Im looking at component systems for my car this summer. Yet im torn between the 5 1/4" Mb quart premiums or the 5 1/4" Infinity kappa perfects. I do favor infinitys simplely because i currently have two kappa perfects 10 dvq, although i am upgrading to two 10w7's. Any suggestions, or experences would help. I'll take positive or negative comments on the speakers, anything would help to get some more insite. Thanks
How bout the mb quart Q series. Are they worth the money or would you be better off getting something like the kappa perfects or mb premiums at hundreds less the price.
I've done a little more research and looked at the boston acoustic z's and the pro's. Also the focal k2's or utopias, even dynaudio, or a/d/s. Ive even heard good things about the old mb quart premiums, psd's. Another thing im not just looking at 5.25 im looking for 6.5 also. I'll put 6.5 in the front and 5.25 in the rear. My price range is 1000-100 per pair.
The Q series is a great set, as are the Kappa Perfects. They are BRIGHT in the tweeter area, though. If you like a strong tweeter, either is a great set, I like the Quarts a tad better overall though, I feel the Quarts have the better midbass driver. If you like warm and more neutral, Focal and Dynaudio would be the better choice, both are excellent.
Looks to me like im in the mist of a battle between titans. I guess what im ultimately after is a component set with very high sq. Thanks for the help jon, but i still have no idea what would be the best set for me. Also it doesn't help that i have no place to hear these speakers for myself, and not enough money to experiment, so im am completely relying on others opinions. Thanks though jon what you said i will take into consideration in my choice.
All of them have top notch sound quality, they just have their own character. It also boils down to the installation. I personally like more neutral sets, I use Dynaudios in my system, but that doesn't mean you'll like them. They're very laid back, meaning they're neutral and not overly strong in any frequency range. They work very well with music that prides itself on instrumental and vocal content, such as Jazz, Classical, Acoustic Rock, Pop. If you're a hardcore music listener, you'll probably want something more in tune with the music's characteristics, simply because they are very laid back and hard rock and rap listeners tend to prefer more powerful sets. The Quarts and Perfects pride themselves more on Hard Rock and Rap(but they do classical, etc very nicely as well). The Quarts and Perfects are brighter sounding, and are more of a power set, with stronger tweeter (harsh at times) and a punchier midbass.
There we go, now thats some info i can really use. i guess thats what i was looking for, what the strong points of the speakers are and what each sounds like. I guess in this case i would be leaning toward the perfects or quarts. because i do listen to classic rock, and alternative mostly, yet i do listen to jazz, so the quarts or perfects would work the best. Yet, (im sorry to keep going here), but now i have a choice between the premiums, perfects, or even the mb quart q's. also one more thing since i got your attention, sortof. I read a review about the quart premiums and the guy that wrote the review used one 6 channel amp on only the front system, since the crossovers are biampable. He used channel 1&2 on the right, 3&4 on the left, and 5&6 for the tweets, respectivably. He claimed that even if he used just one channel per side, from another amp that would give equal power, by using multichannels the sound reproduction was noticably better. I consider myself a conasour of great sound but would that really be worth all the time, hassle, and money. Thanks again.
Biamping with a passive crossover is a waste of an amplifier channel IMO. If you were to spend the money on an amp to biamp passives, you might as well go out and buy an active crossover and get even more benefit from it, such as higher damping of the drivers, more power and headroom from the amplifier since you're removing the signal before the amplifier gets it, and easily tuneable crossover frequency and slope.