Help Me Complete My 4Runner Upgrade

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Hello,
Recently purchased my sister in law's mint 2000 4Runner SR5 Highlander. While an excellent truck, as someone who moderated high end home audio forums, it sounds terrible.

So far, I have added a Kenwood DDX 9705s, a pair of Dynaudio Esotec 6.5 Components, and am APC Amplifier to drive the Dynaudios.

As is stands, I plan to use the deck power to drive the rear speakers for fill leaving me with adding a subwoofer and amplifier. Prior, I used a 12W7 ProWedge with the metal bars across it with a JL 500/1.

So far. I have been looking at various 8 inch drivers to be used in a sealed enclosure as SQ is paramount. Mostly been looking at some of the Focal woofers as I loved the K2 Polykevlars that I used in my Land Cruiser years back.

I have also looked at Hertz, Internet Dynamics, Morel, and others. However, I am really trying hard to skew hard towards the proformance to price equation.

I saw on Woofers, etc, a package with dual P30's and a Focal amplifier, but that way well be overkill as again I am thinking a high quality 8 inch woofer in a sealed box.

While, I am pretty up to speed on home audio, car audio I am a bit behind owning to having a Lexus LS460 for years where aside from tapping the rear deck for signal to add a subwoofer, there does not seem much that can be done.

While I am thinking an 8 inch driver, a 10 inch driver would work fine as well. Regardless, my priorities are strongly SQ with the goal of the closest I can get to full range reproduction.

Any ideas you all might have I would greatly appreciate to hear including amplifiers to drive the woofer.
Thanks!,
Mark
 
Hello,
Thanks for the reply. Still trying to figure out why I am having issues uploading photos as I have moderated numbers Home Theater and 2 Channel Audio forums.

Anywho, I am thinking about replacing my old JL Audio 12W7 ProWedge with another. Here is what is looks like:
 

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