It was late at night when I made the poll.....I could only think of four off the top of my head

 

Be that as it may, Sony MP70 is an awesome unit.

 

piomeer make very reliable and cost minded product, however alpine has the cleanest sound there is short of spending $5000 on a head unit alone. check USAC and IASCA forums for what types of head units they use. most use an alpine. and so do i for that matter!! i work in a stereo shop and can choose whatever i want and i chose the alpine, so it's gotta tell you something

 

kenwood excelon kvt-911 a marvelous pice of art which i am getting on friday

 

kenwood excelon kvt-911 a marvelous piece of art which i am getting on friday

 

true, although most of us dont have $1200-1500 to spend on a head unit alone I really want that unit myself, but can never afford it.

 

Pioneer because of design.
Kenwood uses too small of buttons but they last forever.
I had a CD changer from Kenwood for 8 years in like 4 cars and it finally died when it just couldn't spin the disk anymore.

 

the panasonic 983u looks great in an evo. the deck matches the dash great and the deck lights up blue and matches the recaros nicely. makes the interior not look so cheap.

 

Id go with Alpine, but my Kenwood headunit is holding up very good..i bought it used and it came out a while back but it's still going hard and strong!

 

Im an alpine man myself. but for the best bang for your buck you might want to check out Rampages top of the line deck. Now dont flame me just because its rampage. This deck gives you just about every option you will ever need. Plus its only $150-350 depending on where you get it at. The only down side is that you have to manually push the screen back up after you put a cd in. FYI a friend of mine that placed second in his class at MECA finals last year just switched to this unit after testing many others. He used to use a pioneer but now swears by this unit.

 

sony mp70 mp3 cd player matches the oz rally best, it's silver, and all the knobs and backlighting are red. looks great.

 

I think eclipse makes very good head units. I have the 5442 its a simple cd player with 3 5 volt preouts, automatic moving face and very clean sound.

 

If you have allot of money to buy one you should get the Eclipse DVD head unit. Its great!! If you dont want somthing too flashy then get the Pioneer. Thats great too!!!

 

i got the pioneer premiere deh-p650. sounds really good and has nice graphics

 

i have the kenwood mpv7019. it pretty much kicks ***, and saves me a **** load of money on cds. i love the mp3/cd player, and it has 64 color variations so you can match whatever color scheme you are going for. got it for 250 on base