Ok, I'm buying a head unit with my christmas money, and needed some advice. I'm going to get a pretty nice one, but not like the top of the line type. I have around $300 to work with, maybe a little more. Just post what you have, or what you would get. I was looking at an Alpine one for $279. thanks

 

for that pricerange, I'd go Kenwood. I've had 4 Kenwood excelon headunits and currently have a Kenwood in dash MP3 player. Great reliability, and good features.

 

get a pioneer!!ive had the same pioneer for 2 yrs no probs!!Its pushing 2 PowerBase 4 1/2 dash speakers,2 PowerBase 6x9's,and then i got a Pheonix Gold 2500 Watt amp pushing 2 Pheonix Gold 12's in a closed truck box...

 

my bro has a kenwood for the last 3 yrs and it still works great, in his old truck it was pushin 4-4X6 boston acoustics wit 1-12" sub and 250w amp, in his new truck hes got 2 of the bostons in the back and the stockers in the front, but hes gunna replace them soon, too much power going to them, and hes got 2-10" subs and 8??W amp,all of his amps and subs are kenwood, never had any problem with them

 

dang tate, sounds like you got a kickin system there. Powerbase? never heard of them. how much did you pay for your Amp? I'm just putting in a head unit, and some lil 6x8's for now, cause I want to get another car and switch it to that car. I saw some of those pioneer premiere units, looked nice.

 

If you want sound quality and features, no doubt, go Alpine. Get one that is NOT self-amplified, you lose sound quality with pre-amplified head-units.

Then you will need an amp for your mids and tweets and an amp for the shakers. But if SQ is your thing, don't go pre-amplified and get some good highs and mids, as they are AS important as sub selection.

In my 2002 Nissan Altima V6 (245 HP, 5 speed, 14.8 1/4 stock, [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]), i have the factory BOSE head unit (I kept it because of the 6-disc in dash changer), wired with Fusion heavy gauge wiring kit.

I have 8 speakers total (w/ out the subs). I kept the 2 Bose tweets in the pillars (cuz they are awesome), I swapped the Bose 6 1/2 for Clarion 1-way mids in the front doors and Clarion 2-ways in the rear doors. I switched the factory bose 6x9's on the rear shelf with Fusion 6x9s. These are all powered by 1 Pheonix Gold QX amp (Got it for free).

And to cap things off, I have 2 Power Acoustiks FUBR-12(12" sub w/ 700w RMS and 1800w peak, very heavy/high quality sub) in single-sealed boxes. Check them out here, these are powered by a Class-D Orion sub amp.

SQ is awesome, the highs are incredible and the bass shakes your brain to a pulp, but I'm having rattling problems (I do have some Dynamat in the trunk and doors) , the rear shelf is vibrating against the rear window and you can really hear it, also my license plate and trunk latch are rattling like crazy. Looking for a solution.

Good luck on your purchase [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

adam- If you go alpine give rod a shout. I personally think alpine is a pain. Seems like they do not interface with other brands easily. Anyway Rod set me up with alpine main amps, cd changer,head unit etc. Speakers/TV/DVD/subwoofers cheap for my 4 door dodge. Rod has a car stereo store you know.

 

I personally like Kenwood as well...but your the one thats getting it so get whatcha want.

 

i also have 8 tweeters...during the summer i had a kick a$$ system...i had 2 Rockford Fosgate HE 12's($119.95 a piece)...a Rockford Fosgate 450s amp($325.00)....a CUSTOM Ported Box w/the exact amount of airspace i am pretty sure it was 4 Square Feet of airspace($250.00)...Pioneer Head Unit($225.00)...2 Powerbase 6x9's($59.95)...2 6x9 boxes($30.00)...6 Tweeters($35.00)...2 Powerbase 4 1/2's($40.00)...Kenwood 600 watt amp for the highs($100.00)...this was all in a single cab truck...my knees were in the dash...but I had a LOUD A$$ system!!!Miked at 148 db's...I sold it all to buy new tires for my truck though [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] ........oh well.....HOOVER7 had a LOUD system as well!!!!

 

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