Dazo

Hello, I´m in the same situation. I have an Alpine head unit with DVD and a 10' Screen in the rear of my mini van. I also have a 5.1 Amplifier that can only use with Alpine Head units. Anyway I see that the kenwood 8120 is better for most of you. Give me please your final advice. Thanks in advance.

Sikk Nation

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Alpine is really struggling to cut costs as much as they can while trying desperately to hold onto some quality.

Most people don't know that roughly 70% of Alpine's business lies with OEM manufacturing. This is a really high volume low margin business and when car production is down 35-40% they are losing alot of money

carstereoguy

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kenwood is all in one ive been installing for 24 years and i loved the alpine product until they came out with the blackbird and w205 i took them out and put the kenwood 8120 in and i dont think ill ever buy an other head unit from alpine unless they improve big time . for over 10 years ive had nothing but alpine in my demos car but they are struggling. this is my opinion but im very dissapointed cause i used to be an alpine freak

icedoutjetta

Hey well i was the one who started this thread and believe me i listened to the others and got the 8120 and man o man it is the best unit ever. No complaints GPS is dead on and there are so many functions it is a sleek unit with no faults or defects..well at least so far and ive had it in for a month now. Go with the kenwood trust me on it!! let m eknow what you decide to do in the end

Dazo

Thank you my friends, Today I have no doubt what to buy, I´ll go for a Kenwood 8120. The only doubt that I have now is to buy this unit or wait until June for the "Kenwood DNX 9140". The only thing that I know is that my next brand will be a Kenwood.

Dazo

Hello,

I bought the DNX 8120, and I'm really happy, I can't believe how friendly is to use it.
Thank to everybody for your good advise,

Dazo

CoreyC

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Looks like that in north america, look at the alpine double dins in japan they are 100xs better than anything out here.