UT_Evo

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You're one of the people that uses the album scroll thing on the ipod aren't you?

Anyway, I'm surprised Alpine's doesn't display album artwork. Their dedicated iPod players display it. I know my iDA-X001 displays it perfectly. Regardless, I would go with Alpine. Especially since you can then get the blackbird and have a portible navigation system.

element2zz

i have an alpine

I really like the all the features, i have the blue tooth module and ipod connection....I really want the blackbird but its a little pricey

all in all the alpine is reliable and works nicley....

if anyone knows where i can get the blackbird really cheap let me know..!

heres a pic

EvolvedVIII

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You can get the older blackbird 1 for about $150 on ebay. The 2 is like $4-500 though.

strife

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I have the Alpine IVA-W505. its a beautiful unit. I had the Blackbird 2 put it looked like %!@# on the high res screen of the W505. I returned it an got the newer NVE-P1 (same as blackbird 2 but without the screen.) it does have the text to speech but it sounds like a drunk girl that was hit in the head with a brick! I like it for the most part but the bluetooth doesn’t work with my iphone yet.

strife

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oh ya, the NVE-P1 add-on to the head unit was only $300, thats cheap for a new unit.

cchan3761

Yes I am! I already have it so I might as well use it + it looks a lot cleaner...surprised the DVD player's don't have it. The iDA-X001 looks pretty neat

cchan3761

Not sure if Microsoft is having their cashback promotion where if you use the "buy it now" feature on Ebay they will give you a 30% cashback in 60 days....if they do, I'm sure you can find a blackbird 2 for a good price.

Nkryptd1

I used to be a hardcore Pioneer fanboy... But once I heard my first Alpine I was hooked. If your into great sound I would go for the Alpine. If your into bass I would go for Pioneer.

UT_Evo

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My albums are so messed up that that would never work. The X001 is great, the newer ones are even nicer, one of em has HD radio and a button to push to auto dl songs from itunes when you hear em on the radio. It looks like they even have a double din that is in the ipod happy family... if you could handle going that route.

evovin

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Pioneer
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1202649426440

cchan3761

My albums were all messed up too but then after i got my iPhone I kept staring at my f***ed up artwork and was tired of it so I spent A LONG time to organize it. Now that its all organized, I think it'll be a lot more convenient. The new X001 doesn't play DVDs though

cchan3761

Yeah that looks nice but I don't see where it shows the Album Artwork

UT_Evo

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All of them are lacking a cd/dvd player because they are fully usb compatible (and they can't play DVD video anyway). I have a backup 2gb flashstick in my car with music on it in case I forget my ipod or something (which won't happen now since I always have my iphone and my touch usually stays in the car). But album view only works with ipod units (obviously), still, the fact that I can hook up a 250 gb hard drive and have all my music to access just via usb is pretty cool.

Anyway, for DVD player you'd have to go with the W505, but that's double din. I'm surprised they have it but not a single din to double din screen player. And for navigation + W505 + custom install you'd be over 2000 almost for sure.

And as an aside: I wish apple would make a way to turn off the album artwork thing when I turn my idevices sideways. Hate the album scroll, and NEVER going to organize all my albums (since I have about a bunch of albums with only one song from each album) but I totally get what you mean by being bothered by the gross albums when it displays. All of mine that are important have album pictures now at least.

Actually, getting the X001 is what inspired me to start fixing the album artwork, since on all the views but the "clock alone" view it displays at least a thumbnail of the artwork.

Titaztik

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If you do decide to go with a Double-Din the Alpine W505 DOES do album artwork on the screen. I noticed that you said that was something that you really wanted. Just thought I'd give you that tid bit of information

Adam

RedlineX79

Definately Alpine all day long!!! My first Alpine was a IVA-W205 (same as above pic) and the sound this thing produced blew away anything else out there. That was my last car and I sold it along with the car. The interior speakers were stock and I had 1 JL 12W1 with an Alpine V12 amp for the sub only and the freaking sound quality was unreal. I have pretty much used the same audio shop for all my past systems and this time around they were literally dumbfounded on the sound quality. I've spent tons of money on aftermarket speakers with huge power and to be honest, this Alpine with the STOCK Toyota speakers sounded probably just as good if not better.

I plan to get the IVA-W505 for my EVO. I hope the Fosgate interiors are good enough to handle this unit. I really don't want to have to swap them out.