not in my car anyway mate no. my system goes louder than i can tolerate lol!!!! which is saying somethin as I've been front and centre for metallica gigs!!!! mine goes so loud it has a self protect mode lol! there's no way my front components would put out enough treble for me to hear anything above the sub. in sayin that however, i have my sub turned right down, the bass not too biased, i have the loudness turned off, and i have the head unit on a rock setting, NOT the Xplod setting. before i did this the sub was making the car shake like hell when i went for loud volumes, but with it all turned down a bit, i can crank the volume up a fair whack to hear all the guitar parts, and there is enough bass to make the person beside me look at me funny! so i get to hear it all without the bass shakin the car to bits! Phil.