What i dont like about that deck is no cd's! That would drive me crazy! But the ipod interface it has is shnazzy. And only because we have people saying pioneer is best quality. And alpine is best quality.... ill throw in my 2 cents aswell. If we want to get technical here, the best hands down deck is made by clarion, based on sound quality. Pioneer sucks *****, but pioneers "premier" line (not sold at best buy or futureshop of canadian tire) is very very good.

Fyi the deck becomes less important once you get to a fairly top end deck, and then run amplifiers for speakers and sub.

 

I bought my deck solely for the purpose of playing cds, but after having a USB stick plugged in there most of the time for my music i had literally not used my cd player for about a year. On top of that after i got an iphone thats all i use for music. Now i am regretting not getting the ipod interface deck. I bough mine 3 weeks before i switched to iphone . Damn blackberry screwed me again :P

 

Can you get the Alpine unit with a GPS ?