^^ yeah thats why I refrained from posting but A challenege has been issued.

Kenwood MP4028 (05 series)

Best deck I've ever had for sound quality. The internal amp puts out a modest 17watts(ces200 compliant) of power at 12v but you can tell its struggling because the display will dim on bass notes. With the car on there is no such problems. The specs put the preouts at 4v, from the three amps I have driven on it, they get best output without tuning at a little over 3.5 on the gain but still better than any 2v deck I've used.

The MP3 playback is smooth enough, it takes 9 seconds from drive load to begin playing a fully loaded CDRW, 6 or 7 for a CDR. I did have problems using a cheap laptop LG CDRW drive to burn discs, problem went away when I used a better burner.

The remote controls only the basic functions tone/volume tracks and has numbers for direct folder/track access but you cannot get to the crossover or system settings menu from it.

Diamond D312d2 (05 series)
400 RMS 800 Peak
Awesome output for the price, likes to throw power around. Modest enclosure requirements, I got a almost flat ported box response with 2cuft. Very versitile, I have had very good results with ported boxes tuned high and low.

Polk 300.2 (03 series)
450wRMS at 4ohms
220wRMS x 2 at 2ohm stereo
Best amp in the world. Honestly, its built like a tank, looks very professional and hides all the wires with the shrouds on. The internal capacitance is insanely high, there are three rows of 10 high value capacitors buffering the regulated power supply inside this baby. The lowpass crossover is 18db/octave the 15hz subsonic filter is 24db/octave.

it has a 1/2" thick aluminum heatsink which covers three sides of the amp and has never gotten too hot to touch even after several hours of play during roadtrips. This only drawback is that it uses a/b circutry and for that reason I would get the polk 500.1 that uses class D for subs.