Ok I'll start it off....this is purely opinionated but maybe we'll get a good consensus of what companies have stuck around to still offer top notch stuff.
For me:
#1) ALPINE! I use to be a huge fan of Alpine in the late 80's and 90's. Shoot my graphics teacher in high school actually nicknamed me "Alpine" just because I would print Tshirts, banners, posters, just about anything....All Alpine! Seemed like nobody at the time could touch this company! They seemed in a league all on their own with only a few other companies in the head unit bus. Mainly Eclipse and Naka(sumthing) I forget the name.
Alpine still seems they they are OK, but it would appear that quality control in production has taken a big hit as well as keeping up with features. I have read many posts about how their amp's produce hiss and pops and how their motorized head units break in under a year. Really pains me to hear it and have had to watch it happen over the last decade. I still have a V12, T-500 that is pushing 16 years old now and still is going strong. I have had it in 5 cars and it has lasted longer then all of them! Now that says something about reliability! I also had an old Alpine Cassette/AiNet/CD changer head unit that besides a couple of the buttons needing repairing still was working great when I sold is last year.
For me:
#1) ALPINE! I use to be a huge fan of Alpine in the late 80's and 90's. Shoot my graphics teacher in high school actually nicknamed me "Alpine" just because I would print Tshirts, banners, posters, just about anything....All Alpine! Seemed like nobody at the time could touch this company! They seemed in a league all on their own with only a few other companies in the head unit bus. Mainly Eclipse and Naka(sumthing) I forget the name.
Alpine still seems they they are OK, but it would appear that quality control in production has taken a big hit as well as keeping up with features. I have read many posts about how their amp's produce hiss and pops and how their motorized head units break in under a year. Really pains me to hear it and have had to watch it happen over the last decade. I still have a V12, T-500 that is pushing 16 years old now and still is going strong. I have had it in 5 cars and it has lasted longer then all of them! Now that says something about reliability! I also had an old Alpine Cassette/AiNet/CD changer head unit that besides a couple of the buttons needing repairing still was working great when I sold is last year.