Originally Posted by TBSpyder
What do you mean? Sound Advice has carried JL for as long as I can remember. They've always carried "higher" end products, but I think that's only one of the reasons for their success. Alot rides on the installers though. Every installer I know who works there has been an installer for over 5 years...most over 10 years....and some over 20 years.
I thought the sound advice JL relationship was fairly new...I stand corrected. I never meant to say that Sound Advice didn't have nice stuff, or do nice work. My point was, that the sound quality of their installs is probably not any better with JL, than it was before they had it. I can remember when their big brands were rockford, Yamaha, and Sony.
Brand names are important, but not everything. Personally, I want a product that I know is tried and true, and a company that stands behind that product. I'm sure there's cheapy equipment out there that could be hard to tell apart from higher priced equipment, but that alone still wouldn't necessarily sway me to go with it. Kind of like a Kia may have all the features and specs of a Nissan, but I would still never buy a Kia.
That's why I said only to consider the mainstream, recognized brands, so we wouldn't have to have Kia's and Nissan's in the same group...more Nissans and Toyota's. I also said we were only considering sound quality, so your points about features and warranty don't apply here.
Toby