Oh heck yeah, Kenwood is timeless to some degree. Your 2001 setup is more familiar. And I do remember Focal....OUCH! Dreamed but wasn't going to swing for the fence on trying to afford those. I sought to find super tight bass, smooth mids and gentle highs in my setup. One of the best tweeters I have ran I wish I had kept them) was a pair of DLS made somewhere in Europe as I recall. Soft dome tweeter. Awesome sound without killing the ear like some hard domes do. I listened to a lot of music genres back then, but always favored jazz when it came to dialing in the sound quality. Liked that tight bass string, and solid hit of a bass drum without the typical forever bandpass roll off that hung forever. That said, one of my favorite songs to load and play was the opening theme to the movie Gettysburg. The bass in that song was tremendous. The piece was so full of sound throughout from brass to strings to woodwinds it really showed off what a properly setup unit could sound like.