Dealers have just been circulated a bulletin from Fujitsu Ten regarding the Eclipse line of car audio. They will be shutting down this year to focus on their OEM products for manufactures like Toyota.

If you're a fan of the Eclipse line or just want to have a collectible, you may wish to get yours now. This year all Eclipse sales and production will cease.

 

Say it aint so! Been a fan of eclipse deck for a long time.

 

Sign of the times I guess. I used to remember when Sony (ES) (XES) made some outstanding gear. But they killed them for the "xplod" series. Just crap when compared to some of the old legends.

Eclipse made some very decent stuff at one time. Wonder how well they fared the last few years...

 

Right, I haven't really followed audio the last 3-5 years but Eclipse had some nice stuff back in my day. On the Sony thing, I've still got a Sony C90 sitting in a drawer, the display doesn't work anymore but that was a great unit.

 

Bad inverter unit? Those C90 models were THE ones to beat in terms of SQ. And they can be modded quite easily. Even the famed 2nd gen Alpine F#1 Status can't touch the C90 when it came to all out SQ. And I'm very serious about that one. Alpine had tunability, but didn't use the right op amps.

 

sad news for the car audio industry. my brother has the cd7000 in his car. great sq deck.

 

Very sad.. My old AVN was awesome..

 

I currently have the AVN 1600 and love it! I was contemplating buying the newer model, but this doesn't look promising?

 

Anyone know if you will still be able to get Eclipse units repaired by the manufacturer? I'm looking for a double din HU and would strongly consider an Eclipse but am concerned that I wouldn't be able to get service if I needed it somewhere down the line.

 

just stumbled on this. Kinda bummed out cause i was waiting for an update to cd7200. Planned to get that instead of my p800prs....

 

i agree, sony xplod killed it for sony, i had one those radios in my '89 325i it looked great with the red display, had all the features, and a powerful amp, but that thing could not play a cd without skipping, sometimes just sittin at a light a brand new cd would be skipping.

 

Xplod series usually "exploded" and went bad very quickly.

Truth in advertising I guess.

 

sucks to see eclipse go =\

 

Eclipse isn't shutting down altogether. They are ceasing to produce anything but head units.
I got this information from my local Eclipse rep.

 

Gotta love the "If struck by lightning" power ratings on the amps too. They were far from the only ones doing that though.

That'd ease my mind a little bit if they were still making head units. I'm almost down to Kenwood or Eclipse since there seems to be alot more complaints about bugs in the Pioneer units and Alpine doesn't have anything in my price range. It seems I could get a little more features for the price from Eclipse.