I recently recieved and have been using the RMAGIC single din unit. It's a great looking piece but unfortunately took a good 2+ months to get here, over $400US + shipping and actually required some very mild sanding to make it fit properly. Nonetheless now it is a GREAT UNIT, looks OEM, and I have now started using my Kenwood DVD player with built MP3, installing NAVI and all the other goodies. Oh sound quality is light years ahead too as well.


I've been speaking to a fabrication friend of mine and we have decided we are going to move forth with making a mold of the unit. We'll be making the pieces in standard fibreglass (which can be painted to the matte textured black as my original unit was..we will likely do this ourselves) and be making pieces in various colours of carbon fibre. We will be doing the mold this upcoming week. I'll let everyone know how it goes. No more 2 month waits, no more 400-500 dollar pieces and perfect fitment. Not bad.

Here's a pic of another person ont he board who has it.

https://www.rx8club.com/australia-new-zealand-forum-37/installed-my-r-magic-din-39621/

 

looks like a pretty clean install! but no offense....what the heck is the point of installing a new head unit, if the old one remains in place?? Im not much of a audio guy, so i guess i just dont appreciate stuff like that.

 

Installing a head unit, besides increased sound quality and pre-out voltage, would allow people to use DVD Audio, Video, VCD, MP3 (including the music keg by Kenwood which allows you create store 10-20 gigs of MP3's in your car with hundreds of playlists), Carputers and navigation.

Also, for those who have already hooked up full aftermarket setups they can fully optimize their systems with decks that have EQ features, a SIGNIFICANTLY stronger and cleaner signal as well.

 

but you still have 2 decks on the dashboard! hehehe. I guess i'd rather have an RX-8 for the rush of performance, then for modifying, and showing off, thats all.