yeah ive been waiting for these to come out for a while, and at the time i was looking for a 15 and the price was around what i wanted to spend. i was going to go a different route...BUT...i hate spending 350 bucks just for a warrentee, since most arent transferrable and 270 bucks was good IMO. and its a 15 come on now ha. Another reason i did it was because i was one of the first to pick up a pair of the MACH 5 Audio 12s, i believe it was on carstereos.org i posted on at that time though, and i had the first review on them as a regular poster, not an admin or tester of the subs. I said well **** it, ill give a first recivew for a normal poster with no real status on the forum.