Originally Posted by tom2112
Well I got my Eclipse AVN7000 head unit installed on Monday.
Is it cool? Hell Yeah!
Is it Crutchfield $2,000 cool? Nope.
Is it eBay $1,400 cool? Nope.
Is it eBay $750 cool? Yeah, I guess so.
Pros: nice 7" screen, only 1 DIN, sounds great (with stock amp, speakers and subs), 20 gig internal hard drive holds nav data so you can listen to CD's while getting Nav
Cons: clunky user interface, not very configurable, won't read data DVD's, you can't copy your MP3's to the 20 gig drive, only takes 128Mb Sony Memory Stick (128Mb!!! What good is that?), Nav data is from 2005 and there are NO updates available!!, my neighborhood/city is NOT in the Nav data!!
My initial impressions from owning this head unit for a few days are that it is over priced, lacks features and polish. I'm generally pretty disappointed with this head unit, especially compared to my car-computer that's in my eclipse. Nothing beats a car-computer for configurability, flexibility, options and features.
Hi, I'm also very interested in that unit. I have some questions for you if you have some time:
Would you be able to post some pics of the headunit in your car? Closed and Open?
Is there another unit you would now rather have? How does the color scheme look? It has blue back lights, correct?
Did the sound improve from the stock speakers? Did you try to use the headunit's amp to see if that would improve the stock speaker's sound?
As of now it is the only unit I know of that is 1 din with a hard drive based navigation all in one. It also has a 7" screen and time alignment which I like.
Thanks,
Dave