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Finally got a chance to actually drive the Jeep with the new stereo. Holy cow what an improvement!

It was a short jaunt, as I had to transfer the kids back to their mom this morning.

On the way over there, I heard background vocals on The Raconteurs' Steady As She Goes that I'd never heard before. I was worried that as it was streaming (SiriusXM app) that the limited quality of the source would limit the value of the stereo components, but it was great.

After dropping them off, I threw in a CD of Dr Dre's 2001 album, and turned it up a little more. Though the sub is only 8", it's plenty when you push a couple hundred watts through it. More bass than that would be unbalanced for my taste.

It's still not fully tuned, as I haven't had time, so I just set the gains to midpoint and crossover to the specified frequency range of the sub. Probably need to play around with the radio's EQ as well as I think the treble is a little too high. But man, I forgot what it was like to have a GOOD system.

I think some folks confuse noise level and booming base with a good sound system.  I can hear it as they drive past at times.  (I'm not referring to anyone discussing this here.)   

The wife's Caddy came with some kind of upgraded sound system, I would have been fine with the base, and that car was fairly quiet at speed.

• It's customary to drive amplifiers with line-level outputs instead of amplified speaker outputs. But because they cheaped out and used the stock head unit, their system drives the amplifier with speaker-level outputs. This ends up amplifying noise. 
• Replacing the head unit but not the amp ends up losing out on all fade control, because they control the fade in the amplifier using the CAN bus from the radio, not using the actual speaker outputs. 
• It's normal when you have main speakers and tweeters (component speakers) to drive them together with one channel and then use a crossover between the two. Instead, they gave each tweeter its own channel. That's just one reason the stock amplifier is an 8-channel amp unnecessarily. 
• They didn't even put highpass filters on the amplifier channels going to the tweeters, instead using an RC circuit at the tweeter itself with a RIDICULOUS filtering frequency. As such, the stock "Premium" system has tweeters in pillars on the dash that you can't even hear. One of the first things I did was change a capacitor on each tweeter to reduce the frequency at which the highpass allows signal. This in itself was a huge improvement and I could hear the tweeters after that.
• Everything in the amplifier is 2 ohm outputs, while the most common aftermarket speakers are 4 ohm speakers. And of course the stock speakers for the base system are 4 ohm, and the aftermarket speakers Mopar recommends are 4 ohm, without mentioning that the premium amp is 2 ohm.
• They allot another 2 channels for the subwoofer. Which is good, in the sense that they are at least doubling output to 90W instead of 45W. But that's still underpowered for a sub. But a better-designed amp that had a mono channel for the sub might have been a better idea.