Head Unit of choice

Just wanted to know what do most competitors see as the headunit of choice for SQ...Also for flip screens as well.

I Like my F#1 stuff. I know the Alpine deck / H701 is also a good choice.

You should like it Mr. Brand X 2007 World Champ!

alpine 7909.......F1.........denon........sony c90.......clarion 9255..........hold on most of these are from the 90s........when there was still SQ cars

I run a C90...and have one as a back-up. Just like you should if you run a 7909 as well.

i have both........but the c90 is easier to come by

Mickey...you don't have an extra C90 face sitting around do you?

i like fusion

anyone know of a single din 5.1 HU other then the ravdvd1?

jsketoe wrote:

Mickey...you don't have an extra C90 face sitting around do you?

IT WILL BE USED SOMEWHERE IN THE NEW CAR.........CANT PART WITH IT

.....HU...what's that?

Denon RTZ1....or pioneer p9

Is the Alpine DVA-9965 any good?

Clarion DRZ9255
Alpine 9887
Alpine 9990

I just bought the Alpine 9965 so Im gonna see how this does. I guess Ill sell the Alpine D900...lol

damn that 9965 is nice... id be all over it if it had 5.1

I'm currently in the Alpine camp (IVA-W200 with PXA-H701) but I've been known to compete with Sony, Pioneer, and Clarion (in that order).....

ttt

Yeah I guess Im in the Alpine camp also. I just got that DVA 9655 with my H701 proc. I wish it had the output of the new Kenwood Exelon

I guess I'm in the Alpine camp aswell, the bimmer is outfitted in F1 but the xB is running P9 combo, and my tahoe is running the factory HU how pimp is that!!!!!!

bmuhammad1 wrote:

Yeah I guess Im in the Alpine camp also. I just got that DVA 9655 with my H701 proc. I wish it had the output of the new Kenwood Exelon

have you ever played a DVD-audio disk in that deck?

Nope...sure havent. I actually just found out about the head unit and decided to get it after some research. Hopefully I will have power to it today to play areound with it

On my Alpine, it doesn't matter what the output of the head is since I am running fiber and using the D/A converters in the 701. MUCH cleaner signal that way since you're not converting it from digital to analog back to digital and then back to analog again between the head and the processor and the amps. I'm also running Alpine amps so the 701 is already gain matched (essentially) to the amps by design!! (werd)

h701 rules....peace out

for what i costs silly


w205 is a nice counter part, i would like a little better gui

the h701 looks like a nice lil piece but im rocking some 3sixties

If U look back at competitors in the old days, let's say 1997,98,99, head units only made 10% big deal out of the whole installation. It was all about safety issues, wiring(which was very important),and imaging speakers in the right location.
Today it seems that some wannabee sq competitors think that expensive and outragous headunits make a difference if u win or lose. Wiring is still important today like it was back in the days.Speaker placement is also important than everything else.
I've seen competitors using crappy headunits like fosgate and still win top places in the industry.Fancy tv's and remote controls were not available back then. What difference would that make.
Ask people like Mark Fukada, Alma Gates, Gary Biggs, Steve Brown, they will tell U to go back to basics.
K--keep
I--it
S--simple
S--stupid

Well think about it this way. It all starts from where the signal originates. If you have a crappy signal it will remain crappy so to speak. Not that spending lots of money is going to allow you a victory. Most of it is an ego thing another part is one feels that they are getting the best signal possible. Now if a cheaper HU did what some of the more expensive ones did dont you think more would use them. I am also sure that most of the big dawg in comp today and of yesterday were running high end hu.

The 9655 is really nice. I notice a big differnce between this and the D900

cool... maybe alpine will have a 5.1 verson in 08 (ya right)