2021 ram 1500 6 speaker upgrade

[Firearmjunky22]

Hello all, my 2021 ram 1500 bighorn has blown the driver door speaker. It was distorted for a bit then finally stopped working all together. I did some research on replacing the door speakers and the dash speakers. I believe I have settled on infinity replacements for all 6, not looking for any crazy improvement wise but just figured if I had to replace one I’d replace all 6 with something that might be better. I have factory ANC according to Crutchfield (small microphone in rear headliner) and would like to retain that and I’m having trouble finding the correct harness I need for the door speakers. Metra has 2 the 72-6514 and 72-6515. I believe I would need the 6515 for my 2021 but can’t find any specific statement for that. It seems as if 6514 is for 2019’s and maybe some 2020’s and then ram changed the speaker polarity? Worst case I could just repin if I bought the wrong harness but want to know for sure. Crutchfield is trying to sell me the 6514 but I don’t believe that’s the correct one to keep the ANC happy. Any help is appreciated

 

[rotwiler]

My 2021 DT Bighorn Base 6 speaker uses 6514, was built Dec 2020. Infinity or JBL in rear sound good, both are about same or are(same company) just get ones in lowest ohm like 2.3. I have jbl 3 way GX series. Front, I had infinity 3.5s in for a week, wasn't liking them, in previous Ram with alpine I had, I loved them, not in this base audio Ram though, the highs are overwhelming to me. I have a week old set sitting in my garage. I ended up putting a kenwood component set in front that has 6x9 and 3.5s in set, both speakers have own crossover and 4ohm. Is better, but cost around $200 for set, fit is just like stock, zero mods needed. After you have seperate lower frequency in door and highs only in dash. If you think about it, a set of 3.5s is around $60 and a 6x9 would be around $90+ is not that much more and will last longer than the paper speaker in door. I bypassed anc also with $10 harness and honestly, I don't notice any difference in noise, truck is still really quiet. If you have ANC you will have 2 mics above driver head and passenger and i think 1 in rear. I tested jbl gx 3.5s in my old Ram and infinity 3.5s I could not tell difference. Be aware the stock 3.5 is 8ohm, if you just put that infinity 3.5 in with stock front door speakers, the ohms will be like 1.5 since front speakers run in parellel and can overheat amp(need to add around 4ohm resistors to balance them and bring ohms up) I seen others add a bass blocker to the 3.5s, i tried it and removed a lot of sound quality, the built in crossover is fine on the jbl and infinity 3.5s if your set on them , amp in radio, is stable to around 2ohm. If 4ohm 3.5 and 4ohm 6x9 in parellel = 2ohm, so the kenwoods work well. I disconnected my dsp amp while trying to figure out a radio static issue and have the anc bypass only plugged in. Today had the hiss, but went away after a bit, the jbl kenwood combo suprised me how good it sounded without any amp, even on rap the bass hit really good, simular to my 13 Ram with Alpine system.