Sound Card and Head Unit

**cadence117** · 04-19-2004, 07:05 PM

I have this soundcard:
here

and need a suggestion for a head unit that is cheap and would best utilize this sound card in my subaru impreza carputer. It is a Turtle Beach 5.1-Channel Audio Sound Card, and i want to best use it with a head unit on my stock car stereo that has 4 speakers and a sub.

Suggestions for a head unit?
Explanation of wiring to it?

**falconey** · 04-23-2004, 09:08 AM

First you need to define cheap. You're cheap could be 300 bucks or it could be 100 bucks.

**falconey** · 04-23-2004, 09:14 AM

http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/produ...id=05730151000

This is cheap, by any standards. I've never used Aiwa before, but for the price and the with aux in it's work checking into. Of course it probably won't offer the same type of control over sound as if you were to spend around the 200 dollar range.

**Pogi** · 04-24-2004, 03:46 AM

I would find something with RCA out puts, with a headunit that has RCA Aux input. it might not be cheep, but itle save much headache in the future.

**lgbr** · 04-26-2004, 12:08 PM

You're not going to get any better sound by using a head unit. No head unit that I know of fully supports surround sound input. Try going with an amplifier, and perhaps using the Head Unit's RCAs to the Line In jack on your computer.

**HiJackZX1** · 02-12-2008, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by lgbr

You're not going to get any better sound by using a head unit. No head unit that I know of fully supports surround sound input. Try going with an amplifier, and perhaps using the Head Unit's RCAs to the Line In jack on your computer.

The PC paired with amps will give you ultimate sound quality..... I have a SoundBlaster Live USB. At 16 bit, the sound is nice, but at 24 bit, its super niceeeeeeeeeeeeee. Infact ive decided to upgrade to a 5.1 setup to see how it sounds.