best double din for under $600

whats the best bang for my buck guys?

 

IMO Kenwoods Double Dins are amazing...those and Pioneer

 

I'm a big fan of the eclipse units cause they're mainly plug and play with our trucks. I just picked a used one (avn 5510) from ebay for $300

 

Kenwood DNX5120 hands down

 

and wheres the cheapest place besides ebay to pick one up everywhere i look they are pretty expensive compared to ebay.

 

have it in my car and it is amazing.

Try to get the year previous model. Its like half the price and no different.

 

I did lots of research about this when i was looking for mine a few months ago and I went with the pioneer AVH-4100dvd. It to me seemed like it was the best bang for the buck. I got mine on Amazon for a little less than half off the retail price. I like only thing I don't like is that I thought I was going to be able to hook up portable hard drive to it but it can. You can hook up thumb drives to it no problem. But if money wasn't a problem I would have went with an Eclipse.

 

Sub $600, I think Pioneer is hard to beat for overall reliability, flexibility, and ease of menu navigation.

Over $600 and the top of the line Kenwoods are amazing, with the stellar navigation they use. I just don't like the hamstringing of power and inputs that the lower levels have. It seems like they reverse engineer their units from the flagship, just for extra sales points. Not bad business, per se, just annoying for me when I don't have the cash to buy the $1000 H/U.

For your price point, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an all around better unit than some of the mid level Pioneer units. Other manufacturers produce good stuff, Eclipse, Alpine, and JVC come to mind. However, each of those units has some shortcomings compared to the Pioneer or Kenwood counterparts, IMO.

 

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_17779_Kenwood+DNX5140+-DNX-5140-.html

 

I vote Eclipse AVN62D. Uses the factory plugs and you get to keep your steering wheel controls without using add-ons. Great sound too.

 

I paid less than $600 for my brand Eclipse AVN6620 with iPod module shipped to my door. Couldn't pass up that deal...

 

Yup i got mine for 550 and I had the ipod controller from my previous eclipse deck. I love my AVN6620/AVN62D

 

I think instead of throwing around our worthless opinions based on what WE define as best; we should get the OP to define what HE would consider to be best.

What features should your ideal unit have? What needs should it fulfill?

 

+10000

Can't beat the garmin GPS.

 

He asked for OUR opinions...

 

What color are the buttons. I am hoping they match the color of the Tacomas other buttons, red.

 

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Last time I checked, this forum was about opinions and ideas

 

i would like it to be able to have bluetooth atleast as an add on and I am kindof between the navigation idk if I would use it enough to purchase one because I have a portable tom tom for work.

 

You can add BT to the eclipse but like I said. I think the biggest advantage is the plug and play of the AVN62D