Step 1 - B&W Grills and Focal Inside PnP Speakers:
I followed the thread on the forum about replacing the speaker grills with the B&W grills from AliExpress. These grills are amazing, quality is spot on and they look great. The lights on the mids are maybe not as bright as the real thing, but still looks great. Installation is not too hard, but certainly takes time and patience. It involves taking the door panels off, and then almost disassembling the door panel to replace the grills with the B&W ones. There are lots of light strips and wires in there so you do have to be careful not to break stuff. The tweeter housings are a little tricky because the clips are pretty fragile and I had to trim the foam in the housings quite a bit to get the new ones to fit properly. Installing these B&W covers took me the better part of 2 days, but I was really taking my time with these and end was result was great. Center cover was fairly easy to change, but hooking the light up required taking some dash/gauge cluster trim off and fishing the wire through the dash which is doable, but a pretty frustrating process.
Pretty sure this is the set I ordered:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32568...d=NGiXINhMye0t
Here's a good thread with tons of good info on the covers and how to change them:
https://g05.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1794420
While I had the door panels off, I also changed the speakers in the 4 doors and the center with the Focal Inside speakers. I looked at Bavsound and Bimmer-tech, but decided on the Focals. I had Bavsound replacements in my old 2020 X3M Comp and was not impressed with those at all, so that’s really what led me to just move up to the Focals.
Front and Rear Doors: IS-BMW-100L
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Center: ICC-BMW-100
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I did not change the speakers in the rear hatch area.
After Step 1, sound was better, but not great. The sound quality was better, speakers were clearer and not so muddy sounding, but the overall volume was lower. Going up over about 2/3’s volume created a lot of distortion and bass was still bad due to still having the stock subs. You could really tell the HK was lacking and just couldn’t push enough power to properly feed the system.