I found a pretty badass cd player for one of my cars, and personally I've never been a fan of Dual.. but what do you guys think? Are they of good quality? Do they produce good sound? Do they last?

Thanks!

 

its crap

 

Well I guess that was an easy post to read

 

My friend had a badass dual cd player in his car, but no matter how cool it looked, it sounded like ****. Plus, it skipped a lot on bumps, but that could just be a result of improper installation.

 

^I've noticed that EVERY Pioneer I've ever owned also skipped over even minuscule bumps.

 

wah wah wahhhh..

 

yeah no dual's try alpine or even a nicer end jvc mine works great

 

I wouldn't give you 2 dead flies for a Dual anything

 

nope dual is **** !

 

most of the stuff that's out nowadays are crap anyhow...alpine/pioneer skimped down on quality

 

Dual? is litterally so horrible.. that i thought this post was a joke at first... but apparently you was really asking.. i honestly don't understand how they can sleep at night building stuff with such shitty quality...

 

I agree with most of the above, Dual is at the lower end, [bottom] of the quality scale, but then again you get what you pay for, and BTW, that's how they sleep at night.

I do not agree, "most of the stuff that's out nowadays are crap anyhow" and although Duel is not the only car audio HU that sit at to bottom of the list, there are some others that share that spot, however, Alpine and Pioneer are not one of them, I would pick an Alpine or Pioneer entry level, [bottom of the line] HU over Duals best, [top of the line] HU and still be way ahead of the game. 94

 

I'll have to look into some Alpine units. I just mainly want something with a big readable screen.. nothing gay, but kind of a "high-tech" looking screen?

 

I have a JVC KD-SH1000 in my car.

I't's not the "greatest" head unit, but I got a screaming deal on it. ($40 bnib) I'm rather impressed with it's sound quality as well as it's features. I give it 4/5 for what it is.

 

thats not a bad looking one!

I want a bigger, maybe "bulkier" cd player though, to fill in for a bigger bulkier stock stereo. I'm picky about cd players; I want them to look almost stock and sophisticated when I put them in.. if that makes sense...

 

theres a alpine cda-7995 on ebay going cheap right now ending soon.. its a damn good hu u should consider that. preamp though so u have to be running an amp

 

Oh. You're probably wanting a double din, then. You're going to need a dash kit to install it in your Em2, either way.

 

^It's actually gonna be going into my wifes pt cruiser.. whats a double din and why is it so good?

dohcvtak- thank brah, but i'm looking for a "bigger" or "bulkier" cd player man

 

Chry. PT Cruiser is a 1.5 din, [din and a half] so it is either a kit with a din size HU or find a 1.5 din HU, something like this...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Pioneer-DEH-P77D...3A1%7C294%3A50

There is also the Pioneer DEH-P47DH, CD/DVD flip up screen.

I think Audiovox also makes one, you can also get them from Boss, Jenson and Pyle although the Audiovox one is OK the last 3 are as "junky" as the Duel. 94

 

Ya **** pyle jensen and boss lol. But I like that pioneer you showed me! Very nice! Thanks for the info.. I think I might actually try finding something like that

 

Oh, well, that's a whole other bowl of cereal. .. Double din refers to the size of the head unit. A regular head unit (like mine) is single din.

 

Ah gotcha. I'll start doing searches for din and a halfs. They can be pretty nice right?

 

^^ just get a install kit to run your single din deck.

 

gotcha.

Now, what about getting a single din unit, and getting some sort of equalizer to tuck underneath it? That would look sexy, sophisticated, and the sound would be striking.

 

you may be able to, im not sure. look around and see what the deck kit looks like and if there is room for 1.