advice on choosing a new head unit

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:37 pm

Here's my Becker, awesome peice of kit

It's a quality piece of kit and looks right at home in the E30

I've just had Alpine front and rear speakers fitted last week, superb is all I can say

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:29 pm

The Beckers are spot on imo.

(Expensive though and tbh, given the cost not exactly feature packed)

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:34 pm

pac1982 wrote:Super chav are the stand alone screens people have stuck to there dash or head lining at least with a motorized its tucks away neatly and just looks like a head unit and in my case a very old skool looking head unit

If your willing to spend big bucks and want proper old skool cool then you need one of these bad boys if you can find one.....................

Alpine 7909

That's a proper old skool head unit to run a decent system

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:34 pm

Twin RDS tuners for the best aggregate signal? Surround sound DSP modes? Proper 5-Band Digital EQ? CF Card maps storage to keep CD slot free for music? Traffic Data Nav as standard?

Come on!

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:17 pm

hi love the becker you have where did you get it from? whats the navigation like (postcode entry?) and can you download the phonebook from your phone? finally how useable is the ipod adapter?
thanks

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:31 pm

i have a seperate tomtom and only use it rarely, and can live with it being stuck on the screen as it's easy to see. sod having a sat-nav built into the head unit, not a lot of use while driving unless you can use the force

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:00 pm

mad4amanda wrote:hi love the becker you have where did you get it from? whats the navigation like (postcode entry?) and can you download the phonebook from your phone? finally how useable is the ipod adapter?
thanks

Google 'Becker Cascade' - between £600-800.
It has postcode entry. Haven't tried to the phonebook from my phone but I know you can send to the phone. It does have voice dialing which will match to your phone entries. iPod adapter is the best part in that ot replicates the iPod interface on the head unit. I keep my iPod hidden away and literally have an iPod OS on my screen.
I actually has full voice commands of every function not just Nav and Phone. You can navigate radio stations, volume up down etc etc.

gareth wrote:sod having a sat-nav built into the head unit, not a lot of use while driving unless you can use the force

That's what voice direction is for dude. How do you use your current stereo when driving then?

Post Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:44 pm

Royalratch wrote:
gareth wrote:sod having a sat-nav built into the head unit, not a lot of use while driving unless you can use the force
That's what voice direction is for dude. How do you use your current stereo when driving then?

volume is on a knob. radio stations are on presets. track skip is two larve obvious buttons. i don't need to look at it much and if i do, not for as long as i would be with a sat nav. and i don't tend to look at the stereo settings while negotiating an unfamiliar junction

Post Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:01 am

http://www.saverstore.com/product/20037 ... Navigation

A tad over 580 and delivered to your door..Tempted!

Post Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:18 pm

I've been looking at getting a Becker Cascade for a while now.
But still can’t justify the expense. I bought a Becker Satnav (from Halfords as it was on sale) unit last year - but it was useless, so I took it back for a refund a week later.

Because of that I'm not so sure how good the sat nav would be on the Cascade.

Anyone tried the latest TomTom/Garmin against the Becker units? Any good? Also what is the difference between the Cascade 7944 and the Cascade Pro 7941 apart from the price?

Would buy the Grand Prix, but I don't like seeing buttons blanked off that don't/can't do anything - that may sound odd, but I think it ruins the aesthetics.