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<blockquote data-quote="West" data-source="post: 7846208" data-attributes="member: 638770"><p>My feeling would be that the 80prs would probably give you better SQ, it's newer and its Pioneers second tier SQ system. A lot of the specs that are given don't mean a whole lot and are there to sell the product. The specs I like to look at are in the back of the decks manual and are often not otherwise advertised. You can have a HU with a 16 bit processor whoop one with a 24 or 28 bit processor simply due to the 16 bit one being developed by a better engineer. In theory you should be able to get more detail out of a 28bit processor than a 24 bit one, how much you will actually notice this is questionable. It sometimes just comes down to personal preference.</p><p></p><p>I like to look at signal to noise and other factors 110dB kenwood vs 105 pioneer, if you care about SQ you will probably be using CD's or larger music files on USB/SD cards. Personally I have found that CD's usually give the best possible SQ on decks because of how the data is retrieved and processed. That Kenwood has a very nice CD player on it, possibly better than the Pioneer (but Pioneer did not go into detail about the CD player in the manual like Kenwood did).</p><p></p><p>Where the Pioneer will win definitely is on functionality and its user interface. I have been playing around with a bunch of different decks the last few months and I can tell a big difference in the SQ from different decks. Odds are if you had two identical decks 1 with 4v pre-outs and another with 5v pre-outs I doubt that anyone could really tell the difference unless you had a very noisy environment. How many bands an EQ has for me isn't that important, how the deck can auto-tune and do auto-time alignment however would be. The other really important stuff has to do with the audio processor, but you cant gauge it purely on bit count.</p><p></p><p>If you feel like your system needs a lift pop in the Pioneer, worst case you don't like it and have to pay a 15% restocking fee.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="West, post: 7846208, member: 638770"] My feeling would be that the 80prs would probably give you better SQ, it's newer and its Pioneers second tier SQ system. A lot of the specs that are given don't mean a whole lot and are there to sell the product. The specs I like to look at are in the back of the decks manual and are often not otherwise advertised. You can have a HU with a 16 bit processor whoop one with a 24 or 28 bit processor simply due to the 16 bit one being developed by a better engineer. In theory you should be able to get more detail out of a 28bit processor than a 24 bit one, how much you will actually notice this is questionable. It sometimes just comes down to personal preference. I like to look at signal to noise and other factors 110dB kenwood vs 105 pioneer, if you care about SQ you will probably be using CD's or larger music files on USB/SD cards. Personally I have found that CD's usually give the best possible SQ on decks because of how the data is retrieved and processed. That Kenwood has a very nice CD player on it, possibly better than the Pioneer (but Pioneer did not go into detail about the CD player in the manual like Kenwood did). Where the Pioneer will win definitely is on functionality and its user interface. I have been playing around with a bunch of different decks the last few months and I can tell a big difference in the SQ from different decks. Odds are if you had two identical decks 1 with 4v pre-outs and another with 5v pre-outs I doubt that anyone could really tell the difference unless you had a very noisy environment. How many bands an EQ has for me isn't that important, how the deck can auto-tune and do auto-time alignment however would be. The other really important stuff has to do with the audio processor, but you cant gauge it purely on bit count. If you feel like your system needs a lift pop in the Pioneer, worst case you don't like it and have to pay a 15% restocking fee. [/QUOTE]
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