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HI everyone! I've just been mulling over a new head unit, since I'm quite tired of my Alpine CDA-9887 and its lack of support for USB without a third party adaptor. I'm quite sick of everything third party, that Alpine offers, and i'm no longer of the mind to support this money minded company. I've decided to sell my Alpine CDA-9887 and get a new head unit.
Now I'd need a couple of things in the new head unit, they are:
1. FLAC support over USB {my 9887 allows one to play ALAC's from the ipod. I dont want that. i want to use the DAC of the head unit and not the Wolfson DAC of the iPod. In fact I want the ipod to just function like a hard drive for my music. Processing from the iPod is not what I need}
2. USB & iPod integration
3. TIME ALIGNMENT
4. 24bit D/A Burr Brown DAC
5. Option to go 2-way active (3-way is a long way off for me)
6. Sound quality must be on par or better than the 9887. No compromises here.
thats it. this is what i need. Bluetooth: Good if its present. Not of paramount importance, though.
I want to spend not more than $400. and i have the Kenwood Exclelon KDC-X991 in mind. But i really dont know if it does FLAC. if it doesn't, its going out of the window.
Now I'd need a couple of things in the new head unit, they are:
1. FLAC support over USB {my 9887 allows one to play ALAC's from the ipod. I dont want that. i want to use the DAC of the head unit and not the Wolfson DAC of the iPod. In fact I want the ipod to just function like a hard drive for my music. Processing from the iPod is not what I need}
2. USB & iPod integration
3. TIME ALIGNMENT
4. 24bit D/A Burr Brown DAC
5. Option to go 2-way active (3-way is a long way off for me)
6. Sound quality must be on par or better than the 9887. No compromises here.
thats it. this is what i need. Bluetooth: Good if its present. Not of paramount importance, though.
I want to spend not more than $400. and i have the Kenwood Exclelon KDC-X991 in mind. But i really dont know if it does FLAC. if it doesn't, its going out of the window.