Racing head units

[daniel1458]

Hello, my name is Daniel.

This is my first post and I hope you will guys help me with my questions. I come from gtrcanada.ca a Skyline forum in Canada.

I am more mechanical guy, rather then audiphile. But I have basic ideas how audo systems work and how to wire it up (a simple set up) . I am not a audo guru like most of you here.

I am shopping for a deck for my skyline. My car still has japanese deck, so I can't listen to any radio. (Japanese tuning range is 87 and down)

The thing is: our cars (or any lowered or sports car) are very jumpy and harsh. Specially with my racing coilovers, Cuscostabilizer bars, etc... A small or big pathwhole, or road crack, will jerks a car and most players will skip. Mine does. I hate that.

So... Question one:

Do you know if there are decks wich are more or less designed for harsh road use, or racing? Or known to be very ressistant to skipping and jamping?

Question two:

I really want to put a DVD unit with flip-up display. How durable is the flip-up mechanism against harsh roads and bumps? And again, which unit will be most durable?

Thank you.

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[Fusion_FREAK 10+ year member]

First of all, pics of car. I love Skylines.

My Alpine doesn't skip, and I've hit alot of pot holes and rough roads. I have a CDA-9883

 

[daniel1458]

Some at the meets and some in my garage: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I love it too.

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[Fusion_FREAK 10+ year member]

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Nice car man, very nice car.

Yea, like I said, you can't go wrong with an Alpine, mine has never givien me trouble.

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

Most head units these days have oversampling and buffer caches so when the mechanical parts of the cd player actually DO skip, the data has already been buffered so there is no inturruption in music. Unless you flip your car or something.

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

i know fusion headunits are awesome when it comes to skipping and such.

 

[Savstyle 10+ year member]

Most head units these days have oversampling and buffer caches so when the mechanical parts of the cd player actually DO skip, the data has already been buffered so there is no inturruption in music. Unless you flip your car or something.

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If you want a dvd unit id look into a double din since theres less chance of somthing coming lose in the flipout mechinism.

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

yeah. i've never really had a problem with the recent decks i've had. the jvc avx i have now has never once skipped. it even played through an accident and never skipped.

 

[SPY 5,000+ posts]

Use an Ipod or other mp3 player and you won't have to worry about it.

As for a flip out, I wouldn't do it. I had one in my car with an aggressive drop and every time I hit a bump it would shake the screen out of position.

Is that an R33 Skyline?

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

Some at the meets and some in my garage: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I love it too.

By danil1458, shot with DSLR-A100 at 2008-08-27

By danil1458, shot with DSC-S600 at 2008-08-27

By danil1458, shot with DSC-S600 at 2008-08-27

By danil1458, shot with DSC-S600 at 2008-08-27

speak of the devil! lol, i just saw one today about an hour ago

 

[daniel1458]

Is that an R33 Skyline?

NO it's R32.

We JUST got permision to start bringing R33s, two month ago. The R33 are going to be regular GTS, models. You can't bring top of the line R33 GTR for next two years.

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

use an ipod or get satellite radio

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

My 880 Pioneer Premier I could take off a cliff with out skipping it. Loved that deck and will miss it!

 

[JonMR2turbo 10+ year member]

I have an MR2 with a somewhat stiff suspension. My 800prs has never skipped, even on rough Chicago roads.

 

[ChrisUlrich 10+ year member]

I have coilovers on my car and it's super stiff and unforgiving. I live in Jersey so they're potholes alllll over the place. My Eclipse AVX5000 hasn't skipped once so far. Also, so far so good on the flip up touch screen display.