Why do Eclipse HU's cost less than Alpines?........

[Slaugh 10+ year member]

love my 9815 aswell, but willing to experience with eclipse cd8454 and alpines 7998 and 7878

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

The first deck i owned was eclipse 5303 in like 96-97. Was a great dead head 5 volt, flip face until it was stolen. Incidentally i saw one for sale just last week. I'm sure it wasn't mine, but the fcking thing was still going. IIRC they wanted $199 for it at a car audio place.

I had some alpine flip face that got caught on the trim piece and burned its motor out the first time it powered on.

i now have a 8454 i picked up on ebay a while back. Works great. If i could pick up a 8455 for

 

[Slaugh 10+ year member]

The first deck i owned was eclipse 5303 in like 96-97. Was a great dead head 5 volt, flip face until it was stolen. Incidentally i saw one for sale just last week. I'm sure it wasn't mine, but the fcking thing was still going. IIRC they wanted $199 for it at a car audio place. I had some alpine flip face that got caught on the trim piece and burned its motor out the first time it powered on.

i now have a 8454 i picked up on ebay a while back. Works great. If i could pick up a 8455 for

heya buddy.. have you ever listened to alpine 7998 or 7878? if you have, how do you compare it's SQ to cd8454 one?

just curious to know, but is the SQ of my 9815 still good compared to the one from eclipse 8454?

hell i dont find anyone with these hus to give it a listen //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

If you go over to CarSound you can check out the industry section, where a lot of shop owners/workers have talked about the QC/warranty issues they've had with Eclipse.

IMO, you see people talking more about Alpine then Eclipse because Alpine is more commercially available- only places you could have found Eclipse were at shops- although Eclipse is now with CC. Alpine you can find just about everywhere.

Alpine still makes a great radio compared to what's really out there on the mainstream market.

 

[thefunkybunch 10+ year member]

eclipse got their bad wrap in the 97-98ish model years. they had some skipping issues, and in people's opinions that seemed to stick with them, even though that problem has long been resolved and they have one of the best cd mechanisms on the market as far as reading through scratched cd's and not skipping. i've owned 4 or 5 eclipse decks, an 5440, 5441, 5442, 8051, 8061, and never had a single issue with any of them. i could literally kick a cd down the street on its face, pop it in, and it would play and not skip once.

i currently own an alpine because i like to keep in my car what we sell at the shop, but i still love eclipse decks. if we carried them, i'd have one over alpine in a heartbeat

 

[Mr. Nipples 10+ year member]

Eclipse FTW

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

eclipse got their bad wrap in the 97-98ish model years. they had some skipping issues, and in people's opinions that seemed to stick with them, even though that problem has long been resolved and they have one of the best cd mechanisms on the market as far as reading through scratched cd's and not skipping. i've owned 4 or 5 eclipse decks, an 5440, 5441, 5442, 8051, 8061, and never had a single issue with any of them. i could literally kick a cd down the street on its face, pop it in, and it would play and not skip once.
i currently own an alpine because i like to keep in my car what we sell at the shop, but i still love eclipse decks. if we carried them, i'd have one over alpine in a heartbeat

x2

never had a problem playing stratched cd's with mine. better then i other deck i owned

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

This must make it awful uncomfortable to drive as well as be a major PITA having to uninstall / reinstall it all the time!

 

[Ctminime 10+ year member]

i had an eclipse cd5454 witch was a great deck..... but ill just say that over the 2 eclipse decks i have had i like my 9855 WAY better, not to mention the new eclipses are just hard to look at i mean.... gross, but the alpines make me more excited to look at than pam anderson

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

went from 9830 to 9831.. hopefully i can get my hands on the 9833 or even the 9835 sometime soon

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

eclipse got their bad wrap in the 97-98ish model years. they had some skipping issues, and in people's opinions that seemed to stick with them, even though that problem has long been resolved and they have one of the best cd mechanisms on the market as far as reading through scratched cd's and not skipping. i've owned 4 or 5 eclipse decks, an 5440, 5441, 5442, 8051, 8061, and never had a single issue with any of them. i could literally kick a cd down the street on its face, pop it in, and it would play and not skip once.
i currently own an alpine because i like to keep in my car what we sell at the shop, but i still love eclipse decks. if we carried them, i'd have one over alpine in a heartbeat

turn on/off thump as well from what I've heard.

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

turn on/off thump as well from what I've heard.

i heard that was a problem, especially on the 8443's and i have owned 2 different 8443's and have yet to have that problem

 

[FoxPro5 5,000+ posts]

turn on/off thump as well from what I've heard.

My 8445 had that, but my 8053 does not...kind of nice not to hear that unnerving thud anymore !!

 

[04silverz 10+ year member]

Ok, I was just posing this question for $h!ts and giggles. I had already made up my mind to get an eclipse. I thought the answer came down to alpine's name and as some of you pointed out, marketing. I do think Alpines look better. You have to give them credit for going with the same basic look throughout the years. There have been variations off of their distinctive look but it has always been built around the same theme year after year. You can't say that for eclipse after their line for last year, or many other brands for that matter. IMO, Alpines have a sexy look. However, I'm buying an Eclipse 8445. $300 shipped for a brand new unit is pretty awesome and represents one of the best buys around in car audio at this time IYAM.

hopefully you havent bought that yet. im sure you could get one authorized for only 100 bcuks more at max. if installed you get a 3 yr warranty vs an ebay warranty.

 

[NE14MX 10+ year member]

hopefully you havent bought that yet. im sure you could get one authorized for only 100 bcuks more at max. if installed you get a 3 yr warranty vs an ebay warranty.

No I haven't bought anything yet. My local shop doesn't have anything. Hell they barely have any 2006's. The 3 year warranty is a definate plus. My local CC only has the CD3000 and 2000. The other smaller shop only has the CD2000.

I'm sure the ebay ones carry no warranty. Do you think it would come with a warranty if I bought it from ebay and took it to teh dealer to have it installed? I don't feel like paying $550 for the 5K or $700 for the 7K but there are no others around me that I can find. If I can't find anything, I'll just take my chances and buy something online and install it myself.