HERTZ ESK-165.5 6.5" 300W Peak 2-Way Component Speaker System

Great sounding component set. May be unbeatable for the price here at Amazon. This Hertz set replaced a set of Infinity Reference components which temporarily replaced my 25 year old Kef Kar's (which finally lost a tweeter). The Infinity Reference set was respectable but this set is a notch above. A bit different sonically, but on par with the Kef's. Tweeter is more detailed than the Kef's while still remaining pretty darn smooth, which is a plus.For anyone interested ... The external crossover is a simple 6db low pass on the mid (iron core inductor) and a 12db high pass for the tweeter (air core inductor and electrolytic capacitor). The tweeter level/attenuation looks to be a couple of simple, 1.5 ohm resistors that are switched with a small, 3 position switch (-2db / 0db / +2 db). Not an ideal way to control tweeter level but I didn't hear any negatives in the tweeter response aside from the overall level changes. I keep the tweeter set to 0db (0db setting most likely switches in one of the resistors). My only "gripe" is that a film cap on the tweeter network would have been nice. Regardless, the tweeters sound excellent.I'm an older, old school dude with an old school system in a 30 year old extended cab pickup ... Nak CD head unit, older class AB amp driving the mids and highs, a couple of 10" subs etc. (no fancy time alignment or digital EQ). My favorite car audio speakers were Kef's and Cantons. Neither company has been in the car audio business for ages now. These Hertz speakers are different than both, but a worthy replacement. I'm happy to have found these to replace my beloved Kef's. IMO, these are a steal at the price they are selling here. Makes me wonder how good the top of the line Hertz components are.Installation is most of the battle. I assume that, in large part, that still holds true even with modern digital time alignment and eq. ; - )

They sound great

These were priced so affordable how could I not make the purchase. These speaker are 100W RMS (never go by peak wattage) which is entirely more than enough for my Scion FR-S. I paired these with a new Alpine PDX-F4 100Wx4 amp and utilized my existing [after-market] Pioneer head unit replacing my interior door/dash speakers, eliminating my rear speakers altogether and the factory amp. These speakers are loud and clear. The crossovers that come in the box are simple to setup with their printed on labels and pretty enough to mount where they can be seen if that's what you're going for. The crossover is preset to the speakers so there's no adjustments necessary. The tweeters come with mounts to house them that double as sort of a stand for when you might not have a great place to mount them hidden away. There were also 2 double sided foam stickies that I used to mount the tweeter stands to parts of the car under the mesh grills on my dash. It worked out perfectly. There are no mounting adapters included but that's not a con as any car that requires them probably need something specific to the car. I was able to cut a nice adapter from acrylic and use sticky-sided weather stripping to form a nice seal behind the speaker and the custom adapter. Whereas my factory speakers and amp were garbled at 50% output (and not very loud), these new speakers are quite clear at 100% and loud enough to force my fiance to cover her ears. These work great solo but they work even better when paired with some nice low bass in a sub-woofer.

Garbage component crossover and tweeters. Huge dissapointment. Blew a crossover 1st day installed. Tweeters are shot also. RMA customer service needs improvement. Was told crossover would ship back to me 8/8 or 8/9 Shipped 8/15… dissapointing to say the least. I hate giving poor reviews, this isn't normal. Midwoofers are great.

Wow these speakers put out some power and noise. They aren't the best for sound quality when you're comparing to brands like Focal, but they are LOUD. Great for my Miata since it is a convertible and it needs loud for the top down. I'm powering 125watts bridged rms from a rockford fosgate r250x4. Sound amazing compared to the JLs I had before. I just wish the woofers came with speaker harnesses.

One of the Tweeters started smoking after about 30 mins of playing and burned up. I bought them as it got cold outside just as winter was coming. so i just put them in as it warmed up outside. So the purchase was so long ago that i didn't even try to send them back.As for the sound quality i will opt for going back to JLs as they sounded better for the price.

Put them on my 2011 street glide.. great sounds.. still sounds great at 80

the highs from the tweets are clear and sharp while the 6.5 mids will kick your doors out if you dont sound deaden them.with this set i was shocked at how much i was missing in music i listen to and i listen to everything except country probably would but parents drove nuts listening to it when i was a kid.they do need to be powered by a amp i have them being fed 125 rms and they could take more if you wanted.would definetly be a good setup for people looking for a full and rich sq setup.