It sounds okay in mine. I just cant stand the rattle in the driver side door.

 

To me it sounds fine and I actually kind of like it. Only thing that pisses me off is the rattle all over the car.

I have been driving my mother loaded honda pilot while my cars in the body shop. You want to hear a ****ty sound system go drive one of those!!!

 

Maybe the new ones are better. Hell anythings better than that CD eating battery draining turd that came in my '06.

 

Its the best system I have ever had, but that isn't really saying much considering it is only beating out the factory system from my 73 mustang and the 1 speaker wonder from my 02 T/A...

 

Think I will check out crutchfield for some speakers...... Anyone switch to 1000 yet?

 

I replaced the 6x8 front and rears with Kicker DS68's this weekend. In my opinion, it does sound alot cleaner but it is still sub par for a so called premium sound system. I ordered the speakers from Crutchfield. It was so much easier than I thought it would be. The only tool you really need to make the job easy is the plastic fastener tool. There are 6 of those clips in the rear that need to be removed.

Our other vehicle is a Cadillac SRX Performance. The premium Bose system in it is 100 times better than the Shaker 500.

 

I am bidding on some used speakers on ebay now ..... Yes, my wife’s 08 Tahoe with the mac daddy Bose is awesome. Her previous vehicle; Nissan titan with the 8 piece Fosgate system was the best factory radio I've ever heard.

 

I agree the Shaker 500 isn't very good. I'd say it's one of the worst components in my otherwise amazing car. That said I'm not a huge car-audiophile so I can live with it. Just like Danman0469 I love listening to the music coming from under my hood as well.

 

In my opinion Ford has dropped the ball in the audio section ever since inception. Main reason I didn't go with the premium option on the Mustang. I'm hoping I can get a good enough signal from the factory HU to get some decent sounds out of all the new audio stuff I'm putting in. I don't know what backwoods sound engineer has set these up but they SUCK. Always have. Even the nearly $4K "top notch" sony system in my truck blows. Or at least it did.

I have 2 12's and 4 infinity 6x8's coaxials waiting to go in. Just waiting on a weekend I don't have 100 things going on to get it all done. I barely ever have the radio on now cause it sucks so bad. But it is the base system (not that it's an excuse for poor quality).

 

I feel like people have come to expect a lot out of a V8 sports car in the high 20s, low 30s for price.

You get what you pay for...simple as that. I don't go into a ford dealer, buy a mustang GT, and expect to walk out with a BMW M3 lol.