HU difficult choosing

[Sabrewing5]

I have been looking at a new headunit for about a month now. I have got the companies down to Alpine, Kenwood or Pioneer. I want to spend at most 300 dollars. I also want the most control over my speakers and sound. Any ideas on the company i should choose? Maybe even suggest a headunit.

THANKS

[tblake]

well, my pioneer deh-p6500 is very customizable, and has seperate preouts for a sub so you can fade that differently than the other 4 speakers. It also has a built in selectable high pass filter, and a few different sound settings for the sub including some db gain level, I'm not sure cause I've never installed a sub, and it can also controll how the sub hits, forward or reverse. Very very good sounding head unit when its all tweaked. Only downfall is that the p6500 doesnt play mp3 cd's, if you want mp3's you'ld have to get a p7500. Same unit only it plays mp3 cd's and costs a lot more. They have since updated the p6500 to p6700 and p7500 to p7700. I'm all for pioneer. always have and probably always will be.

[pimprolla112]

Look into the kenwood excelon series, panasonic makes a bitchin HU if you give me more of an idea for what you want i can give you some suggestions. Ive never had a better HU than my panasonic that i had about a year ago but it broke when i wrecked my car. Granted everyone has a different opinion yu cant argue with what features you can get for what price. Also look into alpine and eclipse HU you might have to go to ebay, or look at a discount audio site and you can get a better one cheaper.

[tblake]

Originally Posted by pimprolla112

....Granted everyone has a different opinion...

exactly, I've had a sony, old school alpine, jensen, dual, and 2 pioneers. The pioneer deh-p6500 is so far the best. Although I dont think its a very high end. it has a lot of features, but I know panasonic does make a very very good head unit.

[pimprolla112]

Ive had sony not impressed, pioneer had some nice features pleased with perfromance and sound, clarion awsome sound, nice perfromance, and i currently have an alpine in both my vehicles nice sound great features but nothing amazing. And the panasonic i had hooked up to an amp awsome clarity, awsome sound and the features were amazing, bass boost features tight and boom, you could control the output for each speaker, control the bass output for the sub and you could control the bass boost effect from -6to6 and in 2 db intervalls and you could change the frequency from 60-80-100-120 cam in nice with the amp tuning. ANd it had some nice graphics like sowboarding, racing, and some other stuff HU looked more like it was a $800 hu than a $300 one off ebay. Yeah t was like 450 from circuit city and cruchfield at the time. but every company has features they ride off on to compete with others companies and its all in what your after.