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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roberacer" data-source="post: 8037597" data-attributes="member: 651090"><p>In December I decided I wanted to do something about my car in terms of audio. I couldn't even stand to turn it on really. Long storey short I have Tannoy dual concentric studio monitors coupled with a tannoy sub in my living room. I work in pro audio and that is the level of sonic I am used to. The stock rig in my Toyota was just not up to snuff if you know what I mean. Anyway, I have a friend who is an award winning installer (from years ago) who made some subs for a sound system my band was touring with at the time. They totally kicked ***. He worked hard on them. I wanted something that required little power were flat frequency response wise. Tight (fast transient response and freaking loud. It was a pa (Public Address system but not to be confused with what you hear at Wallmart) not a car stereo after all. The man is brilliant my friends. That is all I can say. He would have designed an awesome rig for my little rust bucket but it would have cost me as much as my monitor rig (which btw has earned me a living) so it was worth every cent. In this case would probably get thrown out with the car when it wroughts away (like they all do). Off to Future Shop I went to see what is out there. I knew they had some decent stuff and are a volume dealer so deals can be had. I listened to everything they had. Alpine, MTX, Pioneer, Kicker, Energy (which I was most interested in) and Infinity. I loved... None of them!!! Like every speaker I have every heard they all had their deficiencies. Interestingly the most tolerable turned out to be the Infinity stuff. Yes, Harman International who btw make some of the best pro audio gear available. They are the biggest and with that have the biggest research and development team in the biz. I know guys who were hired out of pro audio to design for car audio with Harman. Future Shop had both the Infinity "Reference" and the Kappa. Basically the only ones that sounded even close to correct were the Infinity Kappa stuff although it all depended on which model as some of those were a little far off too. It came down to comparing apples to apples. My car would only accept 6"(round) in the back. The Kappa vs the Reference... Kappa was light years better. Worth every cent folks. In short I would look to spend the extra bucks to go to those speakers. Maybe they have better crossovers. I don't know but they were much flatter. BTW I have since read reviews that state that the Kappa way out perform the Polks too (it is just a name anymore, as always mentioned...mass production has changed the face of things a lot). haven't heard the Polks though.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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