Road/Engine Noise

[Wood. 24]

Alright so Im gonna sound like a total fuckin newb but whatever. Kinda getting back into putting a stereo back into my truck, so i ordered some focal access 165 and a sundown sax125.2 for my front doors of my regular cab chebby p/u.

My question is how do you guys like to run the wires for your front stage, in my past experiences hooking up a/b amps i have almost always ran into some kind of signal noise, ive tried running ground loops from deck to amp to battery, keeping the RCAs on the complete other side of the vehicle than the power and ground... seems like it never fixes it.

so what im getting at is, what do you guys do? if anything? was i just using shitty RCA's and need to use better ones? if so what are some good brands? just wanna do this right, ive always been afraid to amp my mid/highs cuz im afraid ill just get noise.

any help would be nice...

[Impious 1,476]

9 out of 10 times it's a ground issue, either with the amplifier or the HU.

[///M5 2,833]

Stock stereo grounds are usually crap. I always pull a fresh one. As Impious said, it's almost always a ground issue so make them all your own.