Pioneer headunits, and some kenwood headunits use a power-filtering circuit on the harness.
It's essentially a capacitor, a diode or resistor, and a choke.
Here's some reading material:
Alternator Whine in Car Audio
http://www.designers-guide.org/Design/bypassing.pdf
Low-pass filters : FILTERS
Building a simple Alternator whine / ignition filter
www.hstek.co.kr/newhstek/noiseken/pdf/NIT.pdf
Nice info, thank you. Have some rep.