I auditioned the ADS components...
If I an not mistaken ADS is the sister company of Rockford Fosgate. They were bought by the RF company a few years ago. I had a set of ADS speakers a few years ago, they require a bit of equalization I also auditioned them at the Monney shop, there is an improvement but still not as sweet as the other competitors. Audition the Rockford Fostgate Fanatic Q series and you will hear ADS sound except with a toned down highs, the transient response on the RF components are better than the ADS. You did not mention what type of music you listen to and how loud do you listen to it. By the way I have tried a lot of speakers through the years, even USD Waveguides and one thing is for certain you can spend $ 10,000 dollars on a pair of super exotic speaker but if you did not install it correctly a $ 300.00 speaker will still sound better if installed correctly. Speaker placement is the most important element here. On the MDX I have tried every manageable configuration. Kick panel installation was crossed out. The midbass response was nice but the highs was blocked off at your knees due to the height of the seats, this type of installation works better on a sedan or a regular low seat configuration. I was suprised that to find out that the oem door mounting produced good midbass response. I tried mounting the tweets in the oem tweeter pods, no good. I could localize the left and right seperation right away regardless where I point the tweeters. Took out the A-pillar pointed it towards each other, nope, imaged was smudged off center and too low. Pointed them towards the windshield, even after I played around with the delay, the highs still bounced off like crazy. The right channel sound would smudge towards off center to the left and vice versa on the left channel. Finally decided to point the tweets towards the rear view mirror. Wow, imaging was centered high and sounded like it extended in front of the windshield. Sorround sounds from movies stayed left and right accordingly and the when left and right channels are played at the same time it was always centered. You know when you get it right when other people ask you where the speakers are or if is it located in the center of the dashboard. Lesson learned, with time and patience speaker placement pays dividends on how your system will sound. Even though the system was designed for sorround sound duties, regular music stills sounds they way it should. Most systems are a compromise for what it was designed for, I was lucky that in my case it worked out for the best.