After 27 pages of high brow reading, I gotta chime in, and its a bit long. Yeah, two guys in van blah blah, I'll chalk it up to bad marketing plan - apparently Bose has marketing down to a science. I do want to meet these cats, maybe they'll let me take a speaker apart to see whats inside. I can't talk about all of the famous white van models, for the following info am only referring to MTS(Millenium Theatre Systems)
-The website looks as professional as any other online store
-The magazine looks legit, although no longer in prodcution.
-They have tech support and warranty plans, gotta be worth something.
-An actual review at [Link: associatedcontent.com] - He may not be an audophile, but he seems to have a lot of threads about random crap.
-Knee jerk reaction is to be pissed but people seem to like the systems once they hook them up. MTS could be legit, and if I get approached, I may offer $20 for a pair of them. The box must be worth that much. If you have some speakers, take them apart and tell us whats inside, what kind of speakers, circuitry. People dont even say if they 6's or 15's, and thats the basics. We may find that they are of decent build quality, but we only seem to have two kinds of people posting in threads - people that are upset because they feel scammed, and people who think that people who buy speakers out of vans are idiots. While both of you are right, lets figure out some comparison, are the insides you can get for $30 at MCM or Radio Shack, or are they from a more reputable manufacturer. Somebody supplied the good, somebody put them together and somebody knows whats inside. Its audio gear, lets figure out if its any good.