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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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