[gladiator]

Hi everyone, I was thinking about changing my car's sound system as it has gone old.
I have got good reviews about Pioneer's Car sound system but still I would like to know more about it.
Has anyone been using Pioneer's Car sound system or ever used it?

[Brian]

I don't know anything about auto systems...but generally Pioneer is a great name in audio/video.

[Phil A]

Crutchfield usually has good info and a great chart about head unit compatibility (I've used it over the years). I went with the upgraded factory sound system in my 2007 CR-V. I wanted the model with everything in it and it came that way and sounds really good. It's got a sub under the passenger seat, a changer between the two front seats, a single disc player and a computer card reader behind he navigation screen (that both play MP3s) and a jack in the glove box which I plug my Zune into. I have one of those huge subs (upstairs doing nothing that is about 4 years old that I traded for)) that is difficult to lift that I thought about doing a car sound system in but then I remember my 1995 Jimmy when everytime I wanted to haul something bigger I'd have to at a minimum move the sub I had or in a few cases go home and remove it. I've always liked Pioneer's stuff for the car. In the 1995 Jimmy I left the factory cassette alone (I had lots of cassettes) and added a 70W amp to drive the sub. The installer at the audio shop had seen me many times before buying home audio and he snickered a bit before he installed it but after listening to it he had a $1.5k install next to it and liked mine better. That car was the last one I have done anything to and I left the factory head unit in and that was over a dozen years ago (I've gone through many cars between then and now so I gave up with the hassle of changing the factory systems as I have done in the past). With iPods and Zunes and other devices today, a really expensive head unit is only for the really die hard car audio nut. As long as you can plug something like an iPod in and hide it when you leave the vehicle, you're better off spending money on speakers and/or amps.