should i upgrade to the DEH-P880PRS?

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

ok i pulled the trigger and bought one... the Pioneer DEH-7800MP is up for sale!

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3852188#post3852188

great unit at (i think) a great price. it'll do pretty much anything but run an active front stage.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

ok i pulled the trigger and bought one... the Pioneer DEH-7800MP is up for sale!
http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3852188#post3852188

great unit at (i think) a great price. it'll do pretty much anything but run an active front stage.

Awesome. Give us a good review.

BTW - where did you end up buying it from?

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

i bought WU501's used one for $275 shipped. he says it's in mint shape, and has everything for it, even the box it came in. he also said he has no problems with any RCA noises or anything. i should have it probably Wednesday or Thursday. i'll give a review comparing it to my current 7800, after i get some time with it.

i might try the RSD's active with it come springtime. i'd just need another small 2 channel for the tweets, some speaker wire and a set of rca wires. then i can do it. so possibly look for that in the future as well.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

i bought WU501's used one for $275 shipped. he says it's in mint shape, and has everything for it, even the box it came in. he also said he has no problems with any RCA noises or anything. i should have it probably Wednesday or Thursday. i'll give a review comparing it to my current 7800, after i get some time with it.
i might try the RSD's active with it come springtime. i'd just need another small 2 channel for the tweets, some speaker wire and a set of rca wires. then i can do it. so possibly look for that in the future as well.

Sell your 550.2 and get the 650.4 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

or if you want to be a girl you can get the 350.4 (btw - I'm getting the 350.4... I believe the birthsheet is closer to 100w per ch.)

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

Sell your 550.2 and get the 650.4 //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif
or if you want to be a girl you can get the 350.4 (btw - I'm getting the 350.4... I believe the birthsheet is closer to 100w per ch.)

i'm thinking i'll use the 550.2 for the mids and have a bunch of headroom, and get something like the ZX250.2 for the tweeters and also have a lil bit of headroom there as well. you can never have to much power.

the best option would be to get the Alpine PDX 4.150, and 600.1 but thats to much money, then i'd have to try and sell my kickers. so i'd be losing money. but i sure like the look of those PDX's. i'd really like just a killer 5 channel but i haven't found anything that does about 150x2 at 4 ohms and about 400-600 at 4ohms for a sub.

so really idk what i'm doing yet. i'm happy with a simple passive setup but i really wanna try active.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

i'm thinking i'll use the 550.2 for the mids and have a bunch of headroom, and get something like the ZX250.2 for the tweeters and also have a lil bit of headroom there as well. you can never have to much power.
the best option would be to get the Alpine PDX 4.150, and 600.1 but thats to much money, then i'd have to try and sell my kickers. so i'd be losing money. but i sure like the look of those PDX's. i'd really like just a killer 5 channel but i haven't found anything that does about 150x2 at 4 ohms and about 400-600 at 4ohms for a sub.

so really idk what i'm doing yet. i'm happy with a simple passive setup but i really wanna try active.

Look into the ZX700.5. My old KX700.5 birthsheet was 916 watts ~ 182x2 @ 4ohms + 498x1 @ 2ohms. The ZX's should put out a bit more power than that.

EDIT - just saw you need 400-600 at 4ohms for the sub channel.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

Look into the ZX700.5. My old KX700.5 birthsheet was 916 watts ~ 182x2 @ 4ohms + 498x1 @ 2ohms. The ZX's should put out a bit more power than that.
EDIT - just saw you need 400-600 at 4ohms for the sub channel.

thats the problem. nobody has enough power for a sub at 4 ohms. i have no idea what i'm going to do yet. i'd like a killer 5 channel, or a big 4 channel i guess.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

thats the problem. nobody has enough power for a sub at 4 ohms. i have no idea what i'm going to do yet. i'd like a killer 5 channel, or a big 4 channel i guess.

ZX850.4

It would probably be easiest to keep what you have and get a small 2-channel. This leaves you with the amplification to go active later on down the road. I will admit it is nice having all of my amplification in one chassis... that will end soon.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

ZX850.4
It would probably be easiest to keep what you have and get a small 2-channel. This leaves you with the amplification to go active later on down the road. I will admit it is nice having all of my amplification in one chassis... that will end soon.

i think i might just add a ZX250.2 to what i already have. run the tweeters off of the 250.2.

85 watts at 4 ohms per channel is enough for probably almost any tweeters right?

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

i think i might just add a ZX250.2 to what i already have. run the tweeters off of the 250.2.
85 watts at 4 ohms per channel is enough for probably almost any tweeters right?

Definitely, and like you mentioned, headroom is a very nice thing to have.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

none of this will be til springtime. i'm just brain storming. i'll have to get creative trying to mount 3 amps. i'm gonna have to build some sort of funky amp rack.

 

[UCF52 10+ year member]

none of this will be til springtime. i'm just brain storming. i'll have to get creative trying to mount 3 amps. i'm gonna have to build some sort of funky amp rack.

IIRC your 750.1 and 550.2 took up the whole backside of the rear seat... yea, that should be fun //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

After reading that thread over on elite, I think I am also going to look into a new deck (prob the 880 or the 9887). Having all of that control makes me jealous.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

IIRC your 750.1 and 550.2 took up the whole backside of the rear seat... yea, that should be fun //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
After reading that thread over on elite, I think I am also going to look into a new deck (prob the 880 or the 9887). Having all of that control makes me jealous.

yea idk what i'm gonna do with amp mounting yet. the 550.2 is so big. lol i'll figure something out.

did u get my PM? i sent you one asking what your doing with your system. i see you have new stuff coming.