[sgh]

For whatever reason I can't for the life of me figure out why I'm continuing to second guess myself so much with my audio build.


Initially I was going to do an OEM Audio Plus build with an 8100NEX. I decided to up that and got a couple of sound shops to do up a build quote, mostly consisting of Focal KRX2's or Morell Elates, Alpine PDX or JL amplification with JL subs and Audison DSP.


I then bounced back down to just doing the OEM Audio Plus build, then bounced back up to going all the way with a build focused around Focal Utopia BE No. 5 / No. 7 with Mosconi zero 3 amplification.


I'm not looking to simply throw money away. In Canadian pricing, I'm probably looking at somewhere around $3,500 for the OEM Audio Plus build (with replacement head) which in some ways feels like too much money for not a lot (though I could be wrong). At the other extreme if I go with the Utopia's and Mosconi's I'm probably clocking in right around the $20k mark which feels like too much money to be putting into a car audio system when I only drive my car a couple of times a week and will not be doing any audio competitions or anything. The midpoint with KRX2's or Elates is going to be around a $12k build and I start thinking both directions from there - too much to spend for what I probably get over the OEM Audio Plus build, and if I'm spending $12k on that build, I may as well spend $20k on the Utopia and Mosconi build.


Am I just overthinking this? Is the $20k build really that huge of an improvement over the OEM Audio Plus build that it makes it worth dropping the extra $16k on?


Half of me thinks "It's just car audio, it's never going to be as good as home due to the nature of the environment", then the other half of me wants to have as good a system as possible.


Any advice? Have you experienced the same dilemma and if so what did you do? Would you do the same again?


Thanks all.