When you get to that point where you think it doesn't get any better, you'd be surprised .................. at what happens when you take your ears on a training course............ listening to some high end home audio in a controlled environment......... and then immediately take that track outside to your car and listen to it.

 

This question is loaded on all sorts of levels...

But in my experience one thing is for sure.. any speaker playing in its linear range will sound good provided it suits the application and is properly installed.....

 

then when is an upgrade not and upgrad? ...when you are not more satisfied with the sound, in other words it was not an upgrade it was a cash dump


when it sounds real and not until then

 

And when is that......... that is when you close your eyes and you pretty much feel that you are "there" with the band or whatever. So good you can almost smell it !!!

 

I can almost smell the drum improvisations by Jim Keltner and Ron Tutt on Sheffield Drum and Tracks. Those are some awesome tracks.

 

When you are broke

Generally, I agree with veeman.

 

In my opinion, you can make pretty much any speaker image and stage well with a good processor and install, but tonality is a little more challenging.

 

In anything other than a comp car, tonality is everything to me.

If it doesn't sound right...it doesn't sound right, and that's a problem.

Stage won't fix a speaker thats sub-par tonaly I don't care what you say, having the best stage in the world doesn't mean your system sounds good. It HAS to stack up dynamically or you might as well not buy it in the first place.

Like was said, bad dynamics are hard to fix....I'll take tonallity over good staging....I can fix a bad stage.

 

I've been tuning all summer and cannot get that "slap in the face" midbass that I had. Last night I had enough, so I decided to put back my "Cerwin Vega SS-6.2" woofers only (left the MBquart tweeters and crossovers) and got back my midbass.

Are the quarts that inefficient? How much power to get that great midbass? would I get enough midbass if I had a bigger amp or is a waste of money?

for now I will leave my Cerwin Vega mids. shame to waste those MBquart signatures.

 

Looks like you found your missing link. If it sounds better now, leave it as is. Power wise, I find the fronts start to sound better at around 150 wrms/side and up. Deadening doors helps a lot, and two layers is perfect. Vegas may be more sensitive mids. I don't remember people praising MB Sig mids, Q's always got excellent feedback.