The "What's your headunit?" thread

Cupra · 21 Dec 2011 at 19:09

KDC-PSW9524

along with loads of other ice when i was in my car moddng days about 7 years ago

I was so silly, spent 5k making the car go faster to then stick a ton of electrics in there

I did love how the amps used to slide over and a fan would turn on to cool them down tho

I remember the sony chameleon type stereo i had, Paid £500 for it and it was stolen in 4 days, took me 3 days tog et it back then i stuck it on ebay

I just roll with the standard one now

Kei · 21 Dec 2011 at 22:09

An old school pullout Alpine 7915M connected up to a 3672 active crossover, a 3566 6 ch amp and a 3553 4 ch amp. (which really needs to be tidied up)

Howard · 22 Dec 2011 at 08:32

SixTwoSix said:
Total noob question here. How much does the head unit itself affect the sound quality, I always thought the quality of your speakers would have the most bearing on SQ.

A lot, in my experience. OEM head units are often built to a fairly limited budget with pretty average pre and power amplification stages (i.e. the handling of the sources, and the amplification of them to drive the speakers). Each time I've swapped out a standard head unit for a decent aftermarket one, the increase in quality has been quite noticeable, especially in the Mondeo. It seems to have half decent speakers in. If you change the speakers instead of the OEM source equipment, you're just making the shortfalls even more apparent and going backward, if anything.

Obviously this doesn't quite apply to real high end ICE systems you'd find in premium cars (Mark Levinson, Harman Kardon, Linn etc (Not Bose :rolleyes:

))

In summary, I concur with Paradigm

Hate · 22 Dec 2011 at 09:06

Stock Audi RNS-E.

mjt · 22 Dec 2011 at 10:04

Becker Grand Prix 7990

Came with the car. Turns out to be quite expensive!

Shame they didn't buy a red one, and it's unfortunate it doesn't support iPod charging.

hurfdurf · 22 Dec 2011 at 10:46

Cupra said:
KDC-PSW9524

Wow, that brings back memories I had long forgotten, previous owner of my first car put one of those in and it was stolen about a year into me owning it! It was a motorized flip down kind of thing wasn't it? And you could change the angle slightly and stuff. Remember girls used to be well impressed with that!

james.miller · 22 Dec 2011 at 10:58

Had that a while now. It's pretty good, great integration over bluetooth, but the audio setup is a mixed bag - its got some great crossover flexibility, being able to change the crossover points and slopes for front/rear/sub independantly, but they paired it with a very limited eq meaning I cant get the best out of my setup. annoying. That and having the flick that right knob up/down or left/right to change music folder/track is a pain in the backside when driving as its too easy to push it in the wrong direction.

It's a good HU really though, but I want something else now.

Firestar_3x · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:01

hurfdurf said:
Wow, that brings back memories I had long forgotten, previous owner of my first car put one of those in and it was stolen about a year into me owning it! It was a motorized flip down kind of thing wasn't it? And you could change the angle slightly and stuff. Remember girls used to be well impressed with that!

That would be me, it was originally in my Saxo, then Clio it cost around £480 to buy new, was an expensive HU.

hurfdurf · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:02

Firestar_3x said:
That would be me, it was originally in my Saxo, then Clio it cost around £480 to buy new, was an expensive HU.

Nope, was my first car, Zetec S, your old one did that as well but no where near as funkily.

ScarySquirrel · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:24

Alpine X305, hooked up to an iPod in the glovebox which just lives there. Everything is controlled through the HU.

Brilliant unit, albeit with a very cheap and plastic feeling fascia.

hurfdurf · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:33

hurfdurf said:
Nope, was my first car, Zetec S, your old one did that as well but no where near as funkily.

Wait... or not... now im confused. I swear your one was kind of green and black...

Draeger · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:37

Stock units in all our vehicles. Never been into ICE much at all.

Howard · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:38

How can you lot have your climate controls set to such daft temperatures? >20C? Sheesh. I'm sweating at the mere thought

Clown · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:41

Am I crazy for setting the temperature up and having the windows open?

Howard · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:42

hurfdurf · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:42

Clown said:
Am I crazy for setting the temperature up and having the windows open?

From the RR to the pub I was incredibly confused by your choice to do this.

Slumberbox · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:45

mjt said:
Becker Grand Prix 7990

Came with the car. Turns out to be quite expensive!

Shame they didn't buy a red one, and it's unfortunate it doesn't support iPod charging.

That's the one I had in my old e36 was £300 iirc I bought the orange one because its most like the interior lighting and is clearer than the red and blue models.

Clown · 22 Dec 2011 at 11:49

Howard said:
Yes.

hurfdurf said:
From the RR to the pub I was incredibly confused by your choice to do this.

I like having the window open okay!

Aleksandrs · 22 Dec 2011 at 15:32

Clown said:
Am I crazy for setting the temperature up and having the windows open?

I do it sometimes. I quite like the mix of temperatures

ScarySquirrel · 22 Dec 2011 at 16:13

Howard said:
How can you lot have your climate controls set to such daft temperatures? >20C? Sheesh. I'm sweating at the mere thought

I was cold