stereo poll

[MauiBlueGRide]

Ok your deck - sounds like a bad ground or perhaps the memory wire going to your battery is no good.
As for your brother in laws, I'm still not buying it man - the DSP got fried because "a board was loose" and the amp too? And all the head was doing was flickering on and off? Come on... You never mentioned that in your first post..... If an authorized dealer installed the equipment for you and what you are saying happened really happened, I'm sure they'd have replaced the deck, dsp, and amp if the deck failed like you said it did - but there is no way that a head unit fried your amp - if it did it probably would have taken your speakers with it - only possibility is SOMEHOW dc voltage got sent through your RCA's - that'd fry the proccessor, head, and amp but also make the nasty sound you've ever heard out of your speakers.....
So you've installed for 10 years eh? But you don't know what model head he had and you didn't know about the slave unit for your own radio?
Explain to me about ford door lock when you intergrate keyless entry - how do you hook them up?

Dude - sorry just not buying it.....

Chris

[redvalkrie]

We finaly got confirmation from the shop, they are reinstalling the same deck he had before they found one excatly like what he had I will get the model # I beleive it is the auto pc it has the microsoft emblem in the middle & the shop finaly confesed to screwing up the install, they wouldnt go into details but they are payingg for the whole thing & yes you are right the speakers whent to. (I feel they were just trying to get out of paying for it)
They are replacing the whole set up down to the wires, they want to be sure this time.

About my deck I had it fixed today, the shop let me now what was up, some how the back up wire going into the deck was losen its contact inside & would not lett more juice to come in to the memory & would blank out, this shop in tracy sound bytes said they fixed the problem I will find out in 5 day's to see if it persist.

[MauiBlueGRide]

Sounds good - glad to hear things worked out.....
Chris

[nis.k.a.]

Pioneer Premier DEH720 or 900R

[endfro]

Although a lot of people may not like Kenwood. I am in love with mine.

My deck is a brand new Kenwood eXcelon KDC-817. Plus it has been completely rebuilt on the inside. I know someone at Kenwood, so I got an incredible deal ($252 w/ S&H) for a deck that theres only one of.

High-end Kenwoods have incredible sound. Much more than you would expect out of them. Mine now sounds even better because I had them up the voltage of the pre-amp outputs. The AM/FM tuner was replaced with a much better one. Even though I dont listen to the radio.. I had it put in anyway.. just in case. Plus my friend who I got the deal through (hes an engineer) added in a lot of new goodies. Im not that much of an engineer.. im just a bigtime car audio buff. Heh.

Go Kenwood go!

[BruinG20]

I have all infinity kappa in my G. It's loud and perhaps more importantly, it's clean.

[endfro]

Kappa is pretty good, props given.

They make some really nice components, and some really nice speakers. But their subs are a different story, I cant figure it out yet.. but Infinity subs are no good.

I dont know about everyone else here.. but Focal components... holy shit wow those are good. But you wont ever see me letting my 2 sets of Audiophile components go.

Anyone remember Audiophile? Great company.. went out of business because they couldnt compete with name brands.. but they used to have some amazing people working for them...
JL/Xtant/PPI's amp designer, MB Quarts installer, Soundwerks engineer. Lots of good people. I happen to make friends with the guy who owned Audiophile and got myself some of their last few components around for super cheap. I've never heard speakers like this..

Except Dyn.. if anyones heard Dyn Audio's components you'd have to go change your pants.

[Sleepy]

i would go with alpine because they have the cleanist head unit as far a distortuin goes nice displays also depends on how much money you are willing to lay down
sleepy

[disco tea]

I have a mcintosh amp i want to sell if anybody is interested. its the 100x4 amp. i bought it about 5 years ago and never put it into my car. Got lazy. Also have an alpine CDA-7940 cd tuner head unit that i was gonna use with my amp but still sitting in my desk at work. If anybody is interested make me a serious offer for either one and will talk.

Thanks
davin
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[poppy_morenito]

I have a Rocford Fosgate connected to palin factory speaker. Best Buy Did the head unit install . Iit is not really loud but I am happy for now.

Well, except one ... thing... Malibu maybe you can help... the Headt unit is not flush with the rest of the Dash. I took it back to best Buy and they told me that nissans are " just like that " with aftermarket radios. But I look in these post and no one else's poke out the half inch that mine is ...

I thought that " nissan adapter kit " they made me buy would solve this . my other P10 came with a sony that is nice and flush ....

[MauiBlueGRide]

Ya - the bastards never take the time....
Normall with most head units you can recess them back a bit - normally one screw hole in the back will line up but you may need to make your own hold in the radio chassis to hold it in the front - use VERY small screws to do this and you may want to pull the top or bottom radio cover off to check for clearance first..... But ya, if you do that you can usually put the trim ring back on the radio and butt it up against the back of the plastic radio bezel and it will look fine and dandy.
Chris

[poppy_morenito]

Thanks malibu.. but they did not give me back the original trim for the radio !!! Anybody got one they can hook me up with ... DAMN @#%@^##@*@

[cas8_1999]

i suggest eclipse head units...

[pche059]

Pre amp quality wise Nakamichi is probably the best..but their prices are rather high too
I love the Alpine CDA 79xx series....
no built in amps... awesome pre amp signals...
The new CDA 7990R ...awwwww retailed at $3000usd

other wise...
Pioneers make some pretty funky units too... don't think too many other brands could beat their "price vs feature".

[Rich]

Pioneer DEH-P3300 [I think that's the right model #]

Decent Value
Good Power [MOSFET 50x4]
Keeps the bells and whistles to a minimum, while still having enough features to tweak the sound to its best.