I looked at that one too but a couple things led me toward the alpine. One is the organic screen on the pioneers, too bright for my tastes. I had the 6300 and people thought I had neon in my car it was so bright. There was no way to turn it off either. Another thing was the mp3 capabilities of the Alpine. I read some reviews and a lot of people complained about the functionality of the pioneers mp3 player. They were saying it took a long time to switch tracks(like 3 or 4 seconds as appose to 1 second for the alpine.) Little things like that bug me, but im picky lol