I keep reading the term "Audiophile" and I am not sure what it means? I am also looking for info on if I can take out the single cd player out and put in the 6cd player with no problems. Also does the 6cd player has a built in amp for the door speakers or do they have an external amp for the door speakers.

 

The audiophile system has amps built on the rear of the radio. It also has a subwoofer, a component set as well.

Lastly, keep in mind the deck itself has other features, such as DSP, and auto sound leveling.

 

I believe Ford uses the term Audiophile for its "premium grade" factory audio systems. It consist of a 6 cd changer ( some with mp3 capability) that has 3 plug ins in the back of the unit instead of the basic 2 plug ins. The extra plug in is for a sub/amp that comes as part of the audiophile system. There are also 2 extra tweeters in the doors in front of the door handles that are not present on the non-audiophile systems.(just blank holes)

Ford also sells trucks that have one of the 2 "regular grade" audio systems. This will be either the single cd head unit or the 6 cd changer head unit. I do not believe the regular head units have a built in amp.

I have the single cd head unit and am in the market for the "regular grade" 6 cd changer even though my Lariat is prewired for the audiophile system.

I have heard that if you replace the single or 6 cd regular with a audiophile head unit and dont have the sub/amp that goes with the audiophile unit that the bass is not right. I do not know this from experience.

To my understanding, the model # for the single cd unit is 4L3T-18C869-GD or GE

The model # for the "regular" 6 cd changer is 4L3T-18C815-AM

I do not know the model # for the 6 cd changer audiophile unit.

Hope this helps,

Mike

 

Yes this helps, thanks

 

Don't forget that the 05 audiophile comes with MP3 capability

 

Contrary to Ford literature - my 05 Audiophile does NOT play MP3s - and I have not heard of anyone else who's does either -

Kirk

 

My '05 Audiophile does *NOT* play MP3 discs either. I tried creating them on 3 different computers and it doesn't read them. If I recall it says "CD-ROM" on the display or something like that and then spits the CD back out. All the discs I've created will play on my discman, so I know that I created them correctly. I really wished this worked and I could have like 200 songs per disc.... with my changer I could have 6x200=1200 songs available at the touch of my finger.. WOW that would rock!

Shoot, my old kenwood sirius unit that costs me less than $99 does all of that... you would think my ford "top of the line" audiophile system could do it.

One thing I thought it would do as well is if I put an original (new purchased cd) CD in the player it would read the "text" encoding and tell me what song/disc is playing on the display... my old kenwood did this as well. Pretty nifty feature. This could all be added with a firmware update I would think.

 

Sorry to hear you guys headunits don't play the MP3 CDs. I know that some of them will because I brought a MP3 with me when I went on a test drive and it worked fine. I wasn't as impressed with it as the Kenwood I have in my stang, but from the factory it wasn't bad. Just took a bit long to load a song. IMHO I would just get the standard HU and use the money saved to get a good aftermarket setup.

 

It's my understanding that some trucks will play the .MP3s.... just not trucks with the audiophile system.

I'll have to check my build sheet when I get home and see if it says MP3 on it. If it does, and ford makes one for the audiophile, I'm going to the dealer to get what I paid for

 

 

FX4Play,
You sound pretty knowledgable on sound systems. I also have the 6 cd changer HU (non-audiophile). I'm wanting to keep my HU, and upgrade speakers, and possibly an amp. Or should I look into someone selling thier audiophile system? All I really want is just a nice clean sound. Any advise would be great.

axe124

 

Look in the audio section of this forum. A lot of us have been through all of this and it's dicussed there.

 

I'll second that advice. I would like to think I know a decent amount about the audio in a new F150, but there are many on this board that know tons more than I. Search the 04-05 section and audio and you should find all the info you need.

 

Isn't this kind of false advertising? I mean I purchased this with MP3 compatibility, yet it offers no MP3 compatibility.

I guess I could claim it is "broken" and doesn't do what it says. This way they could replace it with the newer model that apparently works.

 

about a month ago Ford started to put audiophile mp3's in all there trucks.I dont know about other plants,but at Norfolk all audiophiles say mp3 just under the disc slot.