[TWDJ]

WOW ... that is a great write-up! And don't apologize for plugging your employer. I work for Apple and don't miss many opportunities, either. I will get some pics taken and uploaded after the weather clears up.

You make a great point about speaker placement being critical. With the in-dash locations the driver hears the driver side speaker well, the passenger hears the passenger speaker well and the opposite channel not so well. That is the reason I wired the Sky-Pod in reverse so you get full channel signals to each seat. I liken it to headphones, but some may disagree. The relative distance to each person's ears are pretty close and the difference in height just gives it a little more depth. Not a lot of bass, but when running no top (which is as often as possible) it sounds just fine.

The reason I opted for the Sky-Pod had a lot of factors. Mounting on the floor just under the doors got in my wife's way getting when in. She is vertically challenged and, health-wise, a little unsteady so I wanted to put no more obstacles in her way. And even though I rarely have passengers, the back seat usually stays in and is just rolled forward which got in the way of the speakers placed between wheelwell and roolbar. Believe me when I say all options were given much consideration ... except for a soundbar. That never really appealed to me much and I'm not sure why.

And using the aux input for CB ... why didn't I think of that? Installing a CB is my next project and I was trying to place an auxiliary speaker. jfrabat, you're a genius!