MY Bad! I neglected to mention that the placement of the speakers the way they are in the doors doesn't help. Makes me wish my ears were near my knees.
IE: I lazyboned it over to the ATM one day(left Contour running, door wide open) and noticed something: I could hear everything Imus in the morning was saying, this being off a busy street with traffic zooming by, and he's on AM with NO treble, and the car is 40 feet from me in the lot. Those speakers ARE loud - but where they are firing at (your boots and the footwells) doesn't help!
So I guess the extra watts of a new HU are the solution. Thx!
-Chris
"this 71K mile Connie still feels like 7K!"