Looking for New Active Head Unit

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Sorry to hear about your clarion man, I went through the same problems with mine last year. They just arent made like they used to be, just buy a cheapo hu and an ms-8 or some outboard processor so you wont have this problem again. Hopefully the Zcons are damaging the radio, full of win if so.

As said before search around for some 800's or 880's they are still floating around.

I think that was a big part of the problem, yes.

i really like having everything right there in the HU. I like to tinker. lol

I was never really in love with the Clarion, but it was cheap and did what I needed it to do.

Really needed to replace it for a HU with a knob to roll up on tones anyway, so..............

[edouble101 314]

I want the p99rs badly

I will sell you my Kenwood KDC X994, Audiocontrol DQXS with DDC. Pm me if interested.

[Adrian_D 520]

I have an Amazon gift card $300 from a spiff at my work. If possible I want to use this instead of cash.

So looking around on Amazon I have found the following..........

Alpine CDA 9887

$300 used

Alpine CDA 9886

$220/30 used

PXA H100 is $120

Been reading the Alpines are noisy? True?

Anyone have these? Opinions?

Thanks guys.

No noise on all 3 9887 setups I've heard.

Personally I'd pick the Alpine 9887 over the Pioneer 880 because of the ability to high-pass the tweeter channel as low as 20hz. If you want to run a midbass + fullrange setup you need that flexibility. However you lose L/R EQ, which is also a very good tool.

9855 and 9835 sadly lack L/R level for each band.

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

I want the p99rs badly

I will sell you my Kenwood KDC X994, Audiocontrol DQXS with DDC. Pm me if interested.

Really got to keep this simple. I have run out of room to put more stuffs. lol

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

No noise on all 3 9887 setups I've heard.

Personally I'd pick the Alpine 9887 over the Pioneer 880 because of the ability to high-pass the tweeter channel as low as 20hz. If you want to run a midbass + fullrange setup you need that flexibility. However you lose L/R EQ, which is also a very good tool.

9855 and 9835 sadly lack L/R level for each band.

Good points.

I really do like the 9887, but the 880 has been on my wish list for some time now.

Decisions decisions.