TV Screens

[IceMonkey]

Ive wanted a touch sreen for the car for a while, looking around at the market I tought about getting a double DIN screen rather than a motorised single DIN, as it looks a bit tidier in the dash, and should be easier to fit???

Being a big fan of Pioneer, that was the first place to look, but its like £1700 cause of the hard drive and sat nav built in.

So I found the Alpine: IVA-W200Ri can get it for about £540. Haven't had an alpine head unit for some years are they still good?

[bob]

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f281/rcmwr1/rosyb079.jpg

[victim]

screen looks a bit dogey Bob, there's a big white blob at the top. Can hardly read the data :hysterical:

[bob]

Just as well its not mine then....:hysterical:

[Kris]

iv never had a problem with alpine, just always been a bit basic but great sound quality

[bob]

£1100 for the AVIC-D3.
http://www.online-caraudio.co.uk/ishop/1126/shopscr561.html

[scoobybeth]

thats alot of money..... lol

[IceMonkey]

If I was going to spend that much I'd pay the bit extra for the Pioneer AVIC-HD1BT £1500

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/4825.html

[bob]

Prices will soon drop....but by then we will want the new version...:wink:

[IceMonkey]

The price of the Pioneer AVIC-HD1BT hasn't changed for over a year now, perhaps it will with the introduction of the AVIC-D3. Still don't want to spend a grand really.

Just had a look at the AVIC-D3. Finally, a head unit that plays AAC files. Sweet!

This the one that tempts me though, a good price, plus I can use me Ipod:

http://caraudiosecurity.com/shop/product/products_id/4659.html

[bob]

I quite like the AVIC-D3. could pay the extra and have the hard drive..But an ipod does much the same thing...

[IceMonkey]

Good point. just gotta decide is it really worth spending £1K compared to £550 on the Alpine:scratchchin:

[bob]

How would the sat/nav work with the alpine?

[Broxi]

I have always been a Very big fan of Alpine. at one point i had 3.5K of Alpine ICE. till the car was nicked and stripped.

I am the opposite to you and have never liked the Pioneer.

when i had all my ice, a friend had a VW sirocco with iirc over 5K of Pioneer Ice. and mine produced, musch cleaner and more precice sound than all of his.

while his system was installed by a professional ICE company all mine was done by myself and self tuned.

He was dissapointed to say the Least.

But i believe I have converted him to alpine. only problem is he has grown out of loud stereo's etc.

Oh i am referring to Final Legacy on here.

[bob]

I had the same 4 amps and tons of speakers all Alpine really great sound. I then had a pioneer and found it ok but not as good as Alpine. I now have alpine again and thinking of going to pioneer....Think Alpine is the gear if you require amps and crisp loud music. Pioneer seem good straight from the box.

[IceMonkey]

Subs are all about the enclousure. You can spend hundreds on them, but if they are in the wrong size enclousure, they sound sh*t. I used to have two 10" subs in boxs I made myself, and they were much lounder and crisper than a mate 12's in the crappy box that came with them.

In my last car I had a full Pioneer install still only using two 10's and was pumping out over 125db.

Was your mates a fibreglass install? My experiance of them is although they look great, you never get the sound quality.

[IceMonkey]

How would the sat/nav work with the alpine?

You can attatch the Alpine: NVE-N099P - Navigation unit. Its not cheap at £730.

To be hones. i'm not overly bothered about Sat-Nav good old map reading never hurt anyone, or I can always borrow a Jane-Jane to send me the wrong way!!!

[Broxi]

No, it was all done using boxes that were meant to be right for the Subs.

Mine i done the boot out in MDF and made my own enclosure, using a program i found online telling you how to calculate the volume of air. and sealed it all up with Tiger seal automotive pannel adhesive.
retrimmed in leatherette. looked and sounded great.

[Final Legacy]

If you recall Derek my car had free air subs not boxed. It was mdf'ed, dynamatted thru out false floors /stealth shelves ect .I was always careful who i showed the stereo to but unfortunently for you, you showed the wrong people:mad0213: :mad0245: Still been there, done that hey Del! we;ve made our selves deaf in the process:z_what: and now as we got older :character0032: we try to lose a little weight from the car:jumps_rope: so to make it faster rather than adding half a tonne of stereo.:smile_46:

[IceMonkey]

A good rule of thumb, I find for speaker boxes is the depth should be 1.5 x the diameter of the sub. This gives great sub and hits those really low notes.

The thicker the mdf the better, but obviously that is a weight issue. Which I why I haven't loaded my car with all the kit i've got at home, however tempting it may be!!!