Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Audio Alpine CDA 9833 or the Panasonic MXE CQ-C9800U

Originally posted by chill1110:

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I agree w/ you Honkey, but I am looking for others opinions that may have either played w/ both of them, heard both of them powering speakers or actually own them and can vouch for them.

Opinions wanted and welcome.

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Originally posted by chill1110:

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I am looking for others opinions that may have either played w/ both of them, heard both of them powering speakers or actually own them and can vouch for them.

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FINE....... you called me out As you may have read in previous posts I am officially an alpine fan now as of a couple months ago working in the industry, and have completely redone my system with alpine amps and 9835 headunit. So you may take my remarks as opininonated but I'll list of my reasoning why the 9833 is better than the panasonic.

#1 appearance....
9833...multicolor illumination, the backlighting on the buttons can be changed between I believe 481 colors to perfectly match your dash.
9800U.. Do you know that in the daytime it is chrome?? And that stupid dayglow feature..at night the whole fuggin thing glows blue and lights up your car?? Most either find this really cool or really an eyesore, depending on your highschool "bling" preferance.

#2 Sound.....
9833... there are so many features and custom settings related to sound on the 9833 that I promise you it will take you a month before you fully understand how to work this thing. I dont have that much time to explain them since I have to go to work, but Just have somebody at an alpine dealer give you a demo. You can tweak the 9833 and 9835 so well and so clearly.
9800U... Yes it has a high power amplifier in it, but in my experience it wasn't all that clear. And it got HOT!!!! I remember hearing a couple complaints about CD warping.

#3 Expandability
ok bla bla bla... the panasonic has all the usual features of a top of the line radio.. 3 high volt RCA preouts, Input RCA's etc.
But Alpine has I-personalize and the V-link. In my system upgrade I also included a M501 mono amp and a F540 4-channel
With the V-link I can adjust every little thing on my digital amplifier from my headunit. forget the little "gain control knob" I can control everything down to EQ frequency and slope. It even will tell me the amps, voltage and Temperature of the amplifier.

ok, nuff said for now...gotta go to work.