Alpine CDA-7894 - any owners here?

[johnny boy]

I'm looking at getting a new car stereo and am seriously leaning towards this particular unit. MP3 support is a must.

Does anybody have any opinions on this?

Regards

John

[hughjayteens]

Was looking at this myself - my advice is to wait for the 9815 which is due out soon as it adds wma capability at the same price.

Lots of guys on www.talkaudio.co.uk have 7894s and rate them very highly.

[johnny boy]

Thanks for that,

I'm not too bothered about WMA - I have just bought a home MP3 player so all my CDs are now on one large HDD

Plus, thanks to your talkaudio link, I've just spotted this for £300 inc vat and delivery!

Impulse buy coming up I think!

Cheers

John

[cb-dave]

I've got the 7893 and it's cracking - SQ is amazing and the build quality is superb. The 7984 gives: blackout (to disable the screen to 'save power'), three 4v preouts (instead of the 4v sub out and 2.2v preouts on mine), a remote control as standard and blue/silver fascia.

Installing it isn't too bad but you do need to run a seperate live from the battery and a seperate earth as it can pull up to 20a on full chat... just something to be aware of!, also you'll need to hide the DC-DC convertor for the preouts somewhere, it can create interference so somewhere away from speaker wires would be the best solution!

[DennisTheMenace]

You cant go wrong with an Alpine , ive got a CVA-1000R motorised multimedia headunit and sound quaility is excellent, Ive also got a multimedia headunit made by kenwood and DVD player etc for sale (shameles plug
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Sorry ted i will go stand in the corner of my moniter

>> Edited by DennisTheMenace on Monday 24th March 18:12