HolySh!t Alpine makes our stock deck
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Originally Posted by alex053
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Rep Power: 0 Once your radio breaks connection with your battery it
locks itself. It just blinks "code" waiting for the
rightful owner or a auth dealer to enter the code.
but i am sure people have a way around this.
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locks itself. It just blinks "code" waiting for the
rightful owner or a auth dealer to enter the code.
but i am sure people have a way around this.
- matt
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stupid question:
how does the security code thing work? i know its something to do with the immobilizer, but have no idea beyond that.
how does the security code thing work? i know its something to do with the immobilizer, but have no idea beyond that.
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Rep Power: 0 When I used to do car stereo installs for a living, I talked to my Alpine rep about them manufacturing stock cd players (They manufacture a good percent for a good number of cars, Land Rover, etc...) He said that the reason that the car CD players aren't as advanced as the aftermarket ones is that when the company manufactures headunits for cars, they have to do it 5 years BEFORE the car is set to he released. So the radio for a 2005 was invented at least in 2000, often times the things had been R&Ded many more years before, as Honda doesn't change their radios very often. Actually, did you know that Alpine has a $25 Million Dollar one fo a kind state of the art research center facility? They put their products through all sorts of hell and various testing against electrical interference, light seneitivity, durability, acoustics, temperature testing. Its actually highly advanced. Check it out here.
http://www.alpine.com/e/corporate/evaluation/index.html
http://www.alpine.com/e/corporate/evaluation/index.html
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Originally Posted by tbaleno
And pioneer makes our speakers. Have you seen our speakers? not realy pioneer quality.
Yet I tossed in a Clarion HU and everyone thinks I have a sub in my ride. My Si/EX hasn't got one speaker upgrade in it...just the HU.
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Originally Posted by Pharoh
Yet I tossed in a Clarion HU and everyone thinks I have a sub in my ride. My Si/EX hasn't got one speaker upgrade in it...just the HU.
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Originally Posted by tbaleno
How can those speakers with those 1/2" sized magnets sound good. Maybe they are different in my hybrid sedan or something.
dunno but they sound great....Clarion can make anything sound nice..lol.
seriously...stock tweeters, stock doors and rear deck.....EVERYONE thought I had a sub in the car and love how it sounds inside.
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Rep Power: 301 clarion makes the stock am/fm radio found on DX civics
the stock alpine cd player sounds like crap. if it was true that it's crap just because they predesign those things several years ahead, then why do the 5th generation prelude stereo sound waaaaay better than a stock civic system?
when comparing my civic si(usa ex), with a friend's stock 99 prelude stereo, it can be easily noticed that his system produces way more bass and much better highs than the stock civic stereo w/ stock tweeters.
i think the civic stereo sounds like crap just because honda cheaped out. btw, anyone ever notice that the Philips EQ chip inside the civic deck has a loudness function but honda never enabled the feature. you should be able to control bass/treble then also have a loudness function.
the stock alpine cd player sounds like crap. if it was true that it's crap just because they predesign those things several years ahead, then why do the 5th generation prelude stereo sound waaaaay better than a stock civic system?
when comparing my civic si(usa ex), with a friend's stock 99 prelude stereo, it can be easily noticed that his system produces way more bass and much better highs than the stock civic stereo w/ stock tweeters.
i think the civic stereo sounds like crap just because honda cheaped out. btw, anyone ever notice that the Philips EQ chip inside the civic deck has a loudness function but honda never enabled the feature. you should be able to control bass/treble then also have a loudness function.
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Rep Power: 332 turboslug...it's a civic, im sure honda's last concern was to make the sound system top notch. If that were the case, they wouldnt have stuck lx/dx's with am/fm radio's or tape decks. Don't bother comparing the prelude to the civic, the prelude was aimed towards a much different market, and it will out-perform the civic in just about every category except for gas milage and trunk space.
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Rep Power: 787 [QUOTE=Pharoh]dunno but they sound great....Clarion can make anything sound nice..lol.QUOTE]
hardly, I think my clarion sounded awful
I just switched from Clarion to Eclipse and the difference is like night and day
hardly, I think my clarion sounded awful
I just switched from Clarion to Eclipse and the difference is like night and day
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Originally Posted by SkipBarber
turboslug...it's a civic, im sure honda's last concern was to make the sound system top notch. If that were the case, they wouldnt have stuck lx/dx's with am/fm radio's or tape decks. Don't bother comparing the prelude to the civic, the prelude was aimed towards a much different market, and it will out-perform the civic in just about every category except for gas milage and trunk space.
if what he said was true, then shouldn't the 7th gen stock cd player be up to par with the 97 prelude cd player since the 7th gen civic cd player design should be roughly 5 years newer than the prelude one? like you said, the answer is no because honda cheaped out because the civic is mainly an econobox. it's not because of the technology available at the time.
the 1.7el is more proof that honda cheaped out. the 1.7EL is supposed to be a luxury sedan loaded with bells and whistles yet honda still used the same crappy civic stereo.
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I dunno..I got my clarion a couple of years ago and I'll hold onto it for awhile..I'm not looking to build a system. Just like it to sound nice and it does. I don't know who actually made the OEM deck but I can't even find mine anymore..lol
Originally Posted by Pharoh
dunno but they sound great....Clarion can make anything sound nice..lol.QUOTE]
hardly, I think my clarion sounded awful
I just switched from Clarion to Eclipse and the difference is like night and day
hardly, I think my clarion sounded awful
I just switched from Clarion to Eclipse and the difference is like night and day
I dunno..I got my clarion a couple of years ago and I'll hold onto it for awhile..I'm not looking to build a system. Just like it to sound nice and it does. I don't know who actually made the OEM deck but I can't even find mine anymore..lol
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Rep Power: 301 [QUOTE=MegaHurtz] lol...and you used to tell people that your clarion rocked...
Originally Posted by Pharoh
dunno but they sound great....Clarion can make anything sound nice..lol.QUOTE]
hardly, I think my clarion sounded awful
I just switched from Clarion to Eclipse and the difference is like night and day
hardly, I think my clarion sounded awful
I just switched from Clarion to Eclipse and the difference is like night and day
