Sorry I missed the reply. It sounds pretty good. I'm not using the remote sub control, so each way to work I adjust 1-2 things only, then listen and readjust. After about a week I got it dialed in pretty good. I haven't driven the truck in a few days now, but I'm very happy. I have the crossover set to just a hair to the right of the center up line. I originally had it further to the right (120 hz?), but it was too boomy for me. I have the bass boost just a hair over the first line to the left. Just enough to give a little extra oomph. The gain I have set to between the 2-3 line to the left. I may lower it a hair still.
Now that I converted the Ram over to Pioneer 3 ways in all the doors & Kicker speakers in the dash with the 4 ohm 10 watt resistor soldered on them & the Kicker under seat sub, I think my Ram sounds much better. I was just telling the wife this last night. The Kicker isn't going to pound the snot out of me like when I was a kid with big systems, as everyone says as well. But it is pretty nice. It does give a little bit of punch to the seats when the right frequency down low hits. I wish it was just a hair more punch, but then I'd have to put a different sub in under the back seat and possibly lose my fold flat floor, or eff around a lot to get it all to fit. Plus I'd be spending more cash than I want right now. Wife has been pretty good about letting spend some money on the speakers as well as few other things done to the truck.
So for the last few days I have been driving our 2019 Jeep Cherokee that has the 8.4 4C and the 9 speaker premium system. Now originally I thought it was pretty decent for an upgraded system & my Ram with the stock 6 speaker system with stock speakers sucked; which the Ram did lol. Since switching the Ram over to upgraded speakers, I like the Ram better now. Especially for the bass. The Jeep has what I thought too much high pitched sound to it now that I didn't notice before (I do like my highs to be stronger than most people probably like). I adjusted the equalizer on the Jeep and that made it worse. If the wife will allow, maybe in the spring, I will see if Mopar has a factory Kicker upgraded 8" sub or fit one in to the Jeeps enclosure. Possibly a different amp. We'll see how ambitious I really am & the cash flow. Since I'm the only one with an income while the wife works, it's not as easy to spend. Once college is done and I put her to work....
On a side note, here's a quick list of the vehicles I most recently had with stock premium systems in them and what I thought (this is at the time BTW lol). There really wasn't much if any for stock premium audio that I had before this time, which both GM cars were just a Bose amp with special equalizer settings like many of the cars from the 90's and earlier.
1998 Buick Regal GS with 4 speaker premium system. Sounded decent, but not great.
2002 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP with 4 speaker premium system. Sounded decent, but not great. Same speakers as the Buick. The car later got a custom fiberglass 10" sub and 6 speakers added. Sounded great. My buddy now owns the car & puts his baby in it lol.
2004 Saturn Vue Redline with 7 speaker premium system. sucked balz, soon as wife started driving our Nitro we bought 3 months later & I was stuck with it, I **** canned all the speakers & added 2nd cheapy amp for sub only. Changed out sub for a cheapy on Amazon as well. Made it tolerable, but not great.
2007 Dodge Nitro R/T with 9 speaker premium system. Sounded pretty decent. Was pretty happy with it. Though, I always contemplated just changing out the speakers for factory upgraded Kickers. Sold the SUV to my brother, so I still ride in it once in a while.
2017 Harley Davidson CVO Street Glide with 4 speaker dual amp premium system (currently have). Sounds better than my Saturn ever did, but not much for bass. Open air drivers seat, go figure right? lol.
2019 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk with 9 speaker premium system (currently have). The SUV as of last May. Best factory system we've had so far. The sub won't give me that little bit of punch that I like down low, but at least fills the bottom end of sound enough to be pleasing.
2015 Ram Sport with 6 speaker stock system. Pretty crappy to me. I'd put it better than my two GM cars stock systems & maybe even better than my Saturn Vue after I swapped speakers even, but that's it. Just changing the 6 speakers out and adding a compact under seat subwoofer made it pretty damn nice!
I always have loved a nice loud system, even as a kid through my late 20's. But as I get older (in my 40's now), I want it to be clean accurate sound that's just a bit louder than normal. Enough to make me feel a little youthful, but not embarrassingly so. Just enough bass to really feel it punch a bit.
