hey blacktruck10...instead of my wasting space copying and pasting YOUR absurd post as you do mine, I'll just say that YOU ARE AWESOME, NO DOUBT, and can I please attend your COOL SCHOOL, I'll pay anything you say so maybe one day I can be AS COOL AS YOU!... again if you have nothing of substance to say please just SHUTUP... we all know, sorry, ALL AMERICA, knows how AWESOME you are, so why don't you just go ... does that clear that up? and please no more posts, if you have anything to say email me and we'll go from there...
headless.... "golf clap", please, how infantile, maybe that snide comment says something about your character and personality, but please forgive me, I was just trying to enjoy some car audio talk and not initiate the wrath of some desperate sniper hiding in the car audio internet woods just waiting for someone to ambush with their superior experience and knowledge...
but since you've continued the discussion I will add information that I did not initially deem necessary as I did not think that all of the facts would have to be revealed to justify and/or support my claims of enjoying my speakers and my system, and I would like those people who have read this post with positive interest to have the answers to your comments.... thank you to those folks...
so here is how your numbers work out... LRx 2.9's close, Nak deck, off a few hundred, and oh yeah I did buy an extra year's warranty, you probably will think I'm even more of a chump for that too (yeah you're right everyone selling sees me coming..), the alpine processor and controller close, the ML2500 close (why couldn't you find a price on this one given your knowledge and abilities?..), the battery off by around $100. By the way where were your numbers on the MLK165's which is what this post was really about?! Or does that not even matter to you now? Did I forget to mention that these are really an excellent sounding speaker system? I sure wish PSB would manufacture car speakers, that is what I have for home speakers, care to take another shot, just giving you the opening! Want to know how much I paid for them too?
So, for whatever its worth, I should say before you denigrate a product line like Pear cable, please learn something about the line, I said I had Bosc interconnects and speaker cable, not the RCA silver Comice, so obviously you have an anti-Pear bias, so please take that out elsewhere as I have never felt any high-end cable line was worth the price asked, but I do believe that cables are components in a system and not accesories, and that one should have high-quality cables with high-quality equipment to maximize the systems potential. I don't really think the $20 burger in an expensive downtown restaurant is really worth the money, but I still realize how good it is when I eat it. And yes, my installer never would say it directly, but he did intimate that the cables were of high quality but probably not worth the money, but you know, I still don't regret paying what I did for them, and he gladly and professionaly terminated them and installed them.
I also had to pay for several labor hours (yes very expensive) for correction of a previous botched install, and rewiring of the entire car, due to getting ripped off and mistreated by a previous installer who is now out of business. You can estimate the cost, what do you charge per hour for your labor cost?
And there was also the sale and install of the Clifford alarm system. And there was also the rental car charge of a few hundred dollars while this all transpired. So now when you add these up does this come close to the figure I mentioned I invested? Sorry if my figure included these additional items that I did not specify, but I did not think I would be so financially analyzed to justify the system's cost, my mistake. Again, I thought we were just enjoying our car audio here and relating our experiences. Seems I was wrong, at least where you were involved.
I never mentioned a figure to be impressive, only to show the seriousness of my endeavor, and certainly we all know that most high-end car audio systems NOT INSTALLED BY THE OWNER like the AWESOME blacktruck, cost a pretty penny for a real professional installer to install, and worth every penny I have to unfortunately say as the original reason for my post was not only to state that my experiences with this speaker system were antithetical to the person "not impressed", and that quality install was of paramount importance, and I only mentioned the system components and their cost as most of the posts I've read on these sites always listed their systems' specifics.. Most high-end systems I've heard, or read about cost significantly more than mine, so I know that blacktrucks $2200 is all that is needed, so the rest of us are really just people taken and ripped off, right blacktruck?
Anyway, again, for all that may still care, I feel the Hertz MLK 165's, when properly installed, and driven with the right amplifier, are an outstanding sounding component speaker system, excellent, clean felt mid-bass, with even low frequencies accurately reproduced, tweeters with excellent definition on the high end, great imaging, accuracy, and definitely a system overall less bright and harsh and more detailed than so many others I have heard. Again, just my opinion, which is the only reason I originially responded, even though others here have intimated my motives were otherwise. Again, only my opinion, and we all know about opinions...
Hope everyone enjoys there car tunes as I do!