I personally have a nee helix 5 and it is small, but my boat is very small. The value was there.
The Garmin echomap Cv series is affordable. I recently ordered two from matt at supreme marine , both were sv (no transducer)
If you want to upgrade in the future, than you will want to consider a full blown mfd. (multifunction display) these have integrated network hubs and nmea 2000. They will support peripherals such as radar, cameras, heading sensors, wifi control, very fast screen response (ipad fast) .. they start at $1000
The garmin echomap, the raymarine dragonfly, the garmin striker, lowrance elite and helix are similar non mfd but they do all have quality bottom capabilities 350-900
The next level are MFD's and they would be the humminbird solix, the raymarine axiom and the garmin xsv series. Basically they are 1000 and up
matt resca at supreme marine is a garmin dealer
Hope this helps -nick
Simrad, lowrance and bng are under the navico umbrella
Garmin owns navionics cartography. And raymarine is local in nashua and part of Flir
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