Tell me more about the rear deck speaker upgrade? I recently installed a JL sub-woofer and noticed that the B&O rear deck speakers sound like they've got a blanket over them. Did your upgrade bring them to life or are those channels limited by the amp and frequency cut-offs? I think that the B&O is balanced for bass frequencies in the rear and mids/highs up front and I don't want to waste time upgrading speakers if the amp is the problem. Thanks!
The deck speakers on my car were blown on one side. And my sub woofer is powered by the oem amp. If you already replaced the deck speakers and did nothing else and feel a loss of volume check polarity at the speakers. If your out of phase the will cancel each other out soundwise. The rear panel carpet doesn't help much either eventually plan on putting the grills and cutting clean holes for the sound to come out more.
Got ya. My deck speakers are original and have no problems. I very well may have got the replacement sub (driven by the stock amp) out of phase, which would explain things. I'll check it out before replacing them. I also like your idea of cutting the deck material and installing grilles. Thanks!
Not yet. Was thinking of doing a spray liner first. I did see around that i should. Ive been at this install for a few weeks. A pair a speakers at a time. I just compiled everything now .
Yep!
You have to add stuffing. You won’t regret it.
Will do. I will stuff it. Giggty
They have very little power and they are choked off by the rear deck cover. Replacing them alone won’t help much, you’ll want to drive them with more power than stock and do something to clear the path for the sound to travel. Here’s what I did.
This looks great! Will you explain what you did here and how? Very cleanThey have very little power and they are choked off by the rear deck cover. Replacing them alone won’t help much, you’ll want to drive them with more power than stock and do something to clear the path for the sound to travel. Here’s what I did.
The underside of the panel is a rigid fiberboard that already has the holes cut out. The carpet attached to the top doesn’t. The holes are 5/16” diameter so I took a 5/16 leather punch and a hammer and removed the carpeting from the holes over the speaker. There are more areas you can punch out but these were uniform over the speaker so I only removed the carpeting from those specifics holes.