POD speakers

[Dave U]

Bought some MTI pods with Kicker Km65 speakers. Not real happy with sound quality . I put Killmat inside and filled with poly. Speakers sound hollow and canny sounding.
Before I buy better speakers like morel tempo to match kick panel, was wondering if good sound was even possible in the pods, not much air volume

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[Brian_B]

Great sound - no, not really. It's mostly just meant as fill-in. The heavy lifting is done by the dashboard speakers.

That said, they shouldn't sound like crap though. Are you running an external amp or still on stock amp and just replaced the speakers? Have you done any Forscan mods for the audio? B&O or standard 7-channel?

 

[Dave U]

Running 5 channel amp with plug and play harness. I’ve adjusted the kick panel speaker to the of clipping on amp. Tried HPF filter and tried no filter .
Read online that the head unit could be equalizing the channel to protect crappy factory speakers. Rear pods are a lot more pronounced then front. Tried fader and no help

 

[Dave U]

The pods are loud , just not the quality of the morels. Actually pods are drowning out kicks , not getting a lot of volume from kicks, they’re running 100 rms also

 

[Brian_B]

Yeah you are probably getting screwed by the Factory equalizer.

If you have the standard 7-channel, there is a Forscan setting to disable it, which may help you some. Check out this page:
https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/thre...k-sport-mode-chimes-seatbelts-and-more.28489/

You probably want the Equalizer OFF (727-01-02 = xx00-xxxx-xxxx), and for the speaker setting (727-01-01) set for xx2B-2Axx-xxxx

If you have B&O... no such luck. Only way around it is a A2B amplifier.

Kickpanels take a ~ton~ of power if you want to get anything meaningful out of them. They are just in a really bad spot. Most folks really only try to tune them to round out the missing bass from the dashboard 4" speakers. And it's hard to tune the dashboard speakers so they don't hit you with glaringly bright sound reflected directly off the windshield.

One thing that can really help is divorcing the dashboard from the kickpanel. In the factory wiring, they are run in parallel on the front channel. Put the Dash on Channel A, the Kicks on Channel B, leave your sub on the 5th sub channel, and run the rear pods from the factory rear channel. You lose some flexibility, but you still ~should~ have fader control from the factory head unit to help balance front/rear out.

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