[quote=mgithens;1110461]that's the best thing about the meet, just about everyone there has a system of some sort and they know the benefits and efforts!! I get so tired of having people tell me that their buddy has an alpine, kenwood, etc... it can do all this stuff... blah, blah... carputer trumps anything from Car Toys, etc...
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I appriciate the idea of the in car computer, My question still remains "Can it do what high end Car Decks are designed to do?" produce exceptionaly clean sound. For the "gadget side of the in car expirence I think the "carputer" is excellent. Navigation, video and muisic storage and playback, phone interfacing nothing beats the feature capabilities of the carputer. But for those of us who require pure clean sound with out all the "hype" I feel the in car computer can not hold a torch to better high end car headunits. They can not produce the higher voltage signal outputs with a cleanly filtered signal.
This truck is my first attempt at building a system with an in car computer and even though we are using an excellent Alpine piece for processing I still have my doubts, but much like Slinkytoy has always trusted my knowledge about getting the sound right I trust him in getting the computer right. I guess from there only time will tell.
I guess my point to this is do not know what your friends say about their "Store" bought head units as they may do somethings your computer can not.
Bryan