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<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7716751" data-attributes="member: 629735">I&#039;ll toss some ideas. Hybrid Audio Imagine are considered to be very good speakers at their price of $250. Search archives for lots of good reviews. The only issue is that their crossover is somewhat primitive.&nbsp; Some people think that tweeters are not attenuated enough. This is not an issue for a lot of high end installs, since people will run their speakers with their own active crossovers. I have them in my car right now running in bi-amp mode and I wouldn&#039;t change a thing (besides tuning) in the install. The woofers have very good bass capability (6mm one way xmax) which translates into a very good power handling, but they also play very high in frequency range. A recommended band-pass crossover frequency is between 5 and 6KHz. Hybrid Audio Clarus costs just over $500 and these were considered the next step above Imagine. These come with more robust crossover boxes and tweeters. The woofer is deeper (too deep for some cars) and has 7mm of xmax. HAT Unity is a new HAT product that combines an Imagine woofer (without a phase plug) with Clarus tweeter and crossover. If you intend to use passive crossovers, Unity or Clarus should be a decent choice. I have heard that Focal Polyglass 165 V30 are comparable to Clarus and cost about the same, so those are worth checking out as well.If your budget is around $500 for speakers and amplifier you could afford either Imagine or Unity. I preferred to run my speakers in bi-amp mode, so spending money on Unity for its crossovers would be kind of a waste, so I bought a set of Imagines and I am running them in bi-amp mode, with 2.2uF capacitor inline with tweeters, using a 4-channel MB Quart amplifier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zako, post: 7716751, member: 629735"] I'll toss some ideas. Hybrid Audio Imagine are considered to be very good speakers at their price of $250. Search archives for lots of good reviews. The only issue is that their crossover is somewhat primitive. Some people think that tweeters are not attenuated enough. This is not an issue for a lot of high end installs, since people will run their speakers with their own active crossovers. I have them in my car right now running in bi-amp mode and I wouldn't change a thing (besides tuning) in the install. The woofers have very good bass capability (6mm one way xmax) which translates into a very good power handling, but they also play very high in frequency range. A recommended band-pass crossover frequency is between 5 and 6KHz. Hybrid Audio Clarus costs just over $500 and these were considered the next step above Imagine. These come with more robust crossover boxes and tweeters. The woofer is deeper (too deep for some cars) and has 7mm of xmax. HAT Unity is a new HAT product that combines an Imagine woofer (without a phase plug) with Clarus tweeter and crossover. If you intend to use passive crossovers, Unity or Clarus should be a decent choice. I have heard that Focal Polyglass 165 V30 are comparable to Clarus and cost about the same, so those are worth checking out as well. If your budget is around $500 for speakers and amplifier you could afford either Imagine or Unity. I preferred to run my speakers in bi-amp mode, so spending money on Unity for its crossovers would be kind of a waste, so I bought a set of Imagines and I am running them in bi-amp mode, with 2.2uF capacitor inline with tweeters, using a 4-channel MB Quart amplifier. [/QUOTE]

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