MB Quart Premium PVI216 6.5″ 2-Way Component/Convertible Coaxial Speakers Description:
6.5″ 2-Way Component/Convertible Coaxial Speakers with 70-140 Watt Power Rating and 38Hz-32kHz Frequency. Founded in the early 60’s in Obrigheim, Germany, MB Quart is known worldwide for designing and manufacturing innovative and technically advanced audio products. From car, marine and home loudspeakers, MB Quart products exemplify “German Engineering.” The Premium line of speakers provides superior sound quality and the promise of above and beyond high-end performance. The unique convertible feature lets the removable tweeter to be used in both coax and component applications. MB Quart most recently revolutionized the mobile loudspeaker industry with WideSphere technology that emits extra-wide sound dispersion to listeners in order to enjoy the full range of music from almost any seating position in a vehicle. Audio and marine loudspeaker systems are put through stringent tests under the most extreme environmental conditions. Decades of refinement with meticulous attention to detail and tolerances in hand-built components have earned MB Quart a distinguished reputation for quality manufacturing, unmatched reliability and extraordinary performance. Praised by countless world-wide audio press awards and critical listeners around the world, MB Quart brings extraordinary engineering expertise, experience and design philosophy to a truly global Maxxsonics brand. Parent company, Maxxsonics USA, offers decades of combined experience and distinction with four brands MB QUART, Hifonics, Autotek and Crunch. We independently support and maintain these best-in-class brands to bring you some of the biggest, baddest and coolest products in the car, marine and home audio industry. Maxxsonics designers and engineers take great care and satisfaction in producing only the finest quality products to exceed your needs. Look for the stylized blue “M” on your product and packaging. It stands for quality, performance and power you can only get from Maxxsonics.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2352 in Car Audio or Theater
- Color: Black
- Brand: MB Quart
- Model: PVI216
- Dimensions: 3.90″ h x 17.10″ w x 19.70″ l,
Features
- 6.5″ 2-Way Component/Convertible Coaxial Speakers with 70-140 Watt Power Rating and 38Hz-32kHz Frequency (Sold in Pairs)
- Includes 40mm WideSphere tweeter assembly that fully addresses the inherent speaker problem of directional sound dispersion in a vehicle
- Aluminum-coated phase plug, magnet heat sink cup for voice coil cooling and separate off-coaxial mounting configurations
- Premium performance crossover with three-level tweeter attenuation
- Two-piece carbon-fiber reinforced composite chassis and polypropylene cone with edge-wound 1 voice coils and gold-plated connection
Customer Reviews:
Well worth it at any price!
I am ABSOLUTELY thrilled I purchased them. They were professionally installed to my factory NAV stereo system. They produce “live-studio” quality sound with clear separation between notes and a powerful response. You will hear all of the instruments. It impressed the pros to ask me where to get them. And, they told me about the top-grade materials/workmanship used in manufacturing. There’s zero distortion when I crank-up the volume (3/4 max) before my ears bleed. I will need a remote and some serious distance to go to max volume. I am not an audiophile but I have paid the money for (Denon, Yamaha, Onkyo, Nakamichi, Bose, B&O, etc.) stereo equipment. It’s truly high-end audio-quality sound without spending all that money.
Like others, I heard the cautious “don’t buy MB Quart because” they were bought by Maxxsonics and are (1). No longer a German company (2). The quality is not good. But FIRST, No one that said this to me ever heard or installed them. SECOND, Maxxsonics is an American (California) company and if I am going to take a chance on quality then why not American? THIRD, the speakers are still manufactured in Germany. FOURTH, the Premium-Series is 3 levels above their “factory-installed” speaker replacement recommendation.
Lastly, I called Maxxsonics because I got a lot of conflicting installation advice. Also, I needed one extra measurement that I could not find anywhere else. Not only did they answer the phone but they quickly pulled the speaker out of the box to get the information I needed. We talked about configurations and sorted thru all the stuff I was told. They knew I was buying the speakers from someone else and they sent a follow-up email afterwards. That translates to excellent customer service.
Here’s my setup: a Jeep Liberty (2002-2006) with factory-installed NAV stereo system. The factory amps found in the front doors were connected to the MBs. The speaker openings are larger than 6.5 inches so adaptive brackets were used. The tweeters fit perfectly. Forget what anyone says - you do not have to buy shallow-mount speakers for the rear doors. The factory-speakers we pulled out were full-sized. The MB crossovers have 4 settings (0, -1, -3 and -5). I chose zero because I usually set treble at +2. To test the speakers I burned a cd with songs that had lots of transitions, deep-deep bass lows and really-high end notes. The MBs played it like I was sitting in front of a live band. There’s no other stereo equipment in my car. Anybody can spend $5k and get great sound - but do it for less than $500.
I think one reviewer said it best ” BUY THEM.”
Oh, sweet mystery of life I’ve found you.
From the minute I opened the box and felt the weight of the magnets - running my thumbs along the rubber-reinforced polypropylene cones - I knew I’d found what I was looking for.
Finding flaws in audio samples is a sickness I’ve been plagued with since MP3 outpaced CDA. When I dropped these bad boys in my 99 Civic, I was just about cured.
One note: because the factory grills/mounting spot in my Civic was a bit narrow, I had to cut into it to mount them. But amazing sound comes at a price.
Pros:
Solid materials, ingenious construction and the clearest sound I’ve heard in a car yet. I can’t turn my head unit high enough to distort these babies.
Cons:
I gotta divert extra balance wattage to these BC my rear deck Pioneers would totally blow pushing what the Quarts can handle.
Highs are quite bright. Tune the tweeters down a few DB with the x-overs if you don’t have a full system (amp+subs)
Great Sound
When you buy top of the line speakers you expect good things but these are simply great! The speakers are build very well, you can tell that they engineered them in every aspect. These speakers where designed with options in mind, if you want to use them in a Coax configuration you can, it’s simple to unscrew the center cone and screw the tweeter stand in it’s place, the wires for the tweeter pass though the center of the speaker cone and out the other side. The Crossover is build like a tank, it’s heavy and very solid. The internal components are very big, and it has a feeling of being over build. To magnets on the speaker are small but very powerful! The magnets on the tweeters are as big as the tweeter itself and will fly out of your hand if you get them to close to anything metal!
The sound from the tweeters is very good, its not like dome tweeters at all. when listening to music the sound from the tweeters spreads out around you so you have a feeling of not knowing where it comes from. The speakers sound amazingly clear and precise at any volume.
