Finally getting around to replacing my front door speakers, going with infinity kappa 6.5's.
While demo'ing speakers at the local fry's, I liked the 6.5" kappa's better than anything else. I couldn't find a sales person to check, but I don't think they amp the demo speakers at the display I was checking them out at, they had seperate screening rooms for amped setups where you could select the amp/speakers/sub/sub amp, this was just a wall of speakers for each size tied to a crappy radio.
anyways, if they don't sound as good as I heard in the store I'm thinking of getting a small amp - I don't really have anywhere to mount a massive 4 channel amp in the truck.
My rear speakers I replaced a long time ago with phoenix gold 5x7 shallow mounts, they're OK but I may replace them with infinity reference or kappa 6x8's if I were to install an amp for the door speakers.
I found the alpine 'power pack', which offers 45x4 rms and is quite small -
http://www.amazon.com/Alpine-KTP-445.../dp/B003VVYL46
Also the clarion version of what looks like the same thing 50x4 rms -
Amazon.com: Clarion Mobile Electronics XC1410 D-Class 4-Channel Amplifier: Car Electronics
and the RF PBR300x4, which offers 75x4 rms
http://www.amazon.com/Rockford-Fosga...words=pbr300x4
I think I can fit any of these up front, if not inside the dash than certainly under the front center console.
Any thoughts? I've found a lot of people using the alpine for later model f150's than ours and they all have really good things to say.