saelee39

hello, i have a 2000 gs300. when i bought it, the audio system came with a stock headunit and a cd changer. However, if my car do have a premium audio system, wouldnt it say nak or bose somewhere on the front of the headunit?....the headunit does not have any name brand on the front, im assuming this is just the normal one?. i do know that the 10'sub in the back is a pioneer, does that mean that the rest of the speaker components are pioneer?. thanks.

rgarjr

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Its either Pioneer or Nak.

Kharizma

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hey, not to hi-jack your thread, but i have a 2000 GS400 and I don't know what kind of system my car came with either.. I have a stock navigation head unit and it doesn't any name brand anywhere?

rgarjr

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If it says Premium Sound, then its a Pioneer.

aliti19

If you look on the headunit of any 98-00 GS and it doesn't say Nakamichi anywhere, you have the stock Pioneer unit & speakers.

Kharizma

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ah, pioneer it is... is the nak. system a LOT better than the pioneer? or what's the difference..?

aliti19

I haven't heard the Nak system, but i'm sure it's great. My dad ('92 LS) & my sis ('99 ES), have the stock Pioneer unit, and my ML blows it completely out of the water. The stock Pioneer isn't quite loud enough for me.

rominl

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the nak is a bit better than the pioneer, but it's nothing like the difference between the mark levenson (01+) and pioneer. ml sounds so much better. and yes if you don't see nak anywhere, you have pioneer

also, i THINK (please correct me) for 98-00, if you have nav, you don't have nak, and vise versa. someone please confirm?

saelee39

my door speakers are 4inch rounds, however i heard bose only make 4' rounds for these type of cars, does that mean it is still a pioneer?

AJ

Yes , Lexus never had Bose speakers EVER !

e-man

Henry is right. From 98-00, you couldn't get navigation and Nakamichi. You could have either one or the other, or neither, but not both. If you have navigation, you have the stock Pioneer system. If you don't have navigation, look on the face of your stereo and it will say Nakamichi if you have it. If not, you have the stock Pioneer system.

SoCalSC4

Thanks goodness... BOSE stuff is garbage! (I call it "Blows").

The Nakamichi system sounds pretty darned good for stock. It could use a more controlled subwoofer (as opposed the the cheap 'free air' sub it utilizes), but otherwise the system has a smooth sound at low to moderate sound levels. At higher volumes it sounds less stable; the bass drops off relative to the mids & highs.

rominl

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thank god they have ml TOGETHER with nav now then

aliti19

Oh yea! I turned down a GS before I bought mine b/c it had the navi w/o the ML.

e-man

Hey G. FYI, from 98-00, if a GS had navigation, it could not have Nakamichi, but rather had the stock Pioneer system. ML came out in 01. In 01 and 02, you could get ML without navigation, but not the other way around. If an 01+ has navigation, it automatically has ML as well. So, the car you turned down must have been an 98-00 (although, like I said, it wouldn't have had ML anyway because that wasn't offered until 01+).

e