clearly iam not saying that just saying that technology is avalible at a fraction of the price, it doesnt take a genius to put a watch together and same goes with stereo. I think having a 2000$ head unit is excessive when you will be running all your speakers through amps and even if your not the untrained ear cannot tell the diffrence between the two but the untrained eye can see the diffrence in your bank statement after you spend 2000$ or 350$ to listen to cds in your car. If we all wanted perfect sound in our cars we should just all drive around with our ipods in our ears but oh wait that will take away from the oh look/forcable listen (even if you dont want to you cannot get away from it as i drive past with my amps on 11) at my sick stereo installation factor