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Message: [QUOTE="UNBROKEN, post: 1253873, member: 24"] Gonna run through this real quick so if I miss something just ask. I'm not saying go buy the Arc Black kit....I'm saying Arc rebrands SB Acoustics drivers in their kits. Arc sells the kit for ~$800 bucks. The individual drivers from Madisound are about $75 each. It's a no brainer IF you were doing an active system which I assume you're not. The Focal Flax is hands down better than the Hertz kit at virtually the same price....that would be my pick. The Illusion Carbon C10 will beat the JL TW3 in every aspect....but at 3 times the cost. The JL will do...just don't expect to be blown away by it. This is a case of you get what you pay for. The single most important part will be your install. No matter how much you spend on front speakers if you don't address the deficiencies in the front doors you'll be wasting your money. You absolutely have to dampen the doors but I'm sure you know that already. The next thing you absolutely have to do is fabricate some covers for the big holes in the doors. I use .050 aluminum sheet cut to size, deadened then screwed on. Your door speakers are in a quasi-infinite baffle configuration. If you leave big holes in the door you have a free-air configuration....and a big waste of money. In other words....seal the doors. LOL Oh yea...while you're deadening the doors, slap some CLD inside the door panels too. I know many will say use CCF and MLV also and there's pro's and con's to that. The fact is you're never gonna completely deaden one of these trucks. I've tried. I've spent thousands of dollars on dampening and noise suppression and it still sounded like a truck at highway speeds. Yes it was quieter but not dead quiet. You just can't fight that vertical windshield for wind noise. At most I'd add some 1/8" CCF to the inner door frame and call it done. Any more questions fire away... [/QUOTE]