Hi All, I have a 6-cd player in my Fx4. I thought it was a Audiophile unit? I am not sure any more. How can I tell if it is? Thanks.........

 

I believe that the Audiophile unit has the subwoofer under the rear seat.

 

The radio has 3 plug holes in the rear not 2 if it's Audiophile.

 

Do I need to disassemble the HU to determine this? Thanks...........

 

Look under the left rear seat if you have audiophile there will be a black box taking up all the room under the left rear seat the sub and amp are in that box.

 

Thanks I will look under there tonight.....

 

Like I thought, I have tools under the passenger rear. And nothing under the driver rear either. Oh well, is it possible that I have the 3rd plug on the rear of the HU? If not, which it looks like. Will it take much to wire this unit up with a subwoofer and amp? Thanks..........

 

I opened mine up (non-audiophile)--check this thread...
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=205014

 

It doesn't take much to hook the factory stereo up to a subwoofer/amp. I installed a powered subwoofer in my FX4 yesterday in about 2 hours. Most amps have "speaker level" inputs. You just tap off of the front speaker wires. I have the non-audiophile 6-disc CD/MP3.

In my case, I built a new cable to interface between the stereo head unit, the truck wiring harness and the amp's wiring harness. You can buy a harness that connects to the stereo head unit and another harness that will connect to the truck's wiring harness. Both were at Wal-Mart for about $7 each (Metra 70-5520 & 71-5520). I connected the two harnesses directly except for the front speakers, battery input and switched input. These I attached 16-14 guage bullet pins. The amp's cable was designed to be spliced into a harness using bullet pins. It was just plug-n-play.

If you don't mind cutting into the truck's wiring harness, there was plenty of slack to splice in the amp's cable without buying any adapters.

 

Thanks worland, this will be usefull info shortly...

 

I think only Audiophile units support RDS. If you push and hold the menu button for 3 to 5 seconds, another menu pops up for song titles and stuff.

 

well I have the single disc player in my XLT and it supports RDS and speed sensitive volume but i am pretty sure that its not Audiophile...