Rear seat wall speakers

[White Lincoln]

Question:
Anyone run a speaker cable through wire housing in the drivers door? I cannot get a fish hook trough it because the wire harness is so thick and no room to wiggle in a wire. I was able to run wire on the passenger side without issue.

 

[Grog6]

The only way to go thru that tube is to pull the ends of the tube out of the door and car, straighten it as much as possible. Then fish it.
I ran a 12AWG piece of zip cord thru there, it will go. Then put the tube back into the panels..



If you listen to anything with horns, woodwinds etc. a class D amp will sound bad. I don't use them; Satchmo is important to me.
My amps are class AB, and have been tweaked to remove most of the crossover distortion, staying Class A longer.
I can explain that, but long-winded engineering discussions of amp types belongs on an audio forum, lol.

(Satchmo was a horn player for Count Basie, if you don't know who that is, listen to "Sinatra st the Sands".)

 

[White Lincoln]

The only way to go thru that tube is to pull the ends of the tube out of the door and car, straighten it as much as possible. Then fish it.
I ran a 12AWG piece of zip cord thru there, it will go. Then put the tube back into the panels..



If you listen to anything with horns, woodwinds etc. a class D amp will sound bad. I don't use them; Satchmo is important to me.
My amps are class AB, and have been tweaked to remove most of the crossover distortion, staying Class A longer.
I can explain that, but long-winded engineering discussions of amp types belongs on an audio forum, lol.

(Satchmo was a horn player for Count Basie, if you don't know who that is, listen to "Sinatra st the Sands".)

Thank you Grog for offering to enlighten me on the engineering concepts for sound, but I have tinnitus, so I don't think I would notice the diff between D and A/B amps. I just notice after being in the Town Car then getting in the Cougar, the sound was just crap in the Cougar. Now I know why and am correcting it.

Thank you for the idea to actually remove the rubber tubing and work through it while out of the door and body hole.

More to come

 

[White Lincoln]

Next question:
What the heck is the plastic housing needed for since the whole in the door is a 5x7 speaker hole.

 

[Grog6]

I'm thinking it's to redirect the sound out the hole in the door panel. Or make the stockers less tinny.

 

[Irv]

Because the holes were aligned for the pre-refresh door cards and Ford's bean counters didn't want employees doing any real work.