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Well I’m guessing unorthodox in the car audio world but not in the home audio world.
I wanted to wait until I received the Bronco before passing judgement on the B&O system. Reviews from other people like trash, sounds like shit or chest pounding bass really don’t tell you much other than they must like it or dislike it. So one of the first things I did was run a FLAC copy of certain tracks of “My Disc” by Sheffield Labs. As per their description, “For critical evaluation of audio components, listening environments, and your critical listening ability”. The system actually did fairly well. But in my opinion the treble and bass were over emphasized, the treble tipped to the higher end with some “roughness”; the bass was just over done and flubby. I try to run my systems “flat” across the frequency range and let the artist/producer dictate the sound. In addition to “flat” sound I wanted the timbre of all the speakers to be close to the same.
So the experiment begin, because that’s what you do in the audiophool world……
First thing I purchased another B&O speaker from Ford and requested anybody’s B&O take off’s on this forum. So I replaced the center and rear pods with B&O speakers for the same timbre all around.
Next, I replaced the 3.9uF garbage capacitors with audio quality Solen SB capacitors on the R/L/C dash speakers.
With the dash speakers I used sound dampening on the rear of the magnets and cages. Then I used Sound Barrier Foam at the back of each enclosure and a Black Hole America type (denim) lining the enclosure. This is to mitigate the back of wave of the speakers.
On the kick panel speakers I remove the speakers and used the same materials and technique as the dash speakers. In addition I used sound dampening material on the plastic kick panels to reduce resonance frequency of them.
In the rear pods I lined the “pods” with sound dampening material and partially stuffed with acoustic material.
Last I ran a frequency test with a sound meter. I reduced the treble and bass and increase the midrange.
The systems plays beautifully. The capacitors made a big difference. The treble is taken from the higher level to a lower level emphasis with increased clarity. Roughness is gone. There is now more separation between instruments, voices, nice decay on the cymbals, ambiance of the recording environment is better revealed plus a lot of depth and separation in the sound stage. The system is revealing, so shit will sound like shit!
Oh, one more thing, the B&O speakers in the rear pods play much louder then the stock (base) speakers.
I wanted to wait until I received the Bronco before passing judgement on the B&O system. Reviews from other people like trash, sounds like shit or chest pounding bass really don’t tell you much other than they must like it or dislike it. So one of the first things I did was run a FLAC copy of certain tracks of “My Disc” by Sheffield Labs. As per their description, “For critical evaluation of audio components, listening environments, and your critical listening ability”. The system actually did fairly well. But in my opinion the treble and bass were over emphasized, the treble tipped to the higher end with some “roughness”; the bass was just over done and flubby. I try to run my systems “flat” across the frequency range and let the artist/producer dictate the sound. In addition to “flat” sound I wanted the timbre of all the speakers to be close to the same.
So the experiment begin, because that’s what you do in the audiophool world……
First thing I purchased another B&O speaker from Ford and requested anybody’s B&O take off’s on this forum. So I replaced the center and rear pods with B&O speakers for the same timbre all around.
Next, I replaced the 3.9uF garbage capacitors with audio quality Solen SB capacitors on the R/L/C dash speakers.
With the dash speakers I used sound dampening on the rear of the magnets and cages. Then I used Sound Barrier Foam at the back of each enclosure and a Black Hole America type (denim) lining the enclosure. This is to mitigate the back of wave of the speakers.
On the kick panel speakers I remove the speakers and used the same materials and technique as the dash speakers. In addition I used sound dampening material on the plastic kick panels to reduce resonance frequency of them.
In the rear pods I lined the “pods” with sound dampening material and partially stuffed with acoustic material.
Last I ran a frequency test with a sound meter. I reduced the treble and bass and increase the midrange.
The systems plays beautifully. The capacitors made a big difference. The treble is taken from the higher level to a lower level emphasis with increased clarity. Roughness is gone. There is now more separation between instruments, voices, nice decay on the cymbals, ambiance of the recording environment is better revealed plus a lot of depth and separation in the sound stage. The system is revealing, so shit will sound like shit!
Oh, one more thing, the B&O speakers in the rear pods play much louder then the stock (base) speakers.
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