You can go to your local Best Buy and pick a Pioneer deck with 3 preouts for under $200 CAD. And they come with 24bit DAC's and stuff.

 

Like I said, I'm not feeling the Pioneer's displays, just me I guess.

MR2NR, looking to spend 150, 200 maximum, before shipping.

 

You said you werent feeling the Alpines, and now the Pioneers are out too. Both my faves. It's a sad day. I think it really makes no diff what brand you buy for that much money. I would look into cosmetics you like, and appealing to you functionality. SQ will be comparable no matter what you go with.

 

I still think that you should go with an alpine even if you don't like how they look. If your going for sound quality all the alpine decks we've tested at work, the pre-outs never have a clipped signal no matter the volume. So no matter what the preout voltage is you'll know the distortion is because your reaching the performance limits of your system. Not because you got chitty preouts or a chitty HU

 

adam i just picked up the pioneer 4000ub for the winter bomb for like 180 dollars plays mp3's
has direct i pod control and 3 sets of 4 volt pre outs

built in hipass and low pass crossovers and all that crap

 

kenwood kdcmp438u....199$

 

Kirk, I think I was looking at that one at Future Shop.

Again, for some reason the display turns me away....probably just me being crazy. I'm not big on the whole iPod dealy ethier. Don't own one, and don't plan on it. All my music in the car comes from Mp3 cd's, so iPod capability isn't a big thing for me. Sub control, decent EQ, HPF and LPF if possible, in a nice looking package with a nice display, that's basically my outline.

 

You're crazy. Make up your mind and go for Alpine, Pioneer, JVC, Clarion, Panasonic, Eclipse. Also you can choose from Dual, Audiovox, Pyramid, or the biggest piece of crap Nakamichi, or Denon

 

Sony Head Unit

I've been looking at this head unit. Only problem is that it doesn't have a dedicated sub pre-out.
But you could always run the rear speakers of the deck, and use the rear pre-outs for your subwoofer signal.
Though that would pretty much defeat the purpose of having that 4 channel PG amp.

Is Sony a bad word around here? No one else had mentioned that brand...

 

Can you say rootkit?

I have a long memory.