Quote: Originally Posted by
disker 
Not quite B&W - you of course have the backdrop on the unit (check Alpine's WWW site - many available) and most of the text is white. The picture doesn't show it too well but the icons are mostly light blue.

Cool.
Did you get the H701 or are still on the fence about it? I was wondering if a monitor was hooked up to the 9861 and you went into the H701 control mode if you would get a nice big display with more info than what you see on the 9861's faceplate. Kind of like what you see on the high end Alpine Multimedia units.
Anyway, did you sort out your sound quality problem from earlier? I think I ran out of things to suggest.