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To get back to the original question on what to do for rear spks, I too would say leave them stock and only use them as needed. Spend all your money on the front speakers. If you were to listen to a high end home stereo or even a live performance in a good room, you will hear some of the music as it reflects off the back wall, giving you a sense of the size of the room you are in. Now if you play that same music in your truck the interior material will absorb most of the music before it can reflect back to you. Adding rear speakers can give you some of that effect, but can easily destroy the front sound stage while doing so. The amount of sound, or volume needed from the rears to create that is so little, it makes no sense to spend more money on new speakers, the stocks can handle that with ease. Another situation where rear speakers come into importance is when you have rear passengers and you want to entertain them, again the stock speakers are quite capable with that as well, since you probably wouldn't have the volume up to concert levels. If your passengers demand more sound quality than that then they can take there own car and you can sit in the back and bitch about their crappy radio. As far as playing music for the kids in the back how good can you possibly make barney sound?!? (and why would you want to). As far as 5.1 rear speakers, if you where that far into building that kind of system, this wouldn't be one of the questions you would be asking.

and Tford I would strongly suggest bridging that 4 channel to the front speakers and let the radio play the rears, you would be amazed at how much better it would sound.

 

Interesting concept, Nothing, and I guess it will be easy enough to set up and test. Do you care to explain the technical aspect of how this would be better than amping all 4 speakers and just keeping it faded mostly to the front? Remember, I'll have a separate amp for the sub and the door speaks will only be doing the mid-bass and up. I don't think I'm going to be starved for power. Thanks.

 

By running the power to all 4 channels then fading it to the front simply just wastes the power going to the rear. If you apply that extra power to the fronts, it will give the amp more ability to drive the fronts, making them sound even "sharper" than before. Its real easy to try even if you just simply hook up the fronts and leave the rears disconnected for the test it will still give you a good idea of what to expect.