Well I just got my Alpine installed. I'm really happy with it, I love being able to put 10hrs of music on one disk. sounds awsome, I guess if I do any more to it I will rip out the speakers and replace them but for right now it's fine.
I've got a older model Alpine, CDA-7894 linked with my i Pod. 10 hours of music didn't cut it for me...I wanted access to all my cd's....plus I hated burning mp3 cd's.
9811, I know the 9813 is better but I just wanted somthing to play mp3's, either way it is a huge improvment over stock It sounds so much louder
and I got a pretty good deal on ebay