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Stunning
Date of Review: Jun 28, 2004
Bought my wife a new Lexus RX330 recently. Lexus offers a great Mark Levinson 11-speaker system as an option, BUT you also have to buy the NAV system and other expensive add-ons that increase the car's cost by $7,000 or more.
The base stereo in this beautiful car has 8 speakers, including two woofers in the rear door, but the sound was terrible, suitable only for listening to talk radio. We left the factory head unit and rear door speakers in place and had HiFi Buys install the JL Audio 300/4 amp and two MB Quart 6.5" PCE216s in the front door.
We are not audiophiles, but both of us were stunned at the results. Not only do the MB Quarts sound great, but the remaining factory speakers sound better as well. We sat in the car for an hour last night listening to everything from ZZ Top to classical music and everything sounded natural and super clean.
Now the sound system is the equal of the rest of the car -- I plan to go back and listen to Mark Levinson again, think we're equal or better now.
