CD player, equalizer, x-over all in one unit. 3 preouts and ZERO distortion. Gorgeous display and is great for running a well built system. Plus if u wanna show off your deck, just let it flip around and watch the excitment on your passengers faces.

The internal amp seems a bit weaker than the said 22/44 watts. But with this serious deck, go with a serious system and buy an amp! I''''m running 3 amps and its great

This is the first head unit I''''ve personally used, but after installing a dozen of them in my friends cars, I see that my weeks of hunting for the perfect one paid off. This is the perfect example of what Kenwood can do. I love all of the amazing features. Did I mention the sweet D-mask flip-face plate?

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I''''ve installed and toyed with: Pioneer, Clarion Pro, Sony Xplode and Blaupunkt (crap) and the Kenwood whooped em all hands down. If your serious about audio, Kenwood made this Excelon for you!

The features are amazing! Acoustically Perfect! The power out of the preouts and speakers are perfect too!

The only problems are the buttons are kinda small, but with a full function remote Kenwood''s got you covered. Display washes out in the sun, but with all of the good stuff, you can deal with that.

Ever since I installed my X811 in my Continental, I''ve been getting complement after compliment on its apearance and sound. This Deck has SOO many cool features: built-in X-overs, 3 preouts, everything you would want in a deck.

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Clarion, Pioneer, Sony, JVC: This Kenwood beats them hands down!

If your gonna spend anywhere in excess of a $1000 on your complete deck than no other deck will do. Features features features!!! This Deck Has It All. Kenwood Hands down makes the best decks out there and the eXcelons are their best. The Kenwood layout system on all their deck Ive found to be very easy to use and it functions really well the decks buttons are small but all these other features sure do make up for it-- awsome sound, built in EQ, rotatable face, and if u burn cds u know that cd text is the bomb! Not many decks have this feature and for someone like me, gold pre-outs,
IF YOUR LOOKING FOR THE BEST DECK FOR YOUR BUCK THIS IS IT!

I couldnt of been happier with my deck, two things though, first the buttons r small but a remote quickly solves that problem, second my deck was stolen (otherwise i wouldve kept it for the rest of my life) so I guess the revolving plate disnt too good at theft protection. It still is the coolest thing to show your friends regardless.

This deck was made for stereo competition in mind yet I dont compete. If you dont want to settle for second best than I recommen this deck. I paid $370 for my deck and it was a great deal but just before the 2000 models were coming out I saw it retail for about $250. I definitley recommend it to everyone who is looking for the Highest in features and quality and I plan to get another one. The new models are about $500 depending on where u shop but it is still very worth it. Remeber Your stereo system is only as good as its weakest link.

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Sony Xplode deck, Alpine, Lots of other Kenwood decks, and I mean Lots. The eXcelons are the best decks Kenwood has ever made their isn't anything I couldve asked for them to do extra to this deck it has it all.

everthing on this enginering marvel works like it was made.

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i love it, when ever someone gets in my car and the face plate turns over they just compliment me on the fine product i have purchased. it complements my Jl's very nicely

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I've had sony, rockford fosgate, and pioneer. nothing compares to its compleet enginuity

Many EQ features for preouts. Excellent display. I love the Radio Data System for when I travel, not many other decks have that. Thanks Kenwood!!

buttons are small, cannot turn off without rotating faceplate, but I think I can deal with these small things when the sound is incredible!

I find this deck to be one of the best sounding and best looking decks out. Kenwood's Excelon line has done nothing but impress me. I get a lot of compliments on this deck, mostly for the revolving faceplate :). I would never go without a Kenwood Excelon deck for a minute!

This headunit looks awesome, especially at night. I get tons of compliments on it, and everyone thinks it looks really high tech and impressive. I love the features this unit has, such as the high-pass cross over, 3 preouts, and such. As far as sound quality, I have yet to hear a better sounding unit. I like the disc naming features as well.

If you use the internal amp, you will notice that the amp doesn't seem as strong as other head units might, but this is simply due to the fact that the head unit is true power. It doesn't distort nearly as bad as other units, which just get loud really fast and then distort for the last half of the volume settings (like my old Alpine).

I paid about 400 dollars for this head unit new, and I would have to say it was definitely worth it. It's been the best head unit I've ever listened to or used, and I'm still very happy with it. I recommend this to anyone.

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Alpine head unit (it was top of the line at the time, about 3 or 4 years ago). The kenwood is MUCH better, no contest.

I Love this Unit...3 Pre-Amps,Built in High/low crossover...Great INTERFACE and GREAT Sounds!!!

Buttons are too small...but Ill bear with it...

SOUNDS GREAT!!! Excelon all the way..!!!

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I used to have the Alpine CVA-1000 and to me..its all looks...I love the Sounds on the Kenwood Excelon X811

Excellent sound quality, tons of
features.
Looks great at night. No faceplate to carry.

Very poor ergonomics -
All buttons too small, poorly arranged.
Too many functions buried in menus.
Labelling on face, not on buttons is
far too small to read.
Ejecting/loading a cd takes a long time.
Display washes out completely in sunlight.

This is my second Kenwood CD receiver. I have very mixed feelings about it. Sonically I find it flawless, the best sounding deck I've heard. It's feature set is also hard to fault, with just about everything you could want. I like the built in crossovers on the 3 sets of preouts (though extraneous as I have an external EQ/crossover), the station/disc naming, and 10 different brightness levels on the display. However, I find it very poor ergonomically. I find all the buttons too small (particularly eject), extremely poorly labeled (day or night), and could be better arranged. Not that Kenwood or this deck in particular is the only one with this problem by any means... While it has several more features than my previous KDC9000, I find I miss some major ones, such as a volume calibrated in dB, the positive and negative display in green and amber, ability to display total playing time for a disc, and separate buttons for ff/rw and track advance. I also don't like that you cannot turn the unit off without closing the faceplate. I would have rather had an off setting so that I could still see the clock but not have the deck be 'on'. Overall, it's a great sounding deck and can run your whole system with ease, but I feel they tried to pack too many features into too few buttons and went for flashy looks instead of ease of use. I can't comment on the built in amp - I only use the preout.

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I really like this unit. It has alot of nice features like the cross over's, non-fading output level, etc. It looks really cool, I get a ton of compliments on it. I really like the hiding faceplace, and the cool graphics. I would recommend this unit to anyone. Bad: the built in amp says 44x4 max but I feel it isn't that strong.