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Originally Posted by BigRed7181

I have had all of mine replaced with Hertz mille pro, alpine amps, and custom sub box with an Alpine sub. The H8 is not a good choice as it can only accept 4 inputs. The bit one however can accept 8 so you can keep your chimes, fade control, cross traffic alert etc. The rear speaker input is required to keep some of these alerts. The only speaker I did not change is the center channel. Mine is a vert so I do not have the other two speakers in the rear deck lid either. I am currently using an Alpine PDX-V9 5 channel amp for the whole system and it sounds great but I am going to change it out to a PDX-M12 and a PDX-F6. That being said you could use a stacked configuration with a PDX-V9 and PDX-F6/F4 and you would have 9 channels available on for the sub(500W) and 8 more for everything else. BTW I originally installed the H8 and discovered I had no more cross traffic alert or back up warnings of any kind.

You don't need 8 inputs, with the Nav-TV piece, you have a digital output from the nav TV to digital input on the H8. My system was installed correctly and I still have all cross alerts, door chimes, and back up warnings.

Again, I have both processors installed into two different vehicles. They both work flawlessly in terms of function, but the H8 has LESS BUGS than the known and well documented problems with the bitone. Once you dial the system in, you shouldn't be touching any of the vehicles settings (fade, EQ, etc) as that completely destroys the staging anyway.