New to Audio, Need Some Help on HU...

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

Ok I am building me a clean little turboed tuner car. I can build a car from ground up but I know nothing about audio in a car. I am looking for a good Headunit for my car, would love for the face to be clean and black with all red buttons. I know alpine is a good company for headunits but I dont know what is good for a headunit to have and what is not. Price aint much of an option since I love my music. Thanks

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[grimreper912003 5,000+ posts]

It depends on what medias you listen to you music. Im pretty sure you would like an Ipod able deck, but what kind of features are you looking at using?

 

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

I would love to be able to hook my ipod up to it and save me from making 5 million cds. Other than that I dont know what other features come on a HU, I really never have messed around with audio in a car cause it just confuses me everytime I try.

 

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

anyone?

 

[tee 10+ year member]

Do you still want to use CDs?

 

[andrewibk 10+ year member]

I have a cda-9885 and i love it. Im pretty sure youll love it also. It illumintaes red and blue at night, or all RED since you like that.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

I'm guessing you don't know how to toy with 7-band equalizers, right?

My Pioneer DEH P6900UB has USB input, 7-Band EQ, sub controls, 2 aux in, and detachable face. However, it's silver and blue lights.

As far as the color thing, it's gunna be hard to find a decent HU that's both black and red...

I mean, I think Sony Xplod HU is Red and black... but NEVER buy anything Sony. They're extremely poor quality.

Go to http://www.woofersetc.com http://www.ikesound.com or http://www.crutchfield.com and look at their selection of HU's, see what HUs you like cosmetically and we'll be happy to tell you if they're worth the $$$.

 

[tee 10+ year member]

I don't think you should make your final decision based on looks though. You will ending up listening to your music more, not staring at the HU anyways.

 

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

ok i am very picky sorry but it has to be red buttons. i am not staring at it all the time but it will bother me more than anything if it doesnt match the rest of my interior. the cda-9885 is nice i seen it at work the other day in a thunderbird lol. but i didnt know it u could change the blue buttons to red. is it a good quality and not extremely expensive HU, the 9885?

 

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

what about the Alpine iDA-X200 or X300? they any good if not I will prolly just go with the Alpine 9885

 

[andrewibk 10+ year member]

yeah the 9885 is great quality. feels nice and not cheap, killer display. Sounds great. you can pick it up at onlinecarstereo for around 200

 

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

not cheap? for 200 that is cheap to me seeing as a year ago i spend 1400 on a indash tv lol.

 

[mile098 10+ year member]

its all about personal prefrences, I for one am never going alpine again, and as far as i'm concerned their last half decent deck was 9835. i'd reccomend going JVC or panasonic, they have that all rounder sound. panasonics are a bit shy on bass though.

 

[McCurry2k8 10+ year member]

what turned u off alpine?

 

[mile098 10+ year member]

the highs, no matter what tweet i used, from pioneer, to phase evolution, dls, whatever its so f***ing annoying. i tried killing it on the Xover, EQ, different slopes, no matter what i did it always emphasises aggressive higs. but thats just me