what deck do you guys perfer the

Alpine CDA-9831

Or

Pioneer DEH-P860MP

Right now i am leaning towards the alpine, but i wanted to see what u guys thought first

 

Both good decks. The Premier has better higher preout voltage, and a bigger EQ. Alpine has better FM Sens. and better Signal to Noise ratio. Beyond those, its a matter of whether you want a nice screen. If it were me Id go with the Pioneer Premier, not only for higher preout voltage, but the 9831 is a very common deck. Im all about putting things in my car that most people dont have.

 

Wheres the none of the above option?

 

OK fine, if it had to be one or the other...Pioneer Definately

 

the pioneer premier decks are SWAYT

 

Trevmeister, ill translate this for you to the obligatory statement that gets said in every 'which head unit' thread on here: Get an Eclipse from Don

 

Nah not from me, that he would have to buy local. I could send him the 860, but none of the Eclipses. He lives to far away.

 

Damn, forgot about that.

 

It would be pretty difficult to explain how someone drove across the country just for a HU

 

i drove across the world for a cooke

 

You can barely drive across town

WTF is a cooke?

 

That is, he can barely drive across town without scraping his lip to hell...or almost beating up girls with bats who hit his car.


(see the threads in general maxima discussion for anyone who doesnt know)

 

Don, im still learning how to follow directions on the highway... i hate driving to places i dont know about or never been to, i just get maaad paranoid. last time i got lost i ran out the car and left the car in the middle of the road to run up to someones window just for directions.

and kevin, i just went to the body shop he was like fawk it, and gave me sand paper and told me to sand it and bring it back loll. that lip is crazy i dont even think i want to paint it back its only been 3 months and its messed up beyond belief

 

So basically, the "can barely drive across town" comment applies to more than one aspect of your driving. Or maybe its NYC I think I could make it more than 3 months driving around here without scraping a lip to hell

 

i mean its not only the lip, i have a drop aswell, but every max i know or seen has there lip fawked up.

 

btw



I STARTED MY FIRST DAY IN COLLEGE!!!

nd it sucks, they ppl there are all loosers, the school looks boring, im about to make it fun

 

Join the club with me and chris. School sucks.

 

yoo theres this white chick in my class, and shes mad cute, and mad nice. its funny because she started talking to me and i was like shut the fawk up. but neways she was from upstate, and i didnt know ppl from upstate were so friendly. i know she didnt started talkin to me cuz of my goodlooks because i was looking like a bum but neways the campus is nice, i still feel like a kid though over there, i guess everyones older then me

 

psh can we get back on topic plz

 

Pioneer.....

 

lol sorry about getting so off topic. It happens when any combination of me, slickrick, ascendantmax, or Pearl96Max start making fun of 2 da...err...talking.



The concensus is in. If you must choose between those two, get the Pioneer, but price out Eclipse locally because theyre gonna give you the best results.

 

k, do u have any models of eclipse that u could sugest? that would be in about the same price rages as the pioneer and alpine decks?

 

Wait for Don to see this thread again to get a sense of price range (even though he will probably sell cheaper than stores near you) But Im guessing a 5425/5435 would be around there. Check out the eclipse site, www.eclipse-web.com

 

Don usually recommends, and sells mostly the cd4525. i believe its the 3rd model up. btw all of them have 5 volt preoutputs

 

Thats correct although its 5425. The 5435s are definately cathcing up though. Sold 2 more today

 

I'd take the Pioneer.

Just make sure you do a search on those HU's and inform yourself on the common problem plaguing them. The preouts are known to have internal ground issues causing noise and or failure of the preouts. They have known ribbon cable/motorized face problems that will cause them to eat your CD's as well.

here's good place to start-good luck
http://www.caraudio.com/vb/search.php?searchid=644217

If I were you and had my mind set on a Pio, I'd wait until the next lineup comes out hoping they fixed some issues.

 

For a deck I would recommend Pioneer, but for subs and amps go Alpine on that stuff.

 

What college? I would go with the Pioneer, you prolly wont be disappointed with either though.

 

st. johns homie

 

no ****, Ive got a friend who goes there. I think hes a sophomore or junior now.

 

werd, so i guess that makes it 2 friends now.. lol

 

Well I've got the Pioneer and I like it. The only problem I'm having is sometimes faceplate gets stuck it might be because the heat. I like the customizable stuff too which I will do eventually. I am also having trouble reading scratched cds which I know work on other cd players. Maybe its just mine. I still say pioneer cause its easy to use.

 

lol, im a senior at Edison, right across the street.

 

I agree 100%. I love Pioneer HU's but I had a Pioneer amp and the thing was supposed to be amazing but I had nothing but problems with the thing.

 

Who informed you that any Pioneer amp was amazing?
Just curious. We asked my Pioneer rep why do the amps basically suck. He just said we hit a soft spot.

 

The new Premier amps are actually pretty solid amps. Underrated, nice looks and very powerful& affordable.

 

Our rep did say they were better this model year, but theyve still got a little way to go, plus to overcome a negative image is nearly impossible.

 

ill agree with SUpercross...the Pioneer decks do look a lil cooler, but the Alpines are a lot nicer as far as running and controlling Amps and Subs is concerned...Id go with Alpine...but not necessarily that Unit....the 9835 however...juicy....

 

alpine is the shiet

 

in my exprince, pioneer is the best. plus if you are getting the permier version it covers 2 yr manfucatior. Pioneer is easy to fix by many shopes, where alpine not.

Also for pioneer, get the the steering wheel remote countroll, it is hoked to your steering wheel and can countrol the pioneer.

Had 7 pioneer mp3, cassete, 10GB harddrive by pioneer, with now defect since 1997

Had 3 alpine cd mp3 since 2002, with at least 8 problem that canot be fixed.