Thinking about buying one. How is the SQ cause that is one of the primary reasons i'm thinking about it. Generally how are the clarion 24bit DACS?

 

I ran one for a few months last summer.

It looks good(imo), sounds good, was easy to use, and the display was easy to see in direct sunlight. It also never skipped.

That being said, with all the tweaking in the world, I could not get it to sound nearly as smooth as my eclipse 8053 does which is set flat.

 

I also have a chance to pick up this deck for a decent price.. I looked at the specs but couldn't figure out how many preouts it has. Are 24 bit DACs usually better over 1 bit?

 

I bought it and I'm very happy with it. The deck has three 4v preouts and an aux input. The 24bit DACS are way better than 1bit. If you can get a good price on it go for it. By the sounds of it the only deck that is better is eclipse.

 

JayDawg, have you had a chance to test in direct sunlight? I would be putting this in a convertible and I'm curious how visible the display is.. my current Premier deck is terrbile with the funky EL display..

 

I find my 835 is easy to control and the only problem I have is direct sunlight when it's showing an orange colour, I just switch to another colour.

 

I haven't had direct sunlight on it yet but since the unit is very shiny I get glare which is a pain but I guess you get that with almost any headunit.

 

I had direct sunlight today and it didn't wash out.

 

The wife has one in her car and we are VERY happy with it, that is once we realized that we had to push harder on the bottom left corner of the face and get a second click. [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img]

Like said above the display is really great, even in direct sunlight. I find that if its at all hard to see all you have to do is switch for the positive display to negative. I find the negative ALOT better.

Biggest complaints?
The remote. The one feature it doesn't have is a way to change folders. What a pain not being able to from the remote.
Pause, I hate how this deck takes so long to come off pause.

 

There's a pause button? [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]