Eclipse CD7200 mkII Source Unit Review

The Eclipse CD7200 mkII Source Unit is designed around one thing ? giving you the best possible audio fidelity for your money?s worth. As a ?dead head?, the Eclipse CD7200 mkII Source Unit does not have any kind of internal power source but runs off of the power in your car. The Eclipse CD7200 mkII Source Unit has a copper plated chassis which helps to protect the unit from electrical noise in the vehicle, as well as gold plated connectors and an eight volt preamp output.

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[thegame]

The area around the dial looks nice..although the rest of it gives me an old school feel to it.I like the bluetooth compatibility- makes interfacing with mobiles etc. a breeze...Thanks for sharing the article..

[dmahay]

Originally Posted by thegame

The area around the dial looks nice..although the rest of it gives me an old school feel to it.I like the bluetooth compatibility- makes interfacing with mobiles etc. a breeze...Thanks for sharing the article..

the product looks sleek to me...but no that rugged, maybe because the emphasis is on the looks.
the bluetooth compatibility is a nice feature.thx for the article.

[just1moreamp]

Ok lets start out my saying I had a few good to really good decks. The last one before the 7200 MK II was the Alpine 9887. I sold the Alpine hoping for something better. The Eclipse was pictured in many websites with a very grainy, cheap newspaper looking screen and that really scarred me off. If I am gonna pay hundreds for a deck its gonna show me what i need to see in a very approriate manner. So when I got it and turned it on the the first time all the way to the very last time I kept thinking that this unit sucks so back just cause of the screen that I just wanna puke! Ok there may be some outthere that just want to hear good music and dont care what the screen looks like. I think you people are stupid and you have no idea how bad the sceen is on this unit. In all my days I have never seen such a poor way of showing motion or moving pictures on the display of a radio. It is even worse than the crappy Sony Explod units. By comparison the Cd5100 has 10 times better resolution then the 7200 mkII. Ok Lets go on. The unit comes with a wireharness that boggles my mind. It has all the speaker wiring and even has the labels of what the speakers wiring goes to on the copper plated case! What a dumb ass thing to do! The company took out the fan that cools off the inside of the unit but left the useless sticker and speaker wires on the wiring harness! DUH! The next big and dumb thing about this unit is the time ittakes for this units volume to go up or down with the remote control it comes with. I think there are about 70 or so small bars that you can get upto on the volume. If you use the remote you are gonna be there for about 3 minutes waiting for it to get to full throttle. It makes one segment every 1.5 or 2 seconds. You say no big deal? HA try turning the volume down when noticing a cop in the are using the remote! Ticket time! the unit sucks! Its the slowest volume control i ever saw on anything remote controllable. Next problem is the actual motion picture background itself. You can change it to 3 thinks. 2 of which suck really bad enough to where you cant hardly see anything else but the stupid looking moving pictures. If you want you can put it ona so called spectrum analyser. This is suppose to show a live frequency sweep of the music playing. Its like a moving EQ. Basically its so slow and ugly you just wanna go back to the useless moving background cause if someone sees the ugly spectrum they will laugh!. The crossovers are way off. Compared to the setting on the 9887 you get the same cutoff slopes but heres the problem. The MK II at 160hz 24db cutoff is like using the 12db 120hz on the Alpine! So that measn the Eclipse sucks cause the frequencies you pick at teh slope you want isnt what you are really getting. The unit itself is made much cheaper in build quality then the CD5100. But lets get to the sound Quality cause you all think this is gonna be a great unit. Well first off No. It sucks in SQ. it sounds very bright. At times it screams through my tweeters. At half point gain Id say about 3 to 4 volts going to my amps that handle 8volts input you can really hear the unit throughing out distortion. The bass sounds like garbade. The highs are killing my passengers. No it is in no way an SQ deck and you all including me have been conned! I sold this deck just 2 weeks after I bought it. I lost over $100 resaling it and I feel that Eclpise is at par with Sony Explod and other cheapo type companies. The 24bit processor in it wortless. The face of teh unit has about a billion logos on it. I dont want 3rd party logos on my deck. The copper shielding did seem to help wit the FM noise. It does catch a good station. The CD player does show ID3 tags very fast and does scan through cd's fast. The unit is very easy to adjust and setup and install. But compared to the 9887 or even a lesser unit it is so inferior. Im wondering why the hell Eclipse made this junk cause when you hear you you will get just as pissed off as I did. Oh and forget about usuing the manual. Its useless. Good thing its kinda easy to setup. I think Ill try Nakamichi next. Alpine still doesnt do it for me. They make you buy extra gadgets to get the main unit doing what you want. If I am gonna have to do that Ill just go all out and get a dual 24bit deck that actually sounds good.