wkearney99 wrote:
Speakers crap out when out in the elements. Clarion speakers are cheap and start to degrade after a few years. The ones in my 2005 lasted 4 years before falling apart. Pop off the grille and look at the cones. If you see signs of cracking then it's time to replace them. The simplest route is to just get another set of the same make/model. Otherwise you're going to have to drill new holes (and countersink them) to mount a different brand.
Fidelity on a boat is a joke so spending a lot of money for "better" speakers is often a waste of money. Yeah, it'll sound better but within a year or so they elements will cause the more expensive ones to degrade too.
Yes, Bill is right. My own boat, a 2007 left over. So a new boat, 11hrs, but 5 years old. The speakers sounded a little "odd", I pulled the grills off and the cones were all cracked!! YES, as someone already said, check the speakers first!
If thats not it, you can do 2 things solve your balance problem. The first is to add a fader/balance control, which any good auto store or rat shack should have. I would do this any ways or upgrade the head. The other it to add a .5 to 1.0 ohm resistor to the louder speaker, which should bring it down 2 to 3db in volume.