I haven't owned a clarion, but I think my next unit will be Clarion or
Eclipse. I have an Alpine now. It's my second Alpine and I'm really
disappointed. My first Alpine bit the dust after a year and a half of use
(CD laser quit), and now my new one (7832) is only 2 years old and is
acting up. I had it in the shop (circuit city) because it just wouldn't
play CD's. The problem was intermitten.. all I would get was digital
distortion. So, circuit city has it for 2 weeks, says they can't find the
problem, and give it back. Now, it skips like hell, some CD's won't even
play cuz' all they do is skip, and it just don't sound as good as it used
to. I'm VERY picky as to my audio quality because I am an Audio Engineer,
and listen to most of my music on $15k studio monitors. Man, I thought
Alpine was he best... guess not =(
-mike d.
miggitymike@juno.com
88 6er with Slush-o-matic and 3.55 one-legged rear,
lowered, modded, and painted =)
http://members.xoom.com/dakotaperf/index.html
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 00:09:25 -0600 kwjohn@mindspring.com writes:
> I'll have to agree with Dester on that one.
>
> If you read head unit reviews (in car audio magazines) pay attention
> to
> the output voltage with <.3% distortion; the higher the number, the
> better sounding (and more resistant to interference-type noise).
> Most
> of the cheaper units (and unfortunately some of the "high-end" units
> from folks like Nakamichi and McIntosh) are good to 2 or 2.5 volts.
> Some of the "high output" variants are at 4 volts, which is a
> serious
> step in the right direction. (includes Sony MobileES, Pioneer's
> Premier
> line, several different Alpines, and Clarion's ProAudio line)
>
> The best of the breed (which includes the old Alpine 7909, three
> older
> Eclipse models, and the Rockford Fosgate 8340c) are as high as 9
> volts!
> (5.5v, 4.5-7v, and 9v, respectively) Also notable is that all of
> these
> units very "efficient" on features and don't provide a built-in
> amplifier.
>
> Kurt
>
>
> Dester223@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I think they're pretty good decks. I don't like the new ones
> personally. I
> > think people are packing WAY too many features into head units
> these days
> > that it's too complicated for use and it never gets used. It's
> just a darn
> > CD player. give me clean voltage to my amps and i'll be happy.
> > -Dester
> >
> > << Dester, just for sh**s and giggles, whatta you think of
> clarion? (not
> > talkin
> > about the prices, hehehe)
> > >>
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