best cd-player?

noobaslt

never left your cd player in car when you in supermaket...

i wanna ask about best cd-player around 200$-300$ maybe more...

eloplayspolo

bset for what, sound? ease of use? features?

noobaslt

i wanna sound be good and maybe usb feature

engtaz

KENWOOD eXCELON players are very good.

eloplayspolo

will u be using an amp or just the head unit ?

noobaslt

apm will connect sub only

eloplayspolo

in that case your RCA's will not matter much, i would recomend a pioneer premier or regular pioneer, they look great, sound great, perform lots of functions, have subwoofer control, and aren't too bad in price at all.

engtaz

eloplayspolo wrote: »

will u be using an amp or just the head unit ?

the Kenwood model supports it and has Burr-Brown a/d.

PoweredByDodge

i despise pioneer.

Panasonic are, in my opinion, the best 'poor man's' head units on the planet -- extremely cheap for what they offer you as far as features and quality, and they perform adequately. For $200 you can get one hell of a Panasonic deck. But, they are by no means 'the best', just a nice option when you're on a tight **** budget.

Kenwood Excelon are, at this point in time, what I feel to be the highest quality, best options (every option on my KW X is useful and effective... no glitz, no glam... just a lot of good features and no ****). I used to (as many people did) reserve the title of 'best' for Alpine, but those days are long gone. Kenwood's where it's at, unless you want to dump a pile of change on a McIntosh (which just happens to be designed about an hour south of me).

exalted512

As a dealer of Kenwood, Clarion, JVC, and Pioneer, Pioneer is hands down the most reliable. The 960 is the exception, but every other radio weve had maybe 3 come back in the 2 years Ive been there. Weve had about 6 Clarions and almost over 10 Kenwood decks come back with something wrong. And we sell more Pioneer than anything else...
-Cody

dudeinaroom

I've had Kenwoods, Pioneers, Clarions, etc. as far as band for the buck, and reliability I would go with a pioneer, and they have plenty of features to boot.

eloplayspolo

Do me a favor and hold a pioneer and then hold a panasionic, the panasonic feels mickey mouse, almost like a toy

PoweredByDodge

Panasonic is cheesey -- I don't deny that. But for a $200 deck, you get 3 pre-outs at 2.5 volts, their version of BBE (SHDB er whatever its called), bass / mid / trebble, mp3 / wma playback, satellite ready (sometimes), aux input (in varying flavors that may require you to cut a harness but it works), a flip down detachable face that doesn't break the first time you pull it off the deck, respectable S/N ratio, and overall decent (note, decent, not great) quality.

It's not a bad purchase considering for $200 with another company, you may get an overall more sturdy and higher quality deck, but it'll be pretty damn bare bones.

That being said, I've have nothing but bad luck with Pioneers. Two broken (admittedly they were both purchased used from previous owners and may very well have had the living crap beaten out of them by stupid owners), one that had such a 'fat' flip down face (it was a standard din but the faceplate had almost no trim ring around it) that it wouldn't open properly in the dash opening... made for real fun.

noobaslt

i found on forum some good stuff like
Pioneer DEH-P880PRS and Eclipse CD7000
both are good loking. Now i wana know which is better
and because im buying one of these then ill have too upgrade my speakers and all other ...
so.. i wana that you tell my what i could buy for good sound? tell me in set's
i will wait for your opinios will be glad to hear it

MacLeod

That Pioneer has a ton of tuning features. Time alignemt, pretty solid crossover and independant L/R 16 band EQ. That would be the one I take.

Im with Vinny on the Pannys. They make very good head units and are generally loaded with features. Plus they look pretty good too. I have no problem recommending them to people.

eloplayspolo

eclipse for sound quality and pioneer for features. if u are using an amp that is.

RuSsMaN

Another vote for Panny, albiet limited CA experience.

Solid decks, almost bulletproof. Nothing that will impress the masses, but solid nontheless.

Cheers,
Russ

Bill Ayotte

MacLeod wrote: »

That Pioneer has a ton of tuning features. Time alignemt, pretty solid crossover and independant L/R 16 band EQ. That would be the one I take.

I have this unit, and while it has all of these features, and sounds pristine with all stock speakers, said features are a pain in the **** to setup, the menus also suck in my opinion as well....It takes a while to get used to the way it works...That said, I still recommend it because I think after all is said and done, it is the best head unit SQ wise I have ever owned...The buttons get a little mushy over time as well....It will take a solid day to do all of the auto alignment and to tweak it the first time around...It will take another day or two to really get it dialed in....It will cost you another $50 in order to hook your iPod up though...Separate box. I was slightly angry about this...:mad:

Thom

noobaslt wrote: »

and maybe usb feature

The Alpine iDA- X001 is quite nice.

dohcmark8

Kenwood eXcelon X491 or Pioneer DEH-P6900UB for iPod control. They both feature iPod control via USB for very fast operation and also transport the audio digitally to the HU for the best SQ.

Only Alpine deck I can recommend at the moment is the CDA-9887.

I'd pick the Pioneer DEH-P880PRS though if you want no-frills with a ton of tuning features and great SQ.

noobaslt

thanks all for their opinions i ll try Pioneer DEH-P880PRS