I did just buy an Alpine, and I now have a owners Manual. I love my Alpine,
but... it seems from this NG that i should get an Eclipse deck. Sorry if i
confused you all.

As far as SQ is concerned, it'd be fairly hard to pick between Alpine and
Eclipse. As far as I'm concerned, they build the best mainstream SQ decks
avaliable. Denon's DCT-Z1 may be the only deck with better sound than the
CDA-9815 or CD8053, but it offers no time correction or onboard EQ, etc... I
picked an Eclipse deck for my car (it's going in at the end of next week)
because I hated the 9815s user interface, and I ended up loving the Eclipse.
It's little things like that which can make all the difference.