This is a little off the FD specific subject, but I'm in the market for a new car stereo. I don't have the upgraded bose ( i just have the base model) and just want a stereo that already has an amp built in. Any ideas on which are the best and will fit.

 

I have an Alpine CDA-7842 head unit, and the CDX-Y4552 Digital Field Sound Processor. I will take a pic and post it later, but I love the combination. It sounds great.

 

Frank,

I am selling my set-up now, Its a JVC Kameleon head unit and a JVC 12 disc changer The head unit is 40W per channel if I remember correctly. Installs very very cleanly in an FD. I'll sell it to you cheap!!! They are both in great shape.

 

Guess that all depnds on how much you want to spend and what you want to get out of it. Pretty much any 1 space DIN unit (which is 90% of the market) will fit in your car.

Check out this thread for more info: https://www.rx7club.com/vforums/show...ight=head+unit

If it means anything, I'm pretty much sold on the Eclipse CD5441 http://www.eclipse-web.com/product/cd/cd_tr.html#cd5441 - lots of good features & supposedly one of the ebst as far as sound quality goes, but it's kinda ugly.

 

I'm glad you decided to go with the Eclpise Audio, Brian....

Good choice...

 

What about a stereo (head unit) that maintains the red light theme????

 

sony xplod

 

You can get one of the very attractive and subtle-looking Nakamichi units. You can order them with amber illumination, but you have to make the choice when you order as they normally ship with green illumination and it is not switchable. I've got one of these in my car, but they sent me a green one by accident:
http://www.maxcooper.com/rx7/gallery...c-r/index.html

The tuner isn't very good and it sounds kind of harsh (IMHO), but the power is decent and it looks great. Even with its shortcomings, I don't regret the purchase at all. It was very simple to install.

-Max

 

I have a car audio store/warehouse.

Nakamichi CD-45Z - $315.00
Nakamichi MB-75 - $425.00 (indash 6 disk receiver/cdplayer)

go to www.nakamichi.com to see specs, and email me at Indoaudio@aol.com.

 

GO with a Pioneer DEH-9400 . MP3 capability!!!! it is a sweet deck, but it'll cost around $900. if that is too much do a 7400. these decks are seriously BAd ***! and for speakers do Infinty all the way. I sell home and car audio, and these are the best I have heard, and I use them myself. I am buying the 9400 when it comes out in liek a week or so.
Center Channel 3.5"
Kappa 32.3cf
front speakers 6.5"
Kappa 63.3i
rear speakers 5"x7"
Kappa 572.3cf

 

T-88 ... or T-78

 

You know, while we're on the subject I was paging through the latest Crutchfield and everyone's selling the full-color TV-style displays now. They have RCA inputs and I was thinking it would really be kick-*** if there was some way of sending the output of the PFC to the display so that you could monitor things more visably than the commander allows you to....

Wish there were someone out there smart enough to make this happen!

 

check out the PFC forum and look for "datalogit" some people from new zealand hacked the PFC so you can do datalogging on a computer (connected by serial port). If you have an lcd screen that accepts VGA input, or a computer with video out, then you can display the PFC functions on your car.

 

Hmmm, you may be onto something......
I don't actually have a PFC yet but hope to eventually. Sounds like I'd have to tote around a laptop, too, to make it work? Still, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks!

 

I didn't think that DataLogit did real time displays. I thought it just created files that could be imported into excel and then charted.