Huge respect for this and a great post, you must be very skilled and experienced to even think of this approach.
I agree that the standard speakers sound quality is disappointing and below expectations, but this upgrade is beyond most peoples capabilities. Could you recommend some simple speaker replacements to improve matters?
Thanks, I’ve learnt a few things from this… mostly, I’ve learnt I’m too old for this! Having kids massively reduces the ability to lock yourself away for a long weekend and smash it out. When I last did an install, I was driving loads, long distance runs and I was heavily in to music. These days I’m hardly driving anywhere and mostly listen to Radio 2. Hopefully popmaster sounds epic…
That said, when I get a bee in the bonnet. I get stuck in, and when I have a vision, it’s often hard to persuade me otherwise. If nothing else, I fancied a challenge. Folks built pub-sheds in lockdown, I’ve installed some new speakers in my brand new car 😂
Would I do it again? Probably.
Would I recommend it? Probably not.
In terms of improvements with the least amount of grief…. to be honest, replacing the stock speakers with anything ‘updated’ would be noticeable! Much like an aftermarket Headunit can vastly improve ‘naff stock speakers’… the B&O setup can be improved by replacing ‘naff stock speakers’ with something a bit better… I was impressed with how things sounded running off the stock amp… a bit of deadening material and decent speakers seemingly go a long way. A proper DSP with time alignment would also help hugely, the Beosonic EQ helps a little, but it’s not great!
Equally, breaking out the old sub and installing an aftermarket would help.
I went deep end and beyond. I don’t think you need to really!
