Help with Focal 165V1

[Brewmaster 10+ year member]

I just replaced a Boston Acoustic RX67 with Focal 165 V1 in the left door of my F350 pickup. Before I put the door panel back on I turned on the stereo to make sure everything was playing and I noticed the speaker distorted much easier than my old RX67 speaker. Now there is a lot of opening in the door so I put the door panel back on to help seal it off a little bit and make it more like the other door and that helped but it's still not that good and honestly I don't hear that much difference between the Focal in the left door and the Boston in the right door. I just kind of thought there would be more of a difference in the sound. I listened to the Focals at a stereo shop and they sounded really nice there.

I'm wondering are these Focals more critical about sound deadening than my Bostons were and therefore I'm going to have to sound deaden my door? I was thinking about doing that anyway but I'm just concerned about the sound of these. The wiring is all double checked and fine. Should I try and section off part of my door and make a smaller chamber there the door is pretty big although it's the same size it was for my 40 watt Bostons? Like I said it does make a difference putting the door panel on and I didn't listen to my Bostons with the door panel off so I don't know what they sounded like that way.

All the setting are the same as always. I did go and back off the gains a little but you can only back off so far.

I just had much higher expectations than this.

Any suggestions.

Thankyou Alan

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[Brewmaster 10+ year member]

Any help?

Alan

 

[tbasile1 10+ year member]

I would say deffinately deaden those doors!!

But im not sure if not deadening would lead to distortion, maybe someone else can give there 2 cents

 

[Brewmaster 10+ year member]

I'm going to deaden the doors, actually all the doors even though the rear doors don't have speakers there are vibration rattles from the linkage there. I'm thinking with the door panel off there was to much open air space. But I'm know speaker expert. I was also thinking these doors have more space than my sub enclosure and it's only a 6" speaker in the door. That's why I wondered if I sectioned off part of the door for the speaker it might make a better size enclosure for a 6" speaker. My truck has wing vents in the windows so there is no problem with a window hitting the speaker partition in that part of the door. I also noticed it seemed the Focal was really vibrating wildly. But again that was open air basically. And I didn't try the Boston under the same conditions.