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Originally Posted by thomasluke

Did you read the manual that came with them? You have to rabbit out the edges of the baffke for the mid to "breath". If you do not the sound is exactly as you described.
EDIT: Plus a little more power wouldnt hurt.

Good question but yes I did bevel the back edges except for the four spots where the screws anchor the speaker. It also looked like their template was oversized so the baffle opening had space between the edges & the cone. The screws are about 1/4" from the inner edge of the baffle since the opening is oversize, had to leave the meat on four spots to get a good bite.

BTW, even with this issue & low RMS....they still sound really, really good. Hooking up my new Pioneer DEH-80PRS tomorrow and will bridge my amp soon to up the power, just wanted some break-in time at lower power.

Couple of things that, in hindsight, I might have done wrong...
- Reused the existing ccf between the baffle & the door.
- Used 4 screws thru the baffle (threaded thru, not oversize holes/loose) and anchored into the door. So not independent fasteners for baffle & speaker. 1/2 the baffle had to be same size as speaker diameter due to door card config, and contours in the door steel around speaker, no real room for two independent sets of fasteners.
- Used a thin layer of ccf between the speaker mounting ring & baffle surface.

It just seems like the sound in the mid-freq's changed when I went from the 1st week installed directly to the door, to adding the baffles & deadening on the outer shell. It seems like some sound is 'in the door'.