stevenknight:I installed my 6-ICs last night and had the same problem. It definitely felt like I might break something if I pushed too hard. Jason, on another note, is the foam liner that is in the speaker grill supposed to stay in it or I am supposed to remove that after speaker installation?
You can leave that it no problem. It is actually there to "mask" the speaker underneath the grill. If you decided to paint the grill, you would want to take it out as obviously that could gunk things up, but otherwise leaving it in = no harm, no foul.
David Bolt
Aperion Audio Guru
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