The System 360 is an expensive set that retails well over $1000 (though "street price" will usually be in the $800 range). It consists of an 8" midbass driver, a 3" dome midrange, a 1" compact dome tweeter, and a matching crossover network. The midbass driver is a touch over 3" deep, the midrange is around 1.5" deep. Depth wise, the system should fit into most doors or kick panels.
As far as installation, this set is not for the faint of heart. They aren't conventional in the sense that they're going to fit easily in stock door locations, which is somewhat a good thing because they don't deserve a mediocre install
. It takes some serious work to get these drivers installed correctly. The midrange uses a rather high crossover frequency (700hz) and necessitates careful attention to placement in relation to the midbass driver. Having the midbass far forward in the doors and the midrange in kick panels should give good results in most vehicles if attention is paid to aiming the drivers. Whichever way you cut it, the midbass and midrange drivers need to be as close to one another as possible. The tweeter will do best in close proximity to the midrange as well, though good results can be had in pillars or sail panels with some attention to alignment. So the important part: sound.
The first thing that stands out about this set is the imaging capability. When properly implemented you'll get near holographic imaging from these speakers, with the strongest points being the incredible depth and stability of imaging cues. The separation of instruments and different point sources is excellent, often to the extent that you'd swear you could reach out and touch the musicians
One thing Dyn focuses on in a system is phase coherency and bandwidth optimization of the drivers, this really pays off in the imaging department.The second is the neutral, revealing nature of the speakers. Clarity and definition is excellent. This is a set that will bring out EVERYTHING in your recording, little subtleties like finger plucks on guitars and the parting of a vocalists lips is incredible, I've even heard an air conditioner running in the back of studio recordings. Note that they will also reveal the flaws that exist on poor (mainstream) recordings. Tonally they are very natural and balanced, because of that they are quite capable of capturing subtleties missed by many other systems out there. They are also smooooooooth. I've taken tons of business trips and vacations, and listening to them for hours I never get listening fatigue.
This is NOT a "ballsy" set. The sound is very musical and dry, not as attacking or forward. You'll get ample midbass from the 8" driver, but it isn't that punchy and somewhat exaggerated type of midbass like you'd get from something like DLS and Focal midbasses or the Rainbow Kickbass drivers. 50hz is a good crossover point with the system. The tweeters are very soft and smooth sounding, they don't really stand out in comparison to the rest of the system. Overall these components are about as laid back as it gets. If you like headphones or home audio speakers, that is what these can be compared to moreso than the more common "rip your head off" car audio components out there.
Of course, every speaker system has it's drawbacks. With these, it comes in the form of efficiency. These speakers use huge voice coils on their drivers and need a good bit of power to really sing. The good thing is that they can take lots of power. The set is rated at 200W RMS, but they can take more if you give it to them. I'm pushing mine off of a JL 300/2. It does well, but I'd like to double that if I could. The only other thing I'd really like to see is a higher order crossover on the midrange driver. It's a 1st order set at 700hz, a second order or higher would clean this driver up a bit at high volumes.
Overall, some of the best components in existence (from my experience at least). These really excel on vocals, some of the most natural vocal clarity and realism you'll experience. I've been nothing but satisfied with these components and I'm not parting with them any time soon. Some SEAS Lotus components may make a future vehicle, but not at the expense of losing these.