04-11-2018, 07:48 AM | #43 |
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I have a convertible and I have the midrange down all the way, and I still need it down more. Plus, the head unit has completely different sound character between when the top is up and down - the sound coming from the stereo changes without me changing the tone settings. It is like we can only change 10% of the range, but the car can change it the other 90%. I really think we need a subwoofer bad in the verts, my 5th gen with the sub behind the seat definitely sounded better.
-Geoff
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04-11-2018, 08:15 AM | #44 |
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Mine is real close to this. Treble 1 click from maxed. Mids dead even. Bass 2 clicks down from center. Fade 1 click to the rear. I listen to mostly metal/hard rock, usually loud for reference.
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04-11-2018, 09:32 AM | #45 |
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My solution: TAKE OUT THE SHITTY BOSE SYSTEM and replace with upgraded speakers, amps, subwoofer, and sound processor
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04-13-2018, 01:16 PM | #46 |
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Surprisingly this helped me out a lot. I was under the old school train of thought that you manually set the balance and fade to account for distance from speakers. Duh, bose already accounted for this. Moving the balance & fade back to center really made it sound much clearer.
Turned the treble from +4 to +2 Mid from +2 to 0 Bass from +4 to +2 Sounds all around better and can go louder before sounding distorted. |
04-13-2018, 01:34 PM | #47 |
Sure, why not?
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I'm about to put mine back on the road since spring may have finally sprung up here in New England, so I'll check my settings again. Maybe try what you like.
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04-14-2018, 05:14 PM | #48 | |
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-Geoff
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04-19-2018, 12:44 PM | #49 | |
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Most of us that have installed subs in the convertible have gone with a custom box. I saw someone use a box where the top folds down, I have my amplifiers and sound processor there in a custom setup.
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04-19-2018, 10:08 PM | #50 | |
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I am holding out hope that someone will make a box that I can just drop in. There were a couple of them for the last gen, one from JL and one from you-know-who (initials S T). I think someone will make one eventually. No hurry, I am going to milk every mile out of my bumper to bumper warranty. It's not up until January 2020, so I still have time to wait! -Geoff
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04-20-2018, 10:48 AM | #51 |
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I dont have a problem at all with how the bose system sounds. What makes the system sound like garbage to me is all the plastic that rattles due to the speakers.
Could you spend 2k and get a much better sounding system? sure. But what's the point when you have to redesign the car's interior and add a hundred lbs of sound deadening to make any improvement? Hell, the switches on the drivers side door make more rattle noise than basically any of the other plastic parts in the front of the car and fixing that requires you to either take the switches apart and add some kind of wax to keep the plastic buttons from vibrating or taping the entire top of the switch down to keep them from vibrating. Adding weight isn't a good option either as that just negates a very important reason for picking a 6th gen over the 5th. And if you're just gonna be streaming music - there's no point in hating on the bose. You can make crap music sound good with a good enough system, but the bose is hardly bad at doing that. And you're not likely going to convince people who are happy listening to music that's been re-encoded in lossy formats 4 times on ear buds that their bose sounds like garbage. edit: i keep the treble and bass neutral i believe. The fade is like mid-way to rear. I feel like the default neutral settings make the rear speakers impossible to even hear. So i moved the fade until it balanced so that i hear the fronts and rear equally. I listen to mostly symphonic metal and goth metal at a volume that's about 80% of max. |
04-20-2018, 11:34 AM | #52 | |
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I used to take the switches apart to apply the pads. But I found it is pretty easy to get them in place without taking anything apart. |
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The ones I used I got at either ACE or Home Depot. Felt Gard (by shephard) 75 count 3/8" (10 mm) self-adhesive felt circles medium duty. Item # 007528/9949. Look dark brown to me. You need a sharp single edge razor to shave them. I did that while still on the adhesive backing. Sometimes I would cut the disc in half. You just need something big enough to fill the thin space and not stick out. Just one pad or half pad per side. This is the tool I always used to move them into position, something leftover from my model building days: https://www.micromark.com/Mini-Putty-Knife You could probably make a good-enough tool from an old credit card or plastic coffee can lid. Need something thin enough to get it in there and move it into position, but rigid enough to stick it in place. Guitar pick would work too. Much easier than taking door panels off and getting to switch units that way. You will end up finding more places to slide them in, like the hinge areas on sunglasses holders |
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04-25-2018, 12:27 AM | #55 | |
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I like music loud and clean, this system doesn't do that. I listen to Jazz, classical, rap, hip hop, rock, pop, pretty much everything except country music. This factory setup does not excel at all music genres. But, I am also probably the only person on this forum that listens to FLAC in my vehicles. The Nav Tv M650-GM allows digital output directly from the headunit. Combined with my Audison H8, Audison BitPlayHD, and digital amplifiers, even without adding 100 lbs of sound deadener, my system sounds 100 x better than the stock BOSE system. The BitPlay plays FLAC via the hard drive or USB.
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'14 CTS-V Coupe - ZL1 lid - Ported TB - Ported Snout - AirRad CAI - 8.66" lower - 2.55" upper- Greenbelt - SW Headers - SW Catback - Varimax Intercooler Pump - Track Attack Intercooler-Tuned at BRC Raceworks (551rwhp/516trq) '17 Maserati Levante- STOCK Last edited by drfeelgood; 04-25-2018 at 10:45 AM. |
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