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<blockquote data-quote="ciaonzo" data-source="post: 8630217" data-attributes="member: 607015"><p>Crutchfield is notorious for dumbing down features for the sake of keeping things simple for their simple customers. They have left you misinformed and with the wrong impression. I didn't pitch the head as the 'most advanced and up to date' head that he could buy. But I did constructively suggest something that would be worth well more than $80 in performance, by today's or yesterday's standards. There's nothing sh<span style="color: navy">it</span>ting on this head for $80. Dated sure, but not irrelevant.</p><p>I've owned every top shelf Clarion head since the 7770 (a true dinosaur). I'm pretty familiar with all of them and I still have most in my possession, complete with optical cables and outboard processors. I wouldn't have suggested it if I weren't familiar with what it can actually do. The ones that use the optical cables sound better than the Pioneer 800PRS and 80PRS (not the 99, though). I'm a sound quality guy and I've done the comparisons. Using his brain and the features in his amps and this head, he will have a fully active setup with crossovers, time alignment, and 12 bands of <strong>parametric</strong> EQ (3 per set of outputs, 31 bands to choose from with +/- 12dB gain and 1 to 20 Q width), and many other features. He can even switch it to 5.1 mode if wants to use a center channel setup. Most of Clarion's top heads offered outboard DSP/EQ processors that were fed a signal by a fiber-optic cable because the DACs in the outboard unit were unmatched. Eventually, they were able to fit all that into just the head unit. This is one of those. Clarion was doing time alignment before most understood what it was and how to implement it. It just wasn't called time alignment, they called it virtual space enhancement. Call it a marketing mistake.</p><p></p><p>This hangs just fine with today's 'witchcraft'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ciaonzo, post: 8630217, member: 607015"] Crutchfield is notorious for dumbing down features for the sake of keeping things simple for their simple customers. They have left you misinformed and with the wrong impression. I didn't pitch the head as the 'most advanced and up to date' head that he could buy. But I did constructively suggest something that would be worth well more than $80 in performance, by today's or yesterday's standards. There's nothing sh[COLOR=navy]it[/COLOR]ting on this head for $80. Dated sure, but not irrelevant. I've owned every top shelf Clarion head since the 7770 (a true dinosaur). I'm pretty familiar with all of them and I still have most in my possession, complete with optical cables and outboard processors. I wouldn't have suggested it if I weren't familiar with what it can actually do. The ones that use the optical cables sound better than the Pioneer 800PRS and 80PRS (not the 99, though). I'm a sound quality guy and I've done the comparisons. Using his brain and the features in his amps and this head, he will have a fully active setup with crossovers, time alignment, and 12 bands of [B]parametric[/B] EQ (3 per set of outputs, 31 bands to choose from with +/- 12dB gain and 1 to 20 Q width), and many other features. He can even switch it to 5.1 mode if wants to use a center channel setup. Most of Clarion's top heads offered outboard DSP/EQ processors that were fed a signal by a fiber-optic cable because the DACs in the outboard unit were unmatched. Eventually, they were able to fit all that into just the head unit. This is one of those. Clarion was doing time alignment before most understood what it was and how to implement it. It just wasn't called time alignment, they called it virtual space enhancement. Call it a marketing mistake. This hangs just fine with today's 'witchcraft'. [/QUOTE]
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