you ever stop to think there might be a reason behind the cost diffrence? mabie its that DC has the small production overhead, keeps quality control up, or that the sub has better specs, or that kicker is a mas produced sub using the cheapest materials and chinese labor, whereas DC has a US based assembly plant and that their support is based in the US not india, and i still have yet to find more than 5 companies that i can call up and ask to talk to the owner (rusty) and actually get through