its amazing how little things in a HU make the unit so much better than the competition

That'* a beauty. I love in depth reviews and pictures and videos of a head unit because it'* really hard to get a decent idea of how it is unless you find it in a store. I was looking at some of the new Pioneers but for the price and features, this one looks like a better option.

I have 6 buttons. They're going to be:

Vol Up Vol Down Source - On the right
>>| |<< FM+ - On the left

No buttons to waste on face plate angle. I can just quietly do that from the remote if i wanna.

JVC has that, too.

eeehhhh just put a shock censor in the pass seat so every time the person move the faceplate moves

Ahhh...I had 8 buttons to work with.

You've got me looking at CD changers again and that will probably change up my buttons.

And you have now made me Decide to sell my pioneer for that unit.

I was never a big fan of pioneer head units. No real reason, either. Just felt they were the "bling" of the bunch. I usually stay away from Sony stuff, too.

Eclipse is a nice brand, my other brother has one of those. I think he paid about $700 for it a long time ago. No internal amp, extremely high quality output, just a CD/AM/FM unit.

Man it looks like I bought mine too early. I got the X889 and I don't get the HP meter! Oh well, it is totally awesome, still...G-force meter is awesome.

does it play CDs too?

Of course.

I just installed mine last night and I love it so far. I'm going to be spending forever trying to adjust everything.