Hahah, It does sound amazing, My car has a rather good Bose system and I have a Pioneer SX-1080 with Advent Speakers which is in excellent shape, and the Panasonic does not make me miss them, I feel the new speakers have more detail and better bass then the old ones, I've always been a Panasonic 3 piece fan, in the 2000's I brought home several of the awesome black three piece ones they made, All were loved, They didn't have the beauty of the RX-C100 though, I love its sharp angular lines, and no nonsense design, The white speakers were very cool, But I actually really like the look of the black ones too, they blend well with the grills, and the black goes with the dark tinted display, I have kept the old ones though, The shop said one of them, has a voice coil that will not live long, For some reason, the dust cap is factory glued on, But around part of it there is no glue, He said the glue went under the cover and stuck to the voice coil and damaged it, Weird, I bought the 17 dollars worth of D batteries, Panasonic Alkaline of course! I'll have to take more pictures of it, Its literally mint! I've fallen in love with it!