SWEET!
Could you expand on your stereo mods, or did you build a thread for it? Did you start with Alpine or HK?
Were the Focal/DDs an easy speaker swap, did they go right in the stock locations?
Was the Maestro DSR1 a plug and play swap for the factory part? How much more power, how many channels, and how much cleaner?
Who made that sweet sub box?!
My system started as the HK. Nothing was really true "drop in" but nothing required cutting, either. At most adapters needed to be fab'd to make it happen.
The maestro DSR1 is "plug and play" so to speak but you still obviously need to wire up the amps and tune everything. The DSR1 is just the integration piece as I'm using the Mosconi as my DSP, I have 3 amps vs the single harmon kardon amp so the power isn't even remotely comparable. My sub amplifier (m1d) is putting out close to its peak of 1700 watts RMS at 1 ohm to my subs. I have two 4 channel ss4b's that are setup full 3 way active at the front (6 channels total) and then the last two channels running the rear setup passive. The SS4B's are capable of 350 Watts x 4 @ 2 ohm (so a total of 1400 watts RMS per amplifier). I'm not using that much for my speaker setup, but if I were to guess I'd be around a total of ~800 watts or so to the front stage and then probably 100 or so on the rear speakers. So TL;DR the power difference is incredible. If I were to compare the HK system at say, 35, that would probably be about 17-19 on the volume dial right now.
Ignoring the power output obviously the clarity and soundstage of the HK doesn't even come close to the aftermarket.
Had a local car audio shop build it up for me. If you're in the states and looking for a custom box I'd check out mobiletoys (
http://www.mobiletoysinc.com/) they make some incredibly nice stuff. If it wasn't for the shipping involved I'd have considered them for my box.