well hate to end this thread but im not going to be getting one soon now that my car got keyed. Got to paint he new bumper and decided to paint my hood and tint my windows. That with paying for the quaife lsd and install has my funds tied up for 2 months. Maybe i can ask my gf for it for xmas?

 

Try this.......Sony WX7700MDX. Perfect cosmetic match to the Z interior including infinitely adjustable color display. CD/MD player with changer & aux device control cpability. Great DSP/EQ functions. 54watt x 4 internal power amp....all for $750

 

Not to change the story here, but why do so many Zs get keyed? It seems I read about it happening a lot here.

I don't want to toot my horn, and pray to God this never happens, but I've never had a car keyed.

 

ok, im a recent 03 touring Z owner... i have to say that the Bose system im my Z is worse than my last stock system in my 94 integra... really....... so im interested in getting something that is going to really sound good... not blast my ears out, but really awesome sound quality and look..... i would like GPS, and im considering getting a factory original installed to seperate it from the radio... i don't mind spending a few bucks as long as its quality... the eclipse looks nice, but is it really practical? please help.....

 

Speedracer, that's a very nice HU! I had seen pix of that but never on a Z. Best thing about it is that it is close to Z's interior lighting color....though color to match with aftermarket HUs.

 

Cost more but its a beauty is the Eclipse, but for half the price I got myself the Kenwood DDX8017... No nav but I didnt need it anyway.

 

Thanks! I'm very much into having things match well cosmeticly. I saw this unit on this website a while back and knew I had to have it when I did my audio upgrade. The color match is, in fact, perfect to the interior lighting of the Z, as is the styling with the brushed aluminum and round dials. The lettering on the unit also illuminates red and therefore matches the red on the stock gauges as well. It has great DSP functions including several different imaging functions that have been very helpful since I have a roadster and the sound is WAY different with the top up vs. down.

 

hi im about to install a clarion vrx935vt head unit, im a complete newbie bout this stuff
whats single din and double din??
is this a good deck for a roadster?
thx

 

What ever you do avoid Alpine CDA-98xx line like the plauge. They are HORRIBLE!

Here's why:
The sound is very difficult to get right and there are controls that are not explained.
The Sirius controls are the worst I have ever seen; you can't change channels and have the channel name displayed immeditaly, it cuts off the end of long song titles & channel data, the catagory search is so flakey as to be unusable.
The controls are inconsistent, they change function depending on what you're doing.
Browsing MP3 folders is a huge pain and again the display is retarded. I don't care what folder number it is morons, I want to know the folder NAME! (this is the same idiotic functionality as the Sirius portion where it tells you a number instead of a name, it makes you wait 3 seconds to see the name).


Overall I am boycotting Alpine for the azz raping they gave me on my 9835. Not to mention that their higher end units are stuidly high priced compared to the Eclipse series of units (http://www.eclipse-web.com/)

 

No disprespect, but Oh MY GAWD! That has got to the be ugliest HU I've ever seen. It looks like one of those crazy boom boxes where they glue all that plastic on them to make them look "cool."



But hey, to each his own. If that's what you like who cares what I think. =)

 

I have the above unit, and everywhere I go where people are into cars, the above head unit attracts the most attention, esp. when I display the features. Like you say, to each his own, but what really looks like your second picture is the single din Alpine units that people put in the Z dash, they look so out of place and tacky that they make me sick. Esp. those wierd green slanted buttons. Those units remind me of when people used to mount aftermarket radios under the dash.

 

Well.....I guess it was bound to happen sometime, but you are the first person that has had ANY kind of negative comment about this head unit. If you find it ugly, you must also find the interior of a 350Z ugly. The design of the unit so perfectly matches the interior design of a 350Z, that you almost have to do a double take to realize it is an aftermarket head unit.

While the boom box you have shown is, no doubt, tastelessly excessive, please explain to me how two round dials make this head unit tastelessly excessive. The interior of the Z has a "round" motif in combination with brushed aluminum accents. The main gauges, auxillary gauges, side air vents and climate controls are all round. In fact, the dials on the Sony head unit are almost exactly the same size as the auxillary gauge pods. The illumination color is a perfect match. Even the light-up red lettering on the head unit matches with the red needles on the gauges, and the brushed aluminum face is a perfect match to the interior of the car. It also has a level of sound customization I have never seen in any other head unit.

Obviously you are entitled to your opinion, but if you make a blanket statement like "the ugliest head unit I have ever seen", please try to give some objective details about why, just as I have given some objective details about why I think it is a perfect match for the 350Z interior.

 

+1 I have not changed my head unit to a double din nav unit because this unit looks so stock.

 

i have the valor double din with the screen/dvd headunit... and da sound is way better then my stock.. i actually got the the valor screen/dvd headunit for $400 flat... you can check it out at http://www.valordvd.com/product/Prod...p?pc=combodeal .... the sound output is 40wattx4 channel i think... but overall is very happy with the sound and the screen...

 

I have a sweet Alpine Japanese Double DIN head unit I have decided to sell, and would love to see someone with a Z buy it. Forgive me for posting this here, I thought it would be relevant:

Click here for ebay auction