I have always used SONY and I can tell you it is a better deck than a pioneer any day . I have a friend who has exactly the same audio arrangement as i have in my car using pioneer and we played the same cd (wyclefs ecleftic -Runaway track) and men the difference was clear.

This was a deck that was compared as an equal to my SONY on CNET with 5 stars and alldat.

so i think whats good for u might be bad for others. My sony solution is excellent in my car and I dont use subwoofers and all dat .

Besides Pioneers are not too intuitive to use.

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1986 230E (revisions on the way)