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<blockquote data-quote="Jroo" data-source="post: 7268201" data-attributes="member: 574112"><p>We have to face that in many ways car audio is dead. The OEM stuff has basically killed the aftermarket. The ave. joe is not going to rip up his car to put in a deck that has half the features his factory touch screen nav and ipod control unit does. Now tack on the fact that his factory deck contains heat/AC, steering wheel control, controls the kids factory mounted DVD player in the back, and has bluetooth so his wife can talk on the phone. Who is going to pay big bucks and installation cost to replace something that really only gets them close to where they started. When you look at the heads offered, they are either super cheap entry level stuff or high end audiophile stuff. The guy that is selling his car or his 8 years old head unit died, buys the entry level stuff. Then you have guys like us that are still in the hobby and look at the more expensive stuff like the pioneer premier heads or the alpine 9887. The issue with the high end stuff is they will sell like 10 of those this year and companies cant justity keeping the lines when that happens. Walk into a car audio store and you notice they arent exactly tripping over clients in the store. My local stores are dead and the inventory they keep gets smaller and smaller every time i visit.&nbsp; I used to go in to see the new stuff coming out and more and more it is easier to look online. The stores around me simply dont keep the stuff in anymore, nobody is buying it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Jroo, post: 7268201, member: 574112"] We have to face that in many ways car audio is dead. The OEM stuff has basically killed the aftermarket. The ave. joe is not going to rip up his car to put in a deck that has half the features his factory touch screen nav and ipod control unit does. Now tack on the fact that his factory deck contains heat/AC, steering wheel control, controls the kids factory mounted DVD player in the back, and has bluetooth so his wife can talk on the phone. Who is going to pay big bucks and installation cost to replace something that really only gets them close to where they started. When you look at the heads offered, they are either super cheap entry level stuff or high end audiophile stuff. The guy that is selling his car or his 8 years old head unit died, buys the entry level stuff. Then you have guys like us that are still in the hobby and look at the more expensive stuff like the pioneer premier heads or the alpine 9887. The issue with the high end stuff is they will sell like 10 of those this year and companies cant justity keeping the lines when that happens. Walk into a car audio store and you notice they arent exactly tripping over clients in the store. My local stores are dead and the inventory they keep gets smaller and smaller every time i visit. I used to go in to see the new stuff coming out and more and more it is easier to look online. The stores around me simply dont keep the stuff in anymore, nobody is buying it. [/QUOTE]

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