Eclipse used to make damn nice head units. DAMN nice.

Then they sold out.

I'll said what I said in another thread:

In previous years, Eclipse used upwards of 5 servos on their head units. These servos adjusted based on the temperature and the thickness of the disk they were reading. They were virtually skip proof. In fact, some sales people were known to have drilled a few 1/8" holes through the disks and still play them without any skipping or missing thanks to Eclipses error correction algorithm and these servos.

Also, previously they had one of the best CD transports on the market. Now they are using a much, much lower quality DVD transport.

Quality isn't what sells any more. Pretty flashy spinny buzzy boppy things sell.

Alpine HU's are good if you get the PXA-H701 to go with them.

Pioneer's P9 Combo.

Clarion DRZ9925 (I think that's the model - it's their top of the line)

Nakamichi, Denon, and McIntosh are supposed to be good, although I don't have any experience with them. Also the Ural CCD (Now a Helix unit I beleive) was supposed to be good.

The Alpines with that slide controller work incredibly well with the iPod.