i first wanted this deck casue it was blue and matched my interior. but then i looked at all the features and it kinda shocked. it had many that the high priced decks had. so i bought it when i got i found that it was even better then i expected. the eq and subwoofer outputs are awesome. the only thing i dont like about the deck are the pre-amp outputs arent quite as high as some of the others but you can help that with a crossover or such. i would defintely say buy one. the remote comes with it can do almost anything that the rotary knob can, but it cant change your backgrounds you have to do that with the knob. by the way the backgrounds are awesome. i always get comments on that.