My alpine decided to stop working..
 

Ok so I was driving a long the other day listening to music and then my music just stopped. The head unit seemingly still playing the music with no sound. I checked all of the amp fuses throughly, all of them were fine. Checked the remote wire that was fine. The amps power up without any sound. I checked the rca's as well and the amps will play directly from my ipod if I hook my ipod to them. The head unit powers on and does everything it should do other than put out sound. Is this a common problem with headunits that the pre outs stop working? I'm starting to lean towards keeping my stock radio in and upgrading the stock one. I like the looks of the stock unit in my dash... I just want to know why a head unit would just stop working? I didn't hit a bump and the music wasn't incredibly loud either.

sometimes they just stop working. My old kenwood did that.

well I like the look of my stock radio in there again, I think I'm going to go this route instead of getting a new head unit. have any of you guys had experience with either of these?

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_581PA11...ce.html?tp=120

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_236REQ5...Q5.html?tp=428

I've heard of them but never seen them used before... At the price you would pay for those two items you could get a pretty sick deck... It's just is the look of the stock stereo worth that much to you?

Everyone's different but in my opinion I'd just get a new deck.

well if I were to get a new deck I'd want a double din and that is way out of my price range now. plus Those things on ebay are much cheaper. The ipod control is $110 and the mtx is 89. $200 and under units tend to suck... I'm picky about my units I hate front inputs usb, aux, ect. almost all the units under $200 have front inputs, other than alpine which my unit is and I'm not sure if I want to get another one of those now.

Actually if I had to pick the ideal radio I'd go for either this

http://www.crutchfield.com/s_105KDAV...7.html?tp=5684

or

http://www.crutchfield.com/s_700INAW...e.html?tp=5684

I just ordered my head unit for like 160 and it has all the bells and whistles that I need.

JVC Arsenal KD-AHD69...

but it has the front inputs that you dont like... hmmm lol. I mean I say go for the stock look if you really want and let us know how it goes.

I'm going to give it a try see how it works. I'm interested to see how the ipod control works. I didn't like the ipod control that much on my alpine

yeah that looks interesting.

before you go and spend money on everything have you checked your RCAs? before i reran everything this summer i had a set get crimped and stop working completely because they got severed.

what i'm saying i guess is get another set of RCAs, plug them into the headunit, then run those to the amp and see what happens.

I did that with my ipod. and all of the speakers + sub worked when I switched from each channel. and plus I doubt all of my rca's would get split at once since my sub rca's run on the opposite side of my truck than the 4 channel