Yeah you're right, there is two levels of SONY X-plode's, Mo obviously has the better end of the scale. But for $600 when compared to say Alpine Type X (not even type R) the alpines will blow them away!!!
Have you also ever seen the SCA (NOT SONY) X-PLOD!?
Heard a rumour about a shop having lots of proper sony 6"s, which they thought were absolute rubbish. Went to supercheap and bought heaps of the X-PLOD speakers, threw their grills away, put the sony grill in the boxes and happilly sold the no-names as proper X-plodes as they sound better!!!
Sony don't care much about ICE, thats not where there money is. On their lower end head units the stereo spill (left through right and vice versa) used to be so bad - around 40% (when alpine is about 4%) that they didn't even claim there head units where STEREO!!! They where technically a mono head unit!!! :cool: