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*Grant* · 03-19-2002, 05:02 PM

I'll be first to start I vouch for Eclipse. Regardless of the high price, their stuff is excellent quality (which is the main concern for this poll)

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SimpleS14 · 03-19-2002, 05:08 PM

I really haven't tried out all these systems, so I'm going for the one in my car.  Its a Sony CDX-M620: disappearing blackface which is also detachable, 52W x 4, and other little goodies.  It loud enough for me, and gave new life to my old speakers.

BlackS14 · 03-19-2002, 05:32 PM

I've always been pleased with Pioneer products....don't want anything to fancy for entertainment anyways

-Bill

DuffMan · 03-19-2002, 06:47 PM

What!? You left out Koss and Jensen. How could you? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

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96SEChick · 03-19-2002, 06:59 PM

lmao, Koss and Jensen go along with the car in your avatar

*Grant* · 03-20-2002, 02:40 PM

Koss and Jensen will be in the poll called "which cd players suck the most"

*DSC* · 03-20-2002, 02:52 PM

I have the old model of what GT specR has, the m600 or something, dissapearing black face but non-detachable.  I voted for eclipse tho, they are the best.

DuffMan · 03-21-2002, 03:09 AM

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*Grant* · 03-21-2002, 04:02 AM

Gerbil Audio Inc?? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/lookaround.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':look:'>

DuffMan · 03-21-2002, 10:17 AM

Ooooh, tuna can subwoofers, powered by a Gerbil amplifier. Thats something new to work on.

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hookedup240 · 03-21-2002, 02:43 PM

You forgot The best Brand=ROCKFORD

*Grant* · 03-21-2002, 05:30 PM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (hookedup240 @ Mar. 20 2002,4:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You forgot The best Brand=ROCKFORD</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Thats what the "other" category is for.
Rockford = OTHER.

silvia240 · 03-29-2002, 06:28 AM

for head units i like sony (used to like them but now they are so damn ugly)  Supurb functionality, very clean, and it matches my car... hehehe

boosteds14 · 04-01-2002, 02:14 PM

i luv alpine. but since i am too cheap, stock is good for me <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'>

adey · 09-15-2002, 06:03 AM

agreed with "silvia240" -- sony head units are fugly. -_- they seem to be marketing mainly to the rice crowd. Which, unfortunately, is where most of the money (probably) is.

i went with Pioneer -- no one comes even CLOSE to design and functionality to pioneer... look in particular to the DEH-P9300 (and the new one that plays MP3s), as well as the DEH-P8800 (or whatever the beautiful double-din one is called). Simple layout, clean looking, not cluttered, not cheap-looking (look at JVC if you want cheesy, polished silver painted plastic that LOOKS and feels like a 1990's transformer toy)...

On the other hand, I took a look at my friend's $1500 Clarion head unit the other day, and must admit that it's pretty damn nice. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/inlove.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='

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*Jeff240sx* · 10-28-2002, 06:46 PM

Yup.  Pioneer all the way!  They are well laid out, chicks dig the screen savers, and extremely functional.  Individual speaker control (volume, tone, bass, treble).  INDIVIDUAL!  
-Jeff

Chew Slice · 11-20-2002, 03:55 PM

Alpine all the way baby!!!
Ive had an eclipse and sony deck but they both suck.  They dont have near as good quality.  Sony is just bought for image and eclipe has the worst security feature.  Anybody who doesnt know that you need a cd key to start the eclipse deck up after power has been cut will steal it anyways.  Plus Alpine uses hight quality materials.  I've also got Alpine speakers, amps and security system and they all rock.  Second best I'd have to say Rockford Fosgate.

**Phlip** · 11-21-2002, 07:13 AM

Sony Xplod CDX 610 baby, Fell in love with it the first time I saw it and still loving it a year and a half later...

adey · 11-21-2002, 06:09 PM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Chew Slice @ Nov. 20 2002,2:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Sony is just bought for image</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Dude, sonys are fugly!!  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>   Their "bombz" (or whatever) remote control looks like the Apollo rocket cockpits... you know, the things that parachuted down to earth.  Not to mention the red display is just distasteful.

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Nismos14 · 11-21-2002, 10:58 PM

u all have to realize that most manufacturers dont give the same quality along their product line, some of their stuff thats cheaper doesnt sound as good, and their better stuff costs alot, for the most part most big names have really good high end stuff, i love pioneer but i dont know for sure if its the best, but it gets my vote :-D

ZBoy · 11-21-2002, 11:56 PM

I've had really good experiences with Panasonic. Even when I ran into some dumb bitch that cut me off the CD barely skipped. ITS A MIRACLE!

gabossie · 11-22-2002, 01:20 PM

Overall I voted for Pioneer, nice layouts, functionality, looks, and features. I like Blaupunkt too though, very underated IMO.

sanmiam · 12-09-2002, 03:17 AM

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Chew Slice @ Nov. 20 2002,5:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Second best I'd have to say Rockford Fosgate.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Second best to no one, well mabye a few.  I have never heard a Fosgate head unit, but their new amps and speakers (exclusing subs, which are OK at best) straight suck.  The quality control is just not there, and the amps don't push any where near what they used to.  Rockford Fosgate is just riding on a name that it built for itself about 7 years ago.  Expensive crap, I would just as well buy Jensen.

Powerzen2002 · 01-11-2003, 12:20 PM

I have had 2 sonys.. both had SOME kind of problem.

I have had a Pioneer headunit for about a year now and love it.

sony cd changers are really good though, and so are there
aftermarket interior speakers!

XPLODS BABY@!

03-19-2002, 05:02 PM	#1
Grant Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 聖地牙哥 Posts: 2,647 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Grant Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I'll be first to start I vouch for Eclipse. Regardless of the high price, their stuff is excellent quality (which is the main concern for this poll) <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

03-19-2002, 05:08 PM	#2
SimpleS14 Post Whore! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Philly Age: 40 Posts: 9,185 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: SimpleS14 Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I really haven't tried out all these systems, so I'm going for the one in my car.  Its a Sony CDX-M620: disappearing blackface which is also detachable, 52W x 4, and other little goodies.  It loud enough for me, and gave new life to my old speakers. __________________ *Goals are dreams with a deadline.* L.H.O.O.Q.

03-19-2002, 05:32 PM	#3
BlackS14 Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Palm Bay, FL Age: 44 Posts: 384 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I've always been pleased with Pioneer products....don't want anything to fancy for entertainment anyways -Bill __________________ Once you go black you...well...you know.....lol!!!!

03-19-2002, 06:47 PM	#4
DuffMan Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: in a cardboard box Posts: 2,517 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	What!? You left out Koss and Jensen. How could you? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

03-19-2002, 06:59 PM	#5
96SEChick Nissanaholic! Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Broken Arrow, OK Age: 47 Posts: 1,814 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	lmao, Koss and Jensen go along with the car in your avatar __________________ Lauren '91 300ZX TT Ultra Red 5-speed - JWT POPCharger, JUN flywheel, ACT clutch, Energy Suspension Bushings, Tokico Blues - dyno'ed 295hp/306tq '94 300ZX TT Black Emerald Pearl 5-speed - JWT POPCharger, JWT ECU w/ Stillen chip, Stillen exhaust, Tokico Blues, Eibach ProKits, 18" Enkei RP-01 wheels - dyno'ed 333hp/385tq '00 WS6 Trans Am Bright Red 6-speedFOR SALE - only 29k miles, stock, fully loaded, only $23,999 (NADA $26300) Green Country Motorsports Northeastern Oklahoma SCCA

03-20-2002, 02:40 PM	#6
Grant Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 聖地牙哥 Posts: 2,647 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Grant Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Koss and Jensen will be in the poll called "which cd players suck the most"

03-20-2002, 02:52 PM	#7
DSC New Title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: VA Posts: 3,454 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I have the old model of what GT specR has, the m600 or something, dissapearing black face but non-detachable.  I voted for eclipse tho, they are the best. __________________

03-21-2002, 03:09 AM	#8
DuffMan Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: in a cardboard box Posts: 2,517 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (96SEChick @ Mar. 20 2002,6:59)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">lmao, Koss and Jensen go along with the car in your avatar</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> How dare you insult my avatar like that! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cry.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

03-21-2002, 04:02 AM	#9
Grant Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 聖地牙哥 Posts: 2,647 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Grant Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Gerbil Audio Inc?? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/lookaround.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':look:'>

03-21-2002, 10:17 AM	#10
DuffMan Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: in a cardboard box Posts: 2,517 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Ooooh, tuna can subwoofers, powered by a Gerbil amplifier. Thats something new to work on. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''>

03-21-2002, 02:43 PM	#11
hookedup240 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NJ Age: 40 Posts: 1,149 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	You forgot The best Brand=ROCKFORD __________________ 1991 240sx se 5spd - sold 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege

03-21-2002, 05:30 PM	#12
Grant Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: 聖地牙哥 Posts: 2,647 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Grant Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (hookedup240 @ Mar. 20 2002,4:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You forgot The best Brand=ROCKFORD</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> Thats what the "other" category is for. Rockford = OTHER.

03-29-2002, 06:28 AM	#13
silvia240 Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: SoCal Posts: 438 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	for head units i like sony (used to like them but now they are so damn ugly)  Supurb functionality, very clean, and it matches my car... hehehe

04-01-2002, 02:14 PM	#14
boosteds14 Zilvia.net Advertiser Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CIPmotorsports Age: 42 Posts: 1,612 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	i luv alpine. but since i am too cheap, stock is good for me <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'> __________________ 240SXONE www.240SXMOTORING.com --- One Stop Shop for Your Nissan 240sx

09-15-2002, 06:03 AM	#15
adey Post Whore! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 3,072 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	agreed with "silvia240" -- sony head units are fugly. -_- they seem to be marketing mainly to the rice crowd. Which, unfortunately, is where most of the money (probably) is. i went with Pioneer -- no one comes even CLOSE to design and functionality to pioneer... look in particular to the DEH-P9300 (and the new one that plays MP3s), as well as the DEH-P8800 (or whatever the beautiful double-din one is called). Simple layout, clean looking, not cluttered, not cheap-looking (look at JVC if you want cheesy, polished silver painted plastic that LOOKS and feels like a 1990's transformer toy)... On the other hand, I took a look at my friend's $1500 Clarion head unit the other day, and must admit that it's pretty damn nice. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/inlove.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> __________________ Instagram: @SX180HKG

10-28-2002, 06:46 PM	#16
Jeff240sx I hate you too... Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Tampa, FL Age: 41 Posts: 5,828 Trader Rating: (0) Rides Gallery: Jeff240sx Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Yup.  Pioneer all the way!  They are well laid out, chicks dig the screen savers, and extremely functional.  Individual speaker control (volume, tone, bass, treble).  INDIVIDUAL!   -Jeff __________________ Whatup?

11-20-2002, 03:55 PM	#17
Chew Slice Zilvia Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC Age: 40 Posts: 215 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Alpine all the way baby!!! Ive had an eclipse and sony deck but they both suck.  They dont have near as good quality.  Sony is just bought for image and eclipe has the worst security feature.  Anybody who doesnt know that you need a cd key to start the eclipse deck up after power has been cut will steal it anyways.  Plus Alpine uses hight quality materials.  I've also got Alpine speakers, amps and security system and they all rock.  Second best I'd have to say Rockford Fosgate.

11-21-2002, 07:13 AM	#18
Phlip Yes, I look like that Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In my supervillain's lair Posts: 27,976 Trader Rating: (19) Rides Gallery: Phlip Feedback Score: 19 reviews	Sony Xplod CDX 610 baby, Fell in love with it the first time I saw it and still loving it a year and a half later... __________________ Weirdo And I write too!

11-21-2002, 06:09 PM	#19
adey Post Whore! Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 3,072 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Chew Slice @ Nov. 20 2002,2:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Sony is just bought for image</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> Dude, sonys are fugly!!  <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>   Their "bombz" (or whatever) remote control looks like the Apollo rocket cockpits... you know, the things that parachuted down to earth.  Not to mention the red display is just distasteful. BUUUUUT of course, "to each their own".   <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=''> __________________ Instagram: @SX180HKG

11-21-2002, 10:58 PM	#20
Nismos14 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: New Jersey Age: 42 Posts: 1,213 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	u all have to realize that most manufacturers dont give the same quality along their product line, some of their stuff thats cheaper doesnt sound as good, and their better stuff costs alot, for the most part most big names have really good high end stuff, i love pioneer but i dont know for sure if its the best, but it gets my vote :-D __________________ '97 maxima 5-Spd

11-21-2002, 11:56 PM	#21
ZBoy Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 5 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I've had really good experiences with Panasonic. Even when I ran into some dumb bitch that cut me off the CD barely skipped. ITS A MIRACLE! __________________ 1976 Datsun 280z -Stock as of yet

12-09-2002, 03:17 AM	#23
sanmiam Leaky Injector Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 132 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Chew Slice @ Nov. 20 2002,5:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Second best I'd have to say Rockford Fosgate.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'> Second best to no one, well mabye a few.  I have never heard a Fosgate head unit, but their new amps and speakers (exclusing subs, which are OK at best) straight suck.  The quality control is just not there, and the amps don't push any where near what they used to.  Rockford Fosgate is just riding on a name that it built for itself about 7 years ago.  Expensive crap, I would just as well buy Jensen. __________________ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to prosper" - Benjamin Franklin

01-11-2003, 12:20 PM	#24
Powerzen2002 Zilvia Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 225 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I have had 2 sonys.. both had SOME kind of problem. I have had a Pioneer headunit for about a year now and love it. sony cd changers are really good though, and so are there aftermarket interior speakers! XPLODS BABY@! __________________ No Quote, No Cares, Just Drive.