Jewcano

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Hey guys, i decided to switch my speakers in my car....most are blown. I have the nak system now, the sub is still ok , so im just changing the components out for coaxials. I decided to go with these, since im on a budget, a low low budget. What ya'll think?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1

engin_ear

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Seems like an OK choice given your budget.

Jewcano

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well i heard MB's are good, so i decided to choose these over some polk from another company.

Baby ///M3

Quarts are excellent speakers as I have them in my BMW.

One thing though. MBQ speakers have been criticized by some enthusiasts for being a bit too sharp to the ears (due to their higher notes in the higher frequencies).

Boston Acoustics and Polks are more bassy compare to the MBQ ones.

I am personally very pleased with my Quarts.

Jon

Jewcano

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Well as far as i know, my Nak Sub is still in good condition i checked on it the other day....14 year old car and it looks flawless...the speakers however......diaphram torn all the way around. Im not to worried about the MB's not having a great base, thats what the sub is for......

kietlander

i might be dissapointed with the discus speakers though. they are mb quarts economy line. ever since mb quarts merge with fosgate... it hasent been the same.

Jewcano

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So wait, i read reviews on these, and they arent too bad on the reviews.....But what your saying...ill make a comparison.....your saying its like jaguar used to be good, and then they met with ford, and now ford owns jaguar? is that what you mean?

kietlander

pretty much . the price on MB quart products have dropped.... there stuff isnt even made in germany anymore..

Percy

Seems like they're just banking on the name now...

Not surprised that they're still using iron core inductors in their crossovers...good for hysterisis distortion. Rainbow Reference does the same crappy thing.

Percy

Baby ///M3

According to some people, the same can probably for PPI amps or even Cilfford alarms.

It's been almost 10 years since I installed the Quarts on my BMW. Looks like things have really changed since then.

Jon

will33184

ya it is true. mbquart is now owned by fosgate. And as a above person said, ppi now owned by directed, but directed is not a horrible company.

but see, you gotta like put this in your perspective. since you are only talking about the discus coaxial (60$), the fact that fosgate owns mbquart doesnt really matter. If you were going to spend say, 5000$ on mbquart Q series components, and Q series amps.... then this would be a huge issue.

to be honest with you, with a 60 dollar budget you are not going to noitce to big of a difference between any brand you pick. However, people will generally steer you towards infinity reference, polk's lower line, the mb quart discus, etc... Another good brand to consider is CDT's coaxial. In the end though, as long as you dont buy like BOSS or Pyramid, itll make no difference. Coaxials at 60$ are all almost the same.

go with the mbquarts, you shouold be happy with them. But as always if you buy them from ebay, know that there is no real warranty.

kietlander

i would actually check out www.sounddomain.com they usually have good prices and come with all warrenties.