anyone know where the best/cheapest place to get eclipse h/u's?? opinions on them??

 

Eclipse only sells through authorized dealers. Anything you find online will be gray market stuff and won't carry a warranty. Through authorized dealers, you're not likely to find much variation in price.

I've found that the eclipse head units are nice. Their lower end stuff offers no-frills performance without the bullsh*t features that all the other companies provide. But... you pay more for less.

Their higher end stuff is nothing short of fantastic. Once you get above the $450-500 threshold their stuff really gets good, and provides clean output that I don't feel is matched by any other brand for under $1000.

My one complaint about eclipse is that their ergonomics suck, and their blue illumination doesn't match any of my cars, so I won't buy it. My Corvette came with one that's a couple years old, and unfortunately, that particular line was what gave eclipse their "e-skips" nickname. Their newer stuff doesn't skip though.

 

try ebay??

 

i would be careful with ebay, specially bcuz of the ESN number.

 

i am an authorized eclipse retailer, and i love them, i use an old 8051 in my car, and i wouldnt have it any other way.

durable,clean,simple. and that is just fine by me.

if you want fancy the 8443 and the 8053 both have 13 band parametric eq/ built in crossovers and a host of other useful stuff is SQ is your gig.

the displays do leave a little to be desired if you like shiny things, but it HAS gotten better since the '02 models.

the 3403 is a very simple easy to use MP3 player available for about 180$.


jim, do you have a 55090... or one of the other 5 digit model numbered ones?

 

search eclipse online.. google it.. try www.audiooutfitter.com they always have stuff for cheap... beware tho like audiobahn u can get the real stuff for cheap but if it breaks.. uhoh your sol..... eabay is good if u check the ratings first( ebay retailers will do anything to keep good ratings so theyll replace stuff no questions asked most of the time)....

 

ESN isnt that the security key thing to make it work??? i dont have any first hand expirience with eclpipse but mags and most ppl hold them highly

 

onebandwagon...you say you are an authorized retailer, do you have a site?? anyone know of any websites that are authorized dealers...they seem to be hard to find. i was particularly interested in their newer all-in-one head units with touch screen. anyone had experience with them??

 

Of course. I don't remember the model number, but it is one of the 5 digit jobbers that they had all the skipping problems with. If I decide to get XM in the car, I'll be dumping it in favor of something that's got an aux input soon.

 

jim, the 2004 gear is coming to the market soon, and a SIRIUS tuner is going to be amongst it.


Eclipse does not sell through internet or trans shipping. if i were to, they would pull the company i work for's dealer authorization and we would be S.O.L. That is why it's hard to find.


adam

 

im looking into eclipse but how can i find an auth'd dealer..... its freakin hard!!!

 

I'd be willing to bet that their website lists them.


Anyway onebadwagon, I'm not interrested in sirius, plus whatever I buy is probably going to be a self contained unit so that I can easily move it from car to car, which is why I need the aux inputs.

 

i certainly understand that, jim.

if you are trying to find your nearest eclipse dealer, call 1800 55 ECLIPSE



adam

 

When i bought my camaro it had a eclipse HU in it... The guy i got it from said he unhooked the battery, and the HU went into its little lockup phase. I never got to use it because sending it back to eclipse was such a huge pain in the ***. but to the point i personally would never buy a used eclipse HU. other then that i thought it looked pretty slick...

 

lol its supposed to lock up... and ur supposed to have the security cd to unlock it

 

Exactly, supposed to have. the guy i got it from gave me the 'security CD' which he said was the new Santana album, but no go. im saying if you buy a used eclipse hu, make sure you can unlock it

 

lmao the new santana.ahahahahahahaha omg...... ti supposed to be some cd eclipse gives u not a freakin music cd.... he prolly jacked that radio

 

no it isn't, it's whatever cd you want it to be. i could make the newest Dr. Phil my key cd if i cared to.


adam

 

rofl for real?? did he give you the cd key or did you have to buy the new santana. cuz maybe the cd what encrypted or something

 

aahhhh! thats why the cd for my friends was metallica! we were like WTF? that cant be the right cd.

 

lol when i test drove the car it had the santana cd in it, but when he dropped it off there was no CD. so i just got a new HU.

 

theoretically it CAN be the same album, like if you make it the real copy of Master Of Puppets, and you use another Retail copy of master of puppets it should/might work.

but if you dont want to find out (i sure as hell dont), keep your original.

 

lmao jeez what a guy huh. id slap him for being dumb and not giving you the cd.. in fact slap ur self for not getting it.

 

hahahaha im kind of glad he didn't give me the cd. i hate santana. Plus i needed a HU with inputs for my ipod.

 

It just has to be the same cd. Like if you do master of puppets..any master of puppets will do. With mine i was doing work on my car, disconnected the battery. Hooked it back up and was like ****, i left my cd's at school (40 min away). But i knew my uncle had the cd i needed, so i went to his house, and used his. From what i gather, it just stores the TOC as the key, so any copy of the same cd will work.

 

yeah, it does just store the TOC, but it doesnt always work, trust me.


if there have been any modifications to the recording, scratches, etc, it is very possible it wont work.


adam