I bought a Blaupunkt San Francisco headunit when I was planning on installing a high-end system. As of late, my priorities have changed and I'm going to have to listen to the Bose crap a while longer. This thing sells for well over $500, and I'm in desperate need to sell it. Would anyone like to take this thing off my hands? It is their top-of-the line unit. 5volt preamp outs, remote, the works. Someone contact me if they're interested in a great place to build from.

Thanks,

Jason

p.s. I know this belongs in the "for sale" section, but it won't get any exposure there. Mods, please give me a day or two in here first.

 

Sounds like a nice piece of equipment. I would advise someone to jump on this...if i hadnt just purchased my new deck, i would be all over it. GL Lost..

 

If you wanted to go high end then why buy Blaupunkt? There stuff is notorious for frying amps. You should have not bought that crap.

 

I've actually heard nothing but good things about the San Fran unit. I went Eclipse myself (I bought into the marketing just a little - didn't listen to the Blaupunkt units). Sounded the best to me, but again, the SF is a great unit by all accounts I've seen.

-E

 

Most of their CD product is made by Sony to Blau's specs... so I have to wonder where you heard that crap?

 

Uh because I had two buddies that were all about Blaupunkt and their units kept crapping out on them. I said that because that has been my experiance with them.I stick to my original statement ..

 

fd3, was this a little while back? I know Blaupunkt has only recently (in my mind) risen to the occasion in car stereo. Even now they aren't exactly revered for anything, but I still think that unit is good.

However, if you've seen those problems recently, I stand corrected. I thought they had stepped up.

-E

 

For reliability in head units, I choose JVC. SQ is pretty good, not the best but hard to tell the difference especially with mp3 players. I had a JVC tape deck and cd changer combo for 9 years, the first 4 years it was in my trunk of my Crown Vic with my 1000W RMS 18's. Never skipped (only sometimes on very very bad roads with 18s hitting.) They still play perfectly to this day.

 

The units I was talking about were possibly the exception top the rule.If everyone says they are good then maybe they are. Sony ES still makes the best stuff bar none!!

 

my brother has had a blaupunkt 550 in his jetta for a year or two, still works great and picks up all the local radio stations.

 

high end...

have u heard "ODR" (Optical Digital Reference system)?

hmm... mine got stolen a couple of month ago, and im putting the same one with slightly a different setup.

oh, BTW, i also heard many good things about a Blaupunkt San Francisco headunit

 

rx7 lover: could you toss out a manufacturer or model that has that, sounds fancy just saying it out loud lol.

 

i will have a blaupunkt los angeles put in mine with the kenwood woox sub, some polk components and polk speakers under the dash. should be in in a week or so, ill let u know how it souns

 

I have the Eclipse 5302 it is 6yrs old and still sounds great, I have had no problems with it at all. I also have MB Quart Q's 6.5" in the doors, Eclipse 10" aluminum dvc sub, and a Xtant 3300 amp. the system sounds great and doesn't take up very much space. It is all preatty much high end stuff and I did most of the install myself.

 

it was a top of the line from pioneer years ago.
and its discontinued a few years ago but it seems like they came up with a new headunit in japan(others are the same). one of their unique thing is that they use optical wires from headunit to processor and to amps.

you can dig up some photos and info (all that i could read was only prices ) at http://www.pioneer.co.jp/carrozzeria_x/index.html

hope it helps.

oh BTW, if your interested in digital setup, better check out Alpine F-1 series.

 

Node: one thing i forgot to mention... you can click "Pure Digital System" on the left menu to see the stuff i used to have in my 7 (w/ older headunit).

 

to each his own

as for the best well

J D Power has ranked alpine's F1 status units as the best headunit money can buy ( alot of money )

as far as my personal rankings ( headunits only)

1 alpine all the way baby
2 kenwood
3 eclipse

4 sony
5 clarion
6 pioneer

7 blaupunkt
8 jvc
9 panasonic

as far as fd3's foldout and dvd source

 

Nak has to make this list somewhere if you're talking SQ.