I am running Focal Utopia 165W components. The 6.5" in the door with a little modding: speaker not in door yet here:
tweeter in door:
JL 500/1 and 300/4 amp with JL Stealthbox
About the system: Put a new Yellow top Optima battery. 0 gauge power wire by JL Audio. The plan was to put 5.25 Focal Utopia component set in dash. It would take a little cutting but was not going to be a big deal. Got the 5.25" out and one had something sitting on top of it and would not fire
Tried JL 5.25" coaxial that I was going to put in the back door and it sounded terrible. More like a Jensen speaker that I would have used back in high school. So ended up putting the extra tweeter in the dash until I can get another 5.25". So I have the treble turned WAY down because it is too bright. The JL 5.25" ended up in the back doors. Don't sound too bad back away from the front focals. I have the fader almost 3/4 way to the front so I really dont have much coming out of them. Used dynamat extreme on the doors. I am really impressed with how solid the doors are. One of the most difficult things that was done was run the speaker wire to the door speakers. Trying to fish the new wire through the factory "speaker wire caseing" was a pain. Not sure what to call it. But finally with a little cutting all new speaker wire is run...Ran the power wire on one side of the truck and rca cable on the other. Everything was hidden as best as possible. Here is a picture showing some of the wires run under the carpet.
The sound quaility is good. Not great. I am a perfectionist so we have to do some tweaking. Not sure what yet but something. Suggestions?
A couple more thoughts...
I bought every adapter that the Kenwood supported. Bluetooth, Ipod adapter, TV tuner, USB input.
The bluetooth is nice. Handsfree while driving. Still have not figured out how to download my telephone phonebook from my Motorola Kzr.
Ipod is nice because I have almost 100 gb worth of music. So I don't have to carry all the cds...The Kenwood deck control everything on the ipod. I love the touch screen.
The TV tuner and antenna sucks. The antenna won't pick up my local tv stations. There has to be something that can be changed to pick up the local channels better.
Still haven't used the usb input.
The gps part of the unit is garmin based and I am still trying to figure it out.
Bart
) so I did not have half circle holes where the stock head unit controls were. Did that answer your question?
