Well if you look at my review of the DD761BW, I’m making the same points . Please read it first b/c it’ll save me saying the same thing a lot. I’ll just cut to the chase. The price is too low to seem like this could possibly be good stuff. The more of an audio buff you are the more strange the price will be. I absolutely positively would not have bought either of these items had i been on the market for them. They came to me as review items by way of Vines. I tend to consider Alpine’s stuff low end and am bordering on how hipsters act about bands when it comes to my audio equipment. If anyone else has it, if anyone else has heard of it it’s probably not even something I’d think of getting. It’s pretentious and stupid but I just developed into an audio snob over the years. Our two main vehicles have factory installed equipment and being middle aged I don’t need to blow everyone off the block to overcompensate for any inadequacies real or perceived. If I did however, this would definitely make my list. Moreover I’d enjoy it all the more as pretentious windbags tried to look at it and say "SSL, that’s what? Did you get it at a flea market or something." My response would generally be "I can’t hear you" as the bass was shaking the ground. And not obnoxious, loud for its own sake bass, but legitimate low frequency bass – think Lux Aterna or Adagio for Strings.
This little guy is small, powerful, inexpensive and easy to install. So easy the installers threw it in for free when I got the DB761 installed. Yes, on that car b/c it was the track car audio was not something i had put much in to. It had the factory Bose system and corresponding speakers and while good, was garbage compared to the SSL….