Pretty good for the price you pay. This is my first time going active, and I'll never go back(won't have a chance to since I have another 8053 in case mine fails me somehow). Considering I paid $100 for the speakers, I couldn't be happier. I made sure to get a tweeter with a low fs so I could crossover low(2k-2.5k) in order to keep a lot of the sound up high instead of coming from my midbass in the stock door locations.How is your front stage I see in your sig?