[dazultra2000]

Sound quality is only gonna be as good as the worst component in the system.

So if you're running cheap speakers, it's not gonna make a lot of difference anyway.

However, if you go to some decent speakers (£100+ a set) then you really start to notice the crispness of the better HUs.

Sony, unfortunately, seem to pile all of their development into making the displays do all sorts of fancy crap that realistically isn't very useful anyway, as you should really be having your eyes on the road!

My mum has a £50 shark mp3 cd player off ebay, and it sounds just as my £190 alpine does in her car - but she has standard speakers, so not much ground for comparison.

When I asked my friends why they bought sony headunits, the standard reply i got was "cos they look cool".

Me and my car audio homies all have alpine, and with good reason. Sound quality where it matters!

I should be getting my new 2005 model alpine 9853R sometime on Tuesday - can't wait!

 

[dazultra2000]

Just a quick note...just looked at your ebay auction.

I think £200 for buy it now is a little optimistic seeing as you can buy it brand new for £199.99!
I hope the reserve wasn't set too high!

 

[dazultra2000]

right so a sony headunit is only as bad as the speakers it drives well i got a bubble rover standard speakers have two tweeters in doors rover ones and others in back will a sony be good for me or not alpine look very ugly no offence.

Yeah it'll be fine....but to be honest you should really look to upgrade the speakers too. I can't speak for the bubble, but the wedge speakers were awful. I mean absolutely terrible. Distortion is not a friend of mine, but those speakers dealt it by the bucketload!

I know that £100+ is a lot of money though..and so that's not top of the list. But even investing in something, maybe even just £50 speakers, will give you a world of difference.

and no offence taken but I still have to ask - whats the point of a flashy headunit when you're sposed to have your eyes on the road?