It turns out that my salesguy forgot to order me the Bose upgrade which-- even though it may not sound great-- is actually quite a deal for $700 as the standard system is only 50 watts in total (25 x 2) and uses cheap paper cone speakers.
So I went to a highly recommended guy here in Manhattan and he replaced the door speakers and dash tweeters with a Morel Elate 903 three-way component system (8"+ woofers) and installed an Alpine PDX-F6 600-watt amp (4 x 150) up against the front firewall, and now with a decent source the system sounds incredible without needing a sub-woofer (and is so capable that it makes horribly over-compressed satellite radio sound even worse than it does on a cheap system, lol). The only thing I didn't do was put in rear speakers using the grills behind the seats, but as the seats block those grills and muffle the sound anyway, I didn't think it was worth it or necessary.
It wound up costing me a lot of dough (around $3500 all-in, including an excellent installation job) but for the quality of the top-down sound it was well worth it. (Yes, the engine note sounds great but on a road trip I love listening to great tunes.)
So if you're thinking about upgrading your system, this is a great way to do it at a bit over half the price of a Burmeister (and it probably sounds better than a Burmeister), and due to the woofers in the Morels you won't even need a sub-woofer.
So I went to a highly recommended guy here in Manhattan and he replaced the door speakers and dash tweeters with a Morel Elate 903 three-way component system (8"+ woofers) and installed an Alpine PDX-F6 600-watt amp (4 x 150) up against the front firewall, and now with a decent source the system sounds incredible without needing a sub-woofer (and is so capable that it makes horribly over-compressed satellite radio sound even worse than it does on a cheap system, lol). The only thing I didn't do was put in rear speakers using the grills behind the seats, but as the seats block those grills and muffle the sound anyway, I didn't think it was worth it or necessary.
It wound up costing me a lot of dough (around $3500 all-in, including an excellent installation job) but for the quality of the top-down sound it was well worth it. (Yes, the engine note sounds great but on a road trip I love listening to great tunes.)
So if you're thinking about upgrading your system, this is a great way to do it at a bit over half the price of a Burmeister (and it probably sounds better than a Burmeister), and due to the woofers in the Morels you won't even need a sub-woofer.