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by **Purple RS** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:47 pm

Surfing, I found another very nice deck by Pioneer (AVIC-N4). Two pieces I believe, the DVD ROM driven NAV unit being the second. They're pretty proud of it too, to the tune of about $1600. Plays about every kind of media you can put on a disc, is satellite ready, bluetooth ready, etc, etc...

Actually a few more features than what I'm looking for. The Alpine mentioned before as well as the other Pioneer are about the type of unit I'm looking into. The salesmen at my favorite store like some of the Kenwood and Panasonic pieces, but I haven't had a chance to look at them to make any comparisons.

by **Audiophile** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:02 pm

Sounds about right. That's why I hated working at circuit city. My circuit was very very good about being customer satisfaction driven, not numbers driven. 2 things suck:
1.) 99% of the other circuit city's BLOW.
2.) They've now moved to an "open floor" setup. Every associate is expected to know the whole store. With Car being the slowest department, there's never anyone in it.

The pioneer is a very nice unit as well, I had actually forgotten about that one. I agree that Alpine's quality has degraded a slight bit over the past few years, but they're still a cut above most other manufacturers in my book.

by **Purple RS** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 2:06 pm

Shopped a little today. Best Buy didn't have a whole lot on display, nor did anyone come to assist me. Circuit City was pretty much the same, but they had some nice looking Jensen units on display, but again, no help. Salesman at Car Toys wanted to steer me away from Alpine in favor of Jensen because "they have been going downhill since about 2001." But he did show me a nice Pioneer piece (AVHP5900D) that looked like it would do all I need. For all those reasons. I like my small shop I do business with, but I can only see them on Saturday.

I didn't appreciate the salesman giving me that pitch, especially when I hear so many good things about a product in more than just a couple of places.

by **Audiophile** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:01 pm

Hmmm, I'll see if I can't find the model number of the one that I played with tomorrow.

For tonight, I'm off to bed! Gotta be at work in 11 hours...blah. Nice chattin bro!

by **Purple RS** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:58 pm

Audiophile wrote:Glad I could help! Another cool one to consider is (no flames!) The panasonic...the model number escapes me right now, but I like it ALOT!

Depending on when I use it, I might find some of the nicer products in Panasonic's on-line employee store (I am a Panasonic employee for Panasonic Avionics Corp). Looked earlier today and there were no in-dash units, just the double DIN stand alone screen and flip down overhead screens. The employee store is where I bought the unit I have.

Audiophile wrote:One of the biggest reasons I like Alpine's touch screen's is the PulseTouch feedback--when you "click" a button on-screen, it feels like you're depressing a moving button--VERYYYY cool!

Oooh, nice feature :happy055:

by **Audiophile** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:44 pm

Glad I could help! Another cool one to consider is (no flames!) The panasonic...the model number escapes me right now, but I like it ALOT!

One of the biggest reasons I like Alpine's touch screen's is the PulseTouch feedback--when you "click" a button on-screen, it feels like you're depressing a moving button--VERYYYY cool!

by **Purple RS** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:12 pm

Audiophile wrote:Haha, wasn't trying to gank it from ya bro. Was just stating they were nice units :)
Forgot to say earlier:
Look into the Alpine IVA-D105 or 305 :) They're amazing

No worries there :) , It still does most everything I want and looks and performs well.

That Alpine looks great and should cosmetically integrate into my system. Thanks for the info, I'll have to have a look at it and others like it.

by **Audiophile** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:00 pm

Haha, wasn't trying to gank it from ya bro. Was just stating they were nice units :)

Forgot to say earlier:
Look into the Alpine IVA-D105 or 305 :) They're amazing

by **Purple RS** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:46 pm

It is, and if it comes out, it's going into my second F-body.

by **Audiophile** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:43 pm

Is that one of Panasonic's Old School touchscreen units?? If so, those things are cool as hell!!

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