I had an Eclipse face until, voice commands unit, and GPS installed. I'll be posting pictures and a review soon. Has anyone else had these unit(s) installed?

 

i heard about them but havent seen any prices, how much do they usually cost with all the gps and voice activated stuff

 

Put it this way: Head unit, GPS, and voice command unit were all about $900!

 

thats not bad, what head unit did you get? how big is the monitor?

 

i've played with them extensively... for the most part, really good stuff - the commander thing is kinda streaky sometimes... when it was going well, it worked perfectly... when not so well, i said 'f--king stupid radio' and it tuned in a light top 40 station... couldn't explain that one. saying 'commander do this and commander do that' all the time got kinda tired as well... and the thought of a passenger changing stations and cd's to be funny wasn't too appealing. other than that, great stuff, great sounding... just the commander didn't seem too important.

 

Well... I had the first commander unit replaced due to a bad weld in the microphone jack (very very common ). Now, I am rarely getting a GPS signal. The GPS NEVER works if you mount the antenna on the dash so I have to stick it in between the top and the support above the driver side visor.

 

Are the directions from the GPS precise?

 

When it works, it is VERY precise! Down to a few feet.

 

When you say " when it works" is there just the problem w/ your Commander MIC or is it tempermental and only works when it wants to? I'm currious, because that seems strange for a unit to malfunction sometimes. ( Eclispe is very High end Audio)--do you think the head unit is messed up?

 

Well... When I initially had the unit installed, the microphone didn't work. The shop told me that I would have to activate the unit with the voice recognition company before it would work, so i did. It still didn't work. I brought it back and it turned out that the mic jack had broken apart from the circuit board (it is held there basically by a thread and very delicate). The ordered a new unit and it accepted my commands after that. I had to configure the GPS system and a couple days later that too worked. Now I will ask it, "Navigatior, where am I" and it will respond with "GPS is not available". The GPS antenna I know did not work in my windshield so I relocated it above the driver side visor wedged into the soft top. When I did this, I had no problem getting a signal. Now, all of a sudden, a can never get a signal. I try it 4 or 5 times a day and it might work once every few days. I got into a fight with the shop about replacing the first unit and I don't even want to bring it back there. I was going to call Eclipse and bitch and whine.

I installed the 5441 head unit and it is awesome. I can equalize it with +5 treble -3 mid and +1 bass and it sounds 200% better that the stock radio. It actually has great sound to it with stock speakers. I'm just not happy with the commander/gps unit. I was going to install an alpine cva-1005 screen, but it won't flip out. Then I saw someones custom install on this board and kicked myself.