there //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif (fast forwarding mp3's on the 7995 took longer then listening to the song ). I'm in the process of replacing the amp I fried for my subs, so I'm using the CDA 9815's internal amp to run my speakers. The SQ is quite nice. But I miss running my speakers off of the f200 (which is running two 12" type-rs heheh).

 

[awestone05 10+ year member]

i'm an alpine man personally, along with many others on this board. you won't be dissapointed with any of their decks. for $550 you can buy the cda-7998... i'm sort of biased if you hadn't noticed //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[drasik 10+ year member]

i'm an alpine man personally, along with many others on this board. you won't be dissapointed with any of their decks. for $550 you can buy the cda-7998... i'm sort of biased if you hadn't noticed //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

totally pleased with my Apline 9815, SQ is great and features are nuff.

 

[xjmadness 10+ year member]

totally pleased with my Apline 9815, SQ is great and features are nuff.

How can SQ be good from a HU internal amp? They blow....sounds quiet and distorted

 

[awestone05 10+ year member]

maybe he isn't using the internal amp... i agree though, which is why i decided on the 7998. didn't feel the need to have that int. amp in there taking up space and not being used. but, that's just my opinion

 

[VitViper 10+ year member]

I'm glad I got the 9815 w/ the internal amp. Otherwsie I'd have no bass rigth now as I fried my sub amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif it's nice to have the internal amp as a backup, but I don't use it unless I have to //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[awestone05 10+ year member]

lol, whatever works //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

just buy an eclipse and get it over with

 

[VitViper 10+ year member]

Just buy the alpine and get it over with

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

just buy an eclipse and get it over with

Get off the Eclipse high already...

Any comparable priced Alpine/Pioneer can sound just as good, if not better than any Eclipse deck...

 

[awestone05 10+ year member]

amen!!!!!!

 

[spyd3r 10+ year member]

Save your cash on the deck and spend the money where it counts....

You already got killer components picked out......but the Inifinty perfect sub has good SQ but...no balls //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif And the Amps you got there don't belong in a car with Eurosports //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif. Spend $300 the most on a deck.....its only a cd player. Then spend your hard earned cash on other things...

Remeber the thing that determines your SQ is speakers (subs are speakers too) > positioning > processors > amps > linedrivers > head units

Just trying to help you out.......so take a look at your parts list again. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif