I'm finally going to get rid of the factory HU. I'm only interested in a single din. I really don't need the DVD or nav, but i"m looking for a good high end HU. Sound quality is very impotant. What would you choose?

Thanks,
Mark

 

It depends on how much you want to spend, and if you are going with seperate amps or not.

I changed out my amps long ago, and kept the stock head unit for quite a while. I finally, this weekend, changed out the stock head unit for an Alpine DVA-9965. Pretty high end single DIN DVD/CD/HD radio player with no built in amp, but 4v pre outs. The rest of my setup is as follows:

Front Speakers: Boston Acoustic Z6 components, bi-amped with a JL Audio 450/4

Rear Speakers: Alpine SPS-17C2 6.5" coaxials amped with a JL Audio e2150

Subwoofer: JL Audio 10w6v2 in custom box amped by a JL Audio 500/1

Other: 0/1 gauge wire from battery to block, Streetwires fused power/ground distro block, 4 gauge wire from block to amps, dynamat all around, 1.2 Farad Tsunami capacitor

The head unit made a huge difference, but the rest of the system was important as well.

So thats my recommendation.

Dave

 

I have a used Sony XE-744 10 band Equalizer if you want that in there. It has a nice spectrum analyzer for a nice visual display. I had a double din set up in my old accord that I just stripped out when I got my G35. Check out http://www.discountave.net/xe744.html to see what it looks like. Let me know if you are interested.

 

Dave,

I did what you did. I changed out the speakers and amps. I have jl audio 300/4 and a 250/1 pushing MB Quart components upfront, Boston Acoustics in the back with 2 jl 10W3's in the trunk. In the beginning, which is about 3 years ago, my system sounded fine. Now the radio cuts out all the time and since I plan on keeping the car awhile it is time to change the HU. I'm looking at the Eclipse CD5000 or 7000, both up there in price. Any thoughts?

Mark

 

I don't know anything about the Eclipse units, so I can't really make any comments there.

The thing I like about the Alpine that I got was that it has time correction for the sound. That is, it delays the sound of the speakers closer to you (by a few milliseconds) so that sound from all the speakers hats you in phase at exactly the same time. I was definitely able to notice a difference.

I'm sure Alpine isn't the only brand that has time correction, btu I don't know what others do.

Anyways, it was worth it to me, along with the rest of the featueres.

Dave

 

Pioneer DEX-P1R. Its a few years old but, one the the best competition head units pioneer ever made. I don't know if it plays MP3's though. Also, dosen't work without a external amplifier. Maybe able to come up on one in ebay for about $300 used.