I was a loyal Alpine follower, but after being disappointed on my last 2 decks( which were both insurance replacements) I went for anything but Alpine and ended up with the Sony I mentioned. But I've never been able to achieve the SQ I had with the last Alpine HU/crossover combo that I was happy with, and am willing to give them another try. This time I will take my time and put the 7887 through its paces before I decide.

I've got Focal 130V2s and a PPI DCX 600.4, so I should be able to get pretty decent sound. I'd look into Eclipse more, but they don't have much of a presence where I live, and I'm not going to buy it without trying it out.

It's odd, but I've searched high and low and am pretty sure the old Alpine I had was only a 1 bit dac, and yet that unit truly had excellent sound. I don't know why at least some of their stuff is so pedestrian these days.