Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome Radio

This is my second ilx-207 (for a second car, not replacement). I love the features on this radio and the price point!

Just the best

If you want the best sound and head units on the market today, I suggest you get a alpine. In my 25 years I have used them all and alpine is by far the best. They have the options, the adjustability, the sound quality, and there tech is always ahead of everybody. Also this particular unit is the cheapest apple car play unit going from alpine. It has it all once you plug your phone in.

Perfect

I love this headunit, I couldn’t be happier. Way too many awesome functions to list. This thing is perfect for any setup you’re running. Alpine is flyin high and soaring with the eagles. Keep up the great work!

By Mike on December 21, 2017 Verified purchase

The iLX-208: A great modern day multimedia head unit

TLDR: I’ve been involved in car audio for 30+ years and have heard quite a few of the best head units over the time. I can confidently say that the Alpine iLX-208’s sound quality is in the top tier.

The high-level review: Once Double DIN units with navigation became popular, I changed up from an Alpine CDA-9887 to a few Alpine DD navi units, but was not excited about how slow they were. I switched to Pioneer, which was more polished at that time, and have had three of their top of the line NEX units. What the Pioneer made up for usability, it lost in sound. The Pioneer DD sound is just too sterile and anemic. I bought the Pioneer DEX-P99RS as my music source and ran the first NEX I purchased through it for general purpose use. The DEX-P99RS sound is sublime. After a while though, the DEX-P99RS was just a pain for multimedia. Too hard to control efficiently. I went back to the next NEXs and went outboard to full active at that point. It made up a lot for the anemic Pioneer DD, but I just wasn’t satisfied. Cut to a few weeks ago, and I went back to Alpine with the iLX-208. What a relief!!! The Alpine blows the NEX units out of the water with regards to sound/audio quality. The bonus was that Alpine upped their game with the software and hardware to run it, which had surpassed the NEX units: The Alpine iLX-208 is a solid buy. Highly recommended.

As far as function goes, I leave it to the other reviewers, but suffice it to say, it’s easy to use.

Now, if Pioneer could just bring that DEX-P99RS liquid sound to a DD multimedia receiver, I would pay a lot of money for such a device. I think it’s time to up the ante promoting sound quality electrics, and Kenwood seems to have already jumped into that game. Come on Alpine and Pioneer! Make me poor!