Love stock sound?

I agree with kfr, I have less than $400 rapped up in my sub system and would not go any other way. I purchased my MTX801D refurbished from an authorized dealer for $160 and a set of MTX MXS1004 10" subs from the same dealer for $90 for the pair. I built the box myself and woo hoo, nice clean bass at moderate levels. Just goes to show that you do not need to spend thousands of dollars on a system to get good sound. As a matter of fact I have less than a grand into my set up and not only by my ear but by others as well, it sounds worlds better than any stock system that I have ever heard.

Alpine CDA9833 $299 on sale at Crutchfield

Diamond Audio M661s 6.5" components on sale for $200 (last years model)

MTX Thunder 6000 components for rear fill $70 on sale (last years model)

Cadence Q400 4 channel amp $200

MTX 801D mono Amp $160 (refurbished)

2 MTX MXS1004 10" subs $90

Dual 10" Box for subs $50 total cost in materials

Best system I have had in years at half of the cost that I have spent on other systems I have built.

Just my 2 cents.

Chris

2 way is mid range + tweeter

3 way (triaxial) is mid range + larger tweeter? + small tweeter

so on, ect, et al.

I have cs5000 componantsin front with their tweeters, and 6x9 kappas in the back, on a hifonics zeus zx6400 (200.00 on ebay.) and I love it, but Ive blown all my cheap subs, and now am saving to upgrade.  With out subs it get way high, way clear, and way load with almost no bass (head unit crossover set to 70 hz highpass)  I cant say it enough I LOVE IT.  Man I have a sort of cheap Sony head unit, and eveyone says they suck, but I don't see it, I have had two of them and the first one started skipping when I was smoking.  this one never skips, and I think it sounds great, but I have no basis for comparison.  I dont know why, but my brothers stock 98 gt mach 460 sound system, is ok to me, but he wont trade it for anything, I have tried several times to upgrade his beats with my hand me down parts.

I had some mid grade pioneers in all my interiors once, but I have to say that titanium tweets sound like metal washing over you, i like the silk dome tweeters of the infinities, some people complain about the harshness of them, but I used the -3db setting on the tweeters, and its fine to me.  at least it sounds smooth and nothing like metal.  I dont know what mylar dome sounds like.

thats all I have for now.

Kevin

I was under the impression:

2 way: Woofer+Tweeter

And man, I wish I had a setup in my car that woulda kept me happy. I've since upgrades my HU(Twice), all 4 interiors which will be yanked for even better as the next stage of the project, subs and an amp which will then again be upgrade. So far, the HU is the only project that is done. Everything else is just getting me by. And that doesn't even include the energy it'll take to finish sound dampening this thing. *sigh* BTW, I'd advise, avoid this damn car at all costs with sound.

Most righteous dude, I think you may be right.  My old pioneers where 3 way, and it just had the blue woofer cone, and two tweeters.  To me, a tweeter is a tweeter though.

Kevin

I personally put a couple subs in the trunk with an amp wired to the stock HU with a line converter and it was nice to have some low end to back up the rest of the stock system.  A few weeks after that I added a Sony CDX-M630 (say it sucks if you want but I love it, and when I turn it off it blends in with my interior) and WOW, what a difference.  Im still sporting the 10 year old stock speakers for now, but I know when I do finally upgrade them I will definitly notice the difference and be VERY happy. 

I'd say the first thing to upgrade would be the HU (I know, I did subs first, but hey I got 'em cheap, and HONEST I wasnt going to add anything to this car!).  Actually before I added ANYTHING I would add an alarm if you don't already have one.  Its a bummer when you come out and find someone "borrowed" your HU.  Oh well, at least they didnt rip up or break anything getting it out, and didnt know about the subs in the trunk!