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Originally Posted by soundman98
pioneer does make the 80prs now, which covers all of that except the 6.5v preouts. in fact, i can't think of any deck anymore that advertises higher voltage preouts anymore... i ran a 9v preamp for a few years once when i was convinced a distortion issue was in the signal level(turned out to be an issue with the design of a companies passive crossover units related to my usage). never really got into the marketing of the higher voltage preout stuff. i get the concept of a higher signal level creating a lower noise floor, but the reality is if you're getting a whine at 1v preout's, you're going to get the same whine at 6.5v...
i tried a $300 pioneer touchscreen for a little while. it was such a hit someone made off with it after 3 months! but no one touches single din radios. despite the fact that some of them are less replaceable and sometimes more expensive than the touchscreen models.
with the advent of cheap DSP's, i'm finding myself migrating away from deck-based tuning, and moving more towards the more specific options available in things like the dsp-408. i overkilled my truck install putting one in, and now regret that i didn't put on in on the car install. my favorite part is the individual output parametric eq settings. no deck can come close.
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Yeah, I looked at that 80PRS, but it doesn't have the Premier name on it. If I WERE to ever upgrade this Premier deck to a regular Pioneer unit, there's only one model that I would ever consider stepping up to......the DEX-P99RS. 4-way network built into the unit with even better crossovers, more accurate time alignment, more than twice as many EQ set points, still not quite as high voltage on the RCA outputs and no on-board speaker outputs (I'm not using any of the deck's speaker outputs anyways.) But I'm not currently prepared to spend over $1000 on eBay for a used car stereo sight unseen, which is what they're going for right now.
I also looked at the Mosconi Aerospace DSP 8 to 12, but they're selling for $1500. Right now, my current setup is working perfectly fine for me. No whine, very low noise floor out of the Premier. I did notice a bit more noise at zero bits while using the Alpine as an AUX source, but I'm sure you know that the more components in your system, the more noise you'll have. It's just something that is inherent in any analog system.
One other benefit to have with a high voltage signal - your amplifiers don't have to work as hard.