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...stereo. I was trying to get my ipod cable working the other day so I took my nice sony deck out to check the fuse on the cable and it worked just fine for another day, then suddenly just wouldn't turn on when I left MAP today. :( Anna bought me this deck for my bday like 6 years ago, I had it in my 1G, in my 2G, and my evo. It served me well, and I have had no real reason to upgrade it.

Anyways, I fiddled with it a bunch and could not get it to come back to life for any decent amount of time, so I thought about letting it sit in the car and rocking no stereo until I found a replacement. Then I remembered I had my stock SSL alpine**edit**infinity deck in my garage, so I slapped it in when I got home tonight. In the 3 years I've owned it, I *think* this is the first stock part I can remember putting back on my evo.

Now to shop for a new deck :)

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Stock SSL is Infinity ;)

Anyway, I really like the Alpine deck I have with iPod controls, but I've also always been a fan of Kenwood decks. Zac also just bought a really nice Pioneer with built-in Bluetooth and iPod controls.

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Go double din :)

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Gah scheides fail.

IDK what I want, feel free to post up links to ideas!

Double din not out of the question, but it would get spensive b/c I'd have to relocate the hvac controls.

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I have a alpine cda9856 that is just sitting around out of my rolla. has the ipod controls i have the same one in my sweet dsm.

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i miss u

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did i miss something?^

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+1 for Kenwood, I love the deck in my car. The iPod controls are nice, especially for trips with passengers, but I really just use the USB for flash drives loaded with music.

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Aww, thx! :D I'm not a huge fan of the Alpine decks, styling is not for me.

Ultimately I want something that's clean, not too flashy when turned off, has easy to access radio presets and a nice ipod interface. I used kracka's Alpine ipod interface and we couldn't figure out how to play anything but a random track LOL.

I'll prolly wait a bit and just rock the stock deck...hrm, maybe hold out for xmas, evo mod money is saving for clutch and snow tires for the GLI...

Anyone played with one of these?
http://www.crutchfield.com/p_158GT93...930UI.html?c=3

or this one:
http://www.crutchfield.com/p_105KDAV...AVX40.html?c=3

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What clutch are you thinkin? I dont mean to get off topic, just curious?

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^^^ That second one looks tits dude, do it.

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If that one is tits, check out this one:

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_105KDAV...l?c=3&tp=20217

Watch the review video on the touchscreen functions...just spin your finger on the face to adjust volume, slide left/right for track forward/prev....wonder how well that works in the winter.....

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If anyone is lookin for audio anything from speakers to subs todexks and amps.. www.dealercostcaraudio.com is the place to go

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HAHA once I figured out the controls (it was set to random, just had to turn that off by hitting a button) I actually like it quite a bit. The only thing I wish is that there was a faster way to scroll through artists.

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...or as you're bouncing down a highway. Sitting at a stoplight sure, but making intricate motions on a touchscreen is going to become a lot more difficult when you're moving on anything but a perfectly smooth road.

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I've had quite a few systems in my previous cars (one swap was due to theft). I don't own an iPod but my favorite is Eclipse heads and CDT Audio for speakers. I've been very pleased with my last few systems, using those at the core.

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Bah, the bilsteins will soak up the bumps, and plenty of practice operating touchscreen interface under less than ideal conditions w/ my iphone. :D

I'm sure there's other stuff out there, I got time to shop.

Just thought of a major downer to even thinking double-din, relocating my HVAC controls would also mean having to relocate my boost and Aquamist gauges...ehhhh.

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you should get the one like Brian Spilners, I hear his stuff is awesome. lol.

On a serious note, when i read "going back to stock" i was in SHOCK! than i saw it was the stereo deck...phew. Anyways, a friend of mine had the dvd touchscreen in his Sentra Spec-V and i thought it was pretty cool but annoying in daylight because you wouldn't see much of the screen at certain angles, plus his car was bumpy as hell. other than that, it was pretty awesome.

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Ever thought about a slide out DVD deck? That's what I have in my DSM and I love it. Mine is the Kenwood KVT-717DVD. It's a touch screen, but also has a remote control. It's kinda old and I don't know if they still make that model, but when it was new it was pretty much the top of the line Kenwood slide-out deck. It takes a separate controller box to control my Ipod through the deck, and the interface kinda sucks, so I just leave it on random, but that's about the only thing I don't like about it.

Another thing I like about it is that when I'm driving at night I don't have a bright-ass 7.5" screen glowing at me if I don't want it out, and when I'm parked it's hard to tell there's a deck in it at all since it looks so plain and bland.

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scheides, I'd be willing to put the deck on my 12v power supply and checking it out if you haven't tossed it yet.