2023 Denali - No Vocals from Front Door Speakers

[SlanglTex]

I have a 2023 Yukon Denali and have been unimpressed with the Bose system. The sound stage in the SUV is awful. All the vocals/higher frequency notes come from the upper dash speakers (none from the doors). The door speakers only play low frequency bass which is very strange to me. I went to my local GMC dealer today to sit in a brand new one to make sure mine didn't have a defect and they sounded the same, so assuming this is the way it was designed.

Curious if anyone else has noticed the lack of full range sound from the door speakers and found a solution? I plan to add the JL Stealthbox sub down the road to help with the poor sound quality in the Yukon, but was hoping to not have to redo the entire stereo system in a $94k MSRP SUV.

 

[WalleyeMikeIII]

Component speakers in the front and rear doors, this is typical implementation. In the Denali, door gets the woofer, dash the midrange, and A-pillar gets the tweeter. You don’t want a speaker tuned for low frequency to get the vocals…would be muddy.

Queue up the Oak Ridge Boys Elvira, and see if you can hear Richard Sterban sing “giddy up, ba oom ba, ba oom ba, ba mow mow” out of there