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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1521052" data-attributes="member: 11896">I understand your love of cd's still having them myself, but years ago I started ripping them to mp3 to go on my phone.  I have now gone through 2 different libraries pillaging their cd's as I can go in and grab a good 15-20 cd's at a time and ripped them so I have a total of 243 albums on my phone now.  You could cut the price of the deck in half if you get rid of the cd/dvd option and you will not lose any sound on 5 x 7s.  I have it set up so that all I do is put the disk in the player and if it has not ripped it, it does automatically.But if not, I understand.  For speakers I would take a hard pass on the kicker.  They make some good subs and amps but I have never been impressed with their speakers.  alpine/kenwood either or really between those two if those are the choices.  Follow your ear and go with what you think sounds best since you are the final judge.  Sound is subjective and what one person likes another will hate.  One of the shops I use to work at sold infinity and I installed a lot of them and never had one I liked.  The tweeters were just too rich/loud and made me want to get out of the cars but the people that like their ears bleeding would get in, crank it up and smile for miles...As for the price if they are getting $100/pair for the speakers that means the deck/speakers/kit/harness should be around 1300ish.  What year car is this going into?  I ask because on the 94/95 I know there is an easy way to bypass the amps and still use the stock wiring which would not make a difference in sound, but save them from running wires from the deck to each speaker.  If they are just counting on running new wire well then there is labor and parts on top of that and it can add up.  If it is a 94/95 I am not sure what the standard price is in your area for a deck and 4 speakers but a couple of calls to some competitors on their labor rates would tell you.  If it isn't a 94/95 and they are running wires then again it depends on where you are located.  I installed in southern indiana were a deck and 4 was $75(20 years ago) and also in Scottsdale where it was closer to your $1300 mark, but it was a brand new 911 twin turbo.  The market matters.</blockquote>