What have you done to your truck today?

[Old Fart]

Spent the day putting in my audio system in the Ram. Put a lot of time running the cables to the amp in the rear only to find out that the wires going to the doors are in a connector with no room to pass the speaker wire...great for removing the door, not so great for audio. I'll have to figure plan B. Sorry for the bad pic...

[tulowd]

Spent the day putting in my audio system in the Ram. Put a lot of time running the cables to the amp in the rear only to find out that the wires going to the doors are in a connector with no room to pass the speaker wire...great for removing the door, not so great for audio. I'll have to figure plan B. Sorry for the bad pic...

Mike: I'm in the middle of doing my sound system in the F150. Using all factory speaker harnesses and connectors; bought three sets from Metra on Amazon. Nothing wrong with OEM wiring to speakers, they use decent insulators and are fine for anything short of a competition system.
I just replaced 4 OEM Sony door speakers, with M+M front components woofers and a two way JBLs in the rear; along with a bunch of door Dynamat.
Next up:a set of high end Pioneer Ti tweeters into the A pillars, then a center channel replacement.

Later (maybe today!) I'll pull out the console and cut 40 wires to interrupt the 7 channel 700W Sony amp output and wire in a Cervin Vega electronic line level adaptor/ pre amp summing device - gets rid of all the digital garbage built in and sends a simple 2 channel signal into my yet-to-be-designed processor and multiple amplifier setup. Under $200 but not for the faint of heart for installing. The better way is the Rockford or JL Audio pre amp setups, but they are about $1500 for essentially the same thing.

When changing speakers, it is worthwhile to play with the phasing and sometimes the crossover points - many factory wiring setups are not tuned properly and can be improved in terms of imaging, bass response and various other characteristics; especially with more than 4 speakers.