[CU2] Accord Euro - Focal speaker upgrade

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Originally Posted by JustRight

Hi mate,

Yes indeed. I first screwed the MDF spacers to the doors and used black silastic to seal them. I then used long broad threaded screws to go right through the MDF and just take up on the metal door panel underneath. This made it much easier to fit and I could do up the screws really tight. The whole thing is very solid. No buzzes or rattles from the doors at all.

Honda have actually done a pretty good job of sealing and insulating the doors.

Cheers.

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Ya found the insulation to be pretty neat job from Honda. Only complain is that window rail sitting in the way of the speaker opening at the door. :(

Pretty surprised with the amount of screws (5 in total) used to secure the door card.

hey guys im looking for a fascia for a after market dvd player sick of the standard head unit any ideas were i can find it tryed all the car audio shops cant find them no were

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Originally Posted by sa1d8u

hey guys im looking for a fascia for a after market dvd player sick of the standard head unit any ideas were i can find it tryed all the car audio shops cant find them no were

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They don't make them. DIY only.....

Not sure if it was your pic of not of the pioneer dvd player? how'd did you do that?? looks crazy i have had the dvd player siting at home for two months waiting for the fascia to come out

Said8u pm me your email I'll send u some info on my fascia kit. Replaces standard stacker etc

Hey mate, neat install.

Just after your thoughts on the SOEM4.

Also, why did you use one anyway? I thought the Focal had speaker level inputs, therefore, a LOC isn't needed?

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Originally Posted by oh_lol

Hey mate, neat install.

Just after your thoughts on the SOEM4.

Also, why did you use one anyway? I thought the Focal had speaker level inputs, therefore, a LOC isn't needed?

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True enough, the Focal amp does indeed have speaker level inputs. However like most LOC's they use big resistors to attenuate the signal. After doing a lot of reading on this subject, and learning that Honda's can be notorious for introducing noise into the audio system, I decided to go with the SOEM4. These units, like the "Peripheral SVEN4" that was it's predecessor, use transformers and therefore do not present a huge resistive load to the factory amplifier. Also, using transformers and DC coupling effectively eliminates all noise from the system, providing a very clean RCA level input for the amp.

No doubt if I had tried the high level inputs on the Focal amp it would probably have worked just fine. But I am very pleased with the performance of the SOEM4, it does a great job.

Cheers.

Thanks for the reply. Very fair answer.

I've never installed a LOC before. Did you need to tap into both the front and rear speaker wires, so you have '4 channels'? Or do you only need to splice into a pair of speaker wires?

Reason I ask is because you tapped into the signals right at the stock amp location, instead of just doing the simple route and taking them from the rear 6x9s.

Thanks :)

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Originally Posted by oh_lol

Thanks for the reply. Very fair answer.

I've never installed a LOC before. Did you need to tap into both the front and rear speaker wires, so you have '4 channels'? Or do you only need to splice into a pair of speaker wires?

Reason I ask is because you tapped into the signals right at the stock amp location, instead of just doing the simple route and taking them from the rear 6x9s.

Thanks :)

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Yep, I spliced in to the factory amp output and used 4 channels, both front and rear. This allowed me to retain the full functionality of the headunit, including being able to fade Front to Rear as necessary. However, it is certainly technically possible to use only a two channel input with four channel output from the amp. I just chose to keep all four channels separate.

Cheers.

Again thanks for the reply.

What are the other features that you retain if you do splice into all 4 channels? Besides fading?
I am planning to run just front splits and a sub, so if it's just being able to fade front and rear, I believe I won't need to do this? :)

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Originally Posted by oh_lol

Again thanks for the reply.

What are the other features that you retain if you do splice into all 4 channels? Besides fading?
I am planning to run just front splits and a sub, so if it's just being able to fade front and rear, I believe I won't need to do this? :)

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If all you need are Front Splits and a Sub, then you would gain nothing using all four channels. I kept all four only so that I could use the fading control from the head unit if I wanted to. Other than that, no real advantage one way or the other.

Cheers.

Hi again mate,

When you installed your SOEM, is the remote wire (blue) connected to the remote input on your amplifier?

Does this bypass the need to run a wire from a 12v that turns on/off with the car?


Simply put, the SOEM takes care of pretty much everything? If so, it looks like it's worth that lil extra compared to other LOCs.