Need stereo advice

[richardkeith97]

i hope ur decks lights up red. i bought a kenwood and it lit up blue and it looked stupid so i sold it and got a sony xplod just because it was red at night.

[paulkeith]

be aware that without the "imprint" module, some of the features of the 9887 stay locked. For the reason I recently (last week) picked up the 9886. I lose the medianxpander in favor of the bassengine, but at least i'll be able to adjust my bass & treble when I feel like it. It has fewer EQ bands too, but i gained the USB port which sounds like a feature I'll probably use a lot. It also doesn't have some of the illumination color options. I used to spend mad cash on top of the line alpine decks back in 2001/2/3, but pretty much gave up on that. I was extremely disappointed this shopping-go-round to find out alpine requires another $200+ module to unlock the features of its top of the line deck. How times have changed...

Sounds like you got a good system brewing, lets see some pics of the components.

[richardkeith97]

get a monster capacitor and a JL audio w7!! is that a mono amp?

[quickervicar]

My McIntosh MX-401 lights up kinda neutral so I think I'm set. (I love ebay...sometimes ;) )

[Holland]

Post 5 was seriously the most helpful thing I have ever read. I'm using a cd43 with it though.

[rneedham1979]

Thanks for the post. I am planning on using the imprint module so I think I will maintain control over the audio. No?

I picked up an infinity kappa 10" sub with the selectable 2-8 ohm. After talking with Luke about the best sub to use, this is the one he suggested.

As it sits, everything is ordered. The alpine 9887, alpine BT, apline sirrius, 2 sets of kappa component perfects, kappa sub and the kappa amp. I also ordered the sub box from Luke, which I am very excited to see and install!

I need to order an amp kit, rca's and speaker wire now. I am in Iraq so I ma havign all th ecar parts and stereo parts sent to my buddies house. When they arrive I have will have blast off some pictures.

I want to send a big thanks to Luke for helping me with my stereo system!

Ryan

be aware that without the "imprint" module, some of the features of the 9887 stay locked. For the reason I recently (last week) picked up the 9886. I lose the medianxpander in favor of the bassengine, but at least i'll be able to adjust my bass & treble when I feel like it. It has fewer EQ bands too, but i gained the USB port which sounds like a feature I'll probably use a lot. It also doesn't have some of the illumination color options. I used to spend mad cash on top of the line alpine decks back in 2001/2/3, but pretty much gave up on that. I was extremely disappointed this shopping-go-round to find out alpine requires another $200+ module to unlock the features of its top of the line deck. How times have changed...

Sounds like you got a good system brewing, lets see some pics of the components.

[quickervicar]

It's always a shock when the wiring ends up costing more than the head unit. Good luck with the install. Post some pics when you can.

[rneedham1979]

I think I have prepared myself for it LOL... but we shall see.

Ryan

It's always a shock when the wiring ends up costing more than the head unit. Good luck with the install. Post some pics when you can.