Speaker placement....speaker placement...speaker placement...if you don't have that you are not going to have much with any speaker you use. I have heard cars with "low end" product sound fantastic due to proper speaker placement and tuning. I have heard three times as many cars with "high end" equipment sound like shit. I bet Toby remembers Tyrone Chestnut and the Earl Zausmeyer (I doubt I spelled that correctly) guy with the BMW. Tyrone had an Acura Lengend with a very simple system in it. Nobody could beat the guy because it was so well put together. Earl Zausmeyer had these obnoxious 15k speakers in the front of his car. Tyrone and I listened to his car at IASCA finals...we both were like WTF? IT sounded horrible. That was just one example.

Now taken into account a good install with proper speaker placement,tuning, and overall high quality. I will take a high end product because I know that product will perform flawlessly for years.