what do you think of this set up?

oh-by the way, you must have told ol' calvin you had just over 400 bucks in your pocket and he got every cent he could.  the kdc-mp625 is almost identical on bestbuy's website @$279.99.

AND...the highly sought after excelon equivalent of this model woudl be the kdc-x679 and I sell this in my store all day long at $349.99 w/ installation labor.

plus, on the excelon you get...3 sets 5 volt/80 ohm preouts, 24 bit burrbrown processing, parametric equalization, more crossover frequencies, and a 2 year warranty.

lets see that on your nak, blau, eclipse, alpine, pioneer, clarion, fosgate, jvc, pana, or sony @ the price point.  you won't!

raven-   as a mobile electronics store manager i couldnt agree more with all of your points on the added customer service @ a bricks-and-mortar establishment,  but regardless of this added benefit to the customer, tim was overcharged for this unit.

uthinkuknow-  or i mean "ithinkiknow", how about the sony mobile es cdx-c90, or without a doubt the alpine f#1 status piece would blow the nak out the water as far as sound q specs.  these are both very pricy units as im sure the nak 700ii is.  the excelons start with 24 bit processing @ a $259 full msrp on the kdc-x579.  and on top of all this i dont feel like im operating and looking at a pos.  i'll be honest, that nak looks like the back-of-my-balls.  i will admit that i havent seen the backside in quite sometime, but i gaurantee ya, it aint pretty

I think going by looks is a very bad idea because that is strictly a personal preference. As I said I think the Nak units look far better than the kenwood decks. Like I said Canadian retail lists the deck at 80 dollars higher than what he paid so I feel he didnt get screwed. I can also say that, while i wont say exactly what it is, I do know that that stores cost on that deck is just over 300 dollars canadian so if they made 25% than thats a fair deal.

Kenwood = middle of the line = you can do better for the money, unless all you want is dancing animations and a 40000 EQ bands and uneeded adjustments.

What a foolish statement to make.  Thats comparable to someone running around screaming the W7 is the worlds greatest subwoofer.  I've got literature from professional reviewers stating things like "the best subwoofer I have ever heard." But so what I've got literature on the 9500 that says "... the MTX 9500 does it all."  Does it all?  As in does everything perfectly?  Beats the w7?  Or is the w7 'the best subwoofer you will ever hear?'  Hu?  Oh, mayyyyybe its subjective!  Mayyyybe what looks good on paper does not always translate into *sweet*, *perfect* sound?

And... FFS lets stop arguing about if Nak makes a better head unit then Kenwood, maybe I missed it but I dont think the guy who started the post asked if Nak was better then Kenwood.

Look, xTimx, given that you paid that in Canadian, I dont think you could have gotten much of a better deal.  You could have saved a few bucks, sounddomain or crutchfeild, or saved more on ebay or some other questionable place.  I think the people who are sl*gging off your kenwood are ridiculous, i stand by my statement that most people could not tell the difference between the two in a blind listening test.  Its not a bad headunit, and are YOU happy with it?

As far as the rest:  I dont like the 3.5 & coaxials, skip that and get a set of the best components you can afford (forget the 6x9's also, spend that money on other stuff for your system).  Use the kicks for the components upfront, try to get 6.5" components.  Im not very experienced with the MA's, how much are you looking at paying for them?  I can recommend the MTX 7500's, Alpine TypeR and JLw3 is the 200$ (US) per 12" price range.  Good luck, if you have other questions I would start another thread, as this one is contaminated.

Well i said that because it has one every sound quality competition it that nakamichi has every competed it... Nothing even came close to the score that the 700ii had. And no, the W7 isn't the best woofer ever made. That is why it doesn't win every competiton, though it is a great woofer undisputably. Sorry, but Nak makes better head units than any kenwood out there! Wait till you listen to one and then comment back, because i have listened to all the kenwood one's myself.