Head units

[DannyCox]

I've been using Alpine for all my car stereos for the past 30 years. I have never bought anything else, and I have never had a problem. They have a bunch of models that will serve you well, you just need to go look and find the one that feels right for you.

[Hell Puppy]

I like the Mark Levinson system.

It's rather pricey, but it comes with a free Lexus.

[miz_wright]

@ HP:

*grin*

Yeh, but then I have to go to all that trouble of unloading the Lexus, and that seems more trouble than it's worth.

[Hell Puppy]

Seriously, Alpine seems to be making the best bang for buck head ends these days. Good sound quality and you can get as nuts as you want with the feature set from just a basic AM/FM/Sat/CD/MP3 unit to full on pop out touch screens with GPS, hard drives for MP3, etc.

As I'm guessing you already know, the head end these days mostly just dictate feature set and interface. Your sound quality is going to be dictated by your speakers and amps.

[miz_wright]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Seriously, Alpine seems to be making the best bang for buck head ends these days. Good sound quality and you can get as nuts as you want with the feature set from just a basic AM/FM/Sat/CD/MP3 unit to full on pop out touch screens with GPS, hard drives for MP3, etc.

As I'm guessing you already know, the head end these days mostly just dictate feature set and interface. Your sound quality is going to be dictated by your speakers and amps.

Yeh, my fella is a car nut... But I have to deal w/ the interface bits, and since this is my Xmess present (*wink*), I wanna know what the parts *I* will be dealing with have to offer. He can handle the rest *laugh*