Just in case this comment was in reference the following lines from my previous post in this thread...
RMk wrote:
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Previously all of my speakers were hooked up to an low-end, older-model Alpine cassette deck which had basically no features.
CLASSVT wrote:
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Any halfway decent HU is going to sound better than a tapedeck from 1982. Pioneer HU's are solid as hell.
The "older-model cassette deck" to which I referred was the high-end cassette deck of Alpine's 2001 line. Oh, and I don't listen to any Easy-E or anything like it. 
Moreover (because I'm like that), my Alpine head units (all nine that I've had experience with) did not have loose buttons and the rotary dials for volume were perfect for me. It takes less of my concentration away from actually driving (what you're supposed to be doing in a car) than holding down a button to raise or lower the volume... and yeah, 48x4 max wattage is pretty old fashioned.
.RMk.. 
