Full Range to rear speakers

[Beachin 74]

Do we realize how totally unacceptable it is that Ford gives you rear speakers but deliberately cripples them so they don't work like the front ones? Why are we putting up with this? Does any other car maker do this? Would we let them get away with it?

I know, this is pretty lame.
My wife and I are not big audio folks as we have been happy with the base radios that come in the Ford vehicles that we purchased over the last few decades but that was one of the first thing we noticed was the crappy rear speaker performance which is what brought me to this thread.
My wife who doesn't even listen to music, she listens to books and noticed it right away.
How about a fix for this @fordmotorcompany?

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[Ig_bronco]

genious...Thank you! Now I can get my wife to stop bitching.

you'll never get them to stop

 

[RoLyMa27]

But the foot panel speakers suck balls. With the adjustments i did on the ACM, the bass sounds terrible, around half maybe less of the volume level cranked

So, are you saying after you changed the settings in Forscan the kick panel speakers sound worse or they just suck in general????

 

[Patriotic]

^^ I'm voting with my hard earned money. I canceled my order and requested refund of my deposit, not because of this but because of the delay from a February 13 to late May ETA. I'm done with Ford.

 

[JediMcMuffin]

Umm, what happened to D2dhanover?

 

[Roll Sound]

Umm, what happened to D2dhanover?

MIA AFAIK.

 

[Bronconewby]

So, are you saying after you changed the settings in Forscan the kick panel speakers sound worse or they just suck in general????

The speakers suck in general, but it is receiving more bass with the mod( sounds better ). The unit is putting out more power than the speaker can handle. But if you are not a big audio person it will sound pretty decent.

 

[604Bronco]

Umm, what happened to D2dhanover?

 

[Roll Sound]

A very unfortunate absence.

 

[Broncola]

Which forscan changes did you make?

Updating you guys, as my buddy finished my audio install last night.

The Forscan update to give full range to the rear speakers, does in fact, give full range. Also increases volume quite a bit (went from listening on 17~ down to like 12~ after the change).

He brought the oscilator over to verify signal to the rear speakers before pulling the signal for my amp from them and they're definitely giving a full range.

 

[JediMcMuffin]

Which forscan changes did you make?

Yeah please clarify, D2dhanover's initial suggest was to change the value from 3801 to 3800, but other folks have referenced changing it to 382B

 

[RoLyMa27]

The speakers suck in general, but it is receiving more bass with the mod( sounds better ). The unit is putting out more power than the speaker can handle. But if you are not a big audio person it will sound pretty decent.

Ok, that makes sense. They even have the kick panel speakers filtered as well! So the Forscan mod makes all 6 channels full range!

 

[WuNgUn]

Yeah please clarify, D2dhanover's initial suggest was to change the value from 3801 to 3800, but other folks have referenced changing it to 382B

You're thinking of line 2 mod that was discussed earlier which did duck all for me.
This 382B is for the first line. Go back a page and look at the screenshot

 

[kput]

Which forscan changes did you make?

 

[Broncola]

Nice I got the the s40s too! Just the dash for now. Trying to decide if I’m gonna get a forscan adapter. Do have bass blockers for your dash speakers? If you don’t, the dash and kicks are competing to drive bass off the same output. Might be part of the problem.

I did mess with the line 2 settings and it went all haywire.. moved it back to factory. Then i found that link with all the ACM codes. I stuck with line 1 only.. this seems to do most of your speaker modifications. If you break it down i get what its doing but it gets complicated if you dont understand it. Shitty way to pass it on the consumers though.

6 speaker standard sound system

I just got my Bronco last week, so i have orders waiting for delivery for the speaker mods. I did however receive my apline s40's. I did swap front and rear. It does sound better. But the foot panel speakers suck balls. With the adjustments i did on the ACM, the bass sounds terrible, around half maybe less of the volume level cranked. i aint no audiophile but its seems half way decent below 15 volume level. maybe. Lol.. after that music with good amount of bass starts to get distorted.

Waiting on some component speakers for the kick panel. So ill keep you guys posted once i swap those. But i will most likely add a subwoofer somewhere.

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