[Justintoxicated]

Ill be putting 2g's into mine (hell a navigation system that some put in is over 2 g's)and will be playing mp3's and I ll gaurantee it will sound Noticably better than a system using LOC's from an already weak signal from the stock HU. You will lose more quality this way than compressing a CD digitaly. But it should sound better than stock at higher volumes)

Hell I took it to a sterio sho and askthem how much to matt eh whole truck and they recomended I do it myself because it would cost $800+ jsut for sound deadener install.

I also agree real CD's sound better, but I ususaly use variable bit rate compression on my discs and it would take a 2000 system to really begin to notice the difference in some cases.

Let us know how much better than stock it ends up though, I thought about doing this route myself but after spending a fortune on wires and Noise & Vibration dampening I decided that it would be like putting a 4 cylinder motor into a truck the size of a titan.

Last time I called alto-mobile about hte UI/4 they told me there was a mistake with the origional pricing and it was going to be more expensive the next time. I gave up on waiting for it though. I think it is going to be more than $100 from now on, but I do not know how much.

Good point about the DAC's squid, another reason I did not buy a new Alpine (last years was WAY better). I'm pretty sure the new alpin uses 1 bit dacs when you can get a clarion (which are real good this year instead of crap like in the past) or eclipse that uses 24 bit dacs and have high pre-out voltages 4-8V's out. of course bit's arenteverything....