Interesting video, but what made me laugh was the one of the last lines about how the sound is all around you and immersive. Apparently they forgot this MO when designing the 2SS system. The majority of the sound comes through the dash. The rears almost sound nonexistent at times.
At least its not just me.
The system has bass....but just at all the wrong frequencies and curves.
This is what pisses me off about Bose the most. Their level of sound customization is too small. (Some by design with the actual speaker design and placement and some by their "Apple" attitude which revolves around "We know more than you do and this is what we think is best for you")
They almost build their systems (anything, car, home, headphones...) around "light" music. With soundstages and pre-selected EQ'ing to compliment such music. So I'm sure if I were to tune into a jazz or classical station on XM, it might be alright.
But guess what bose....not everyone listens to one type of music. Case in point, I like to listen a lot of stuff but mostly rock/metal/classic rock/some electronic...etc. The vocals come out of the front/dash almost too clear (I'll give it that). But certain frequencies are either missing or are gained up too much. So say for example....80's metal where it's alot of mid's and trebles, but not too much low end. I find the sound too tinny and gutless. If i up the bass slider, I don't gain any substantial and listenable low end. And if I do, it gets washed out by the "boomy" pre-selected and gained up frequencies.
Or if I listen to something more modern that has a much fuller sound to it, it's still a no win situation. It might have too much treble, then if i kick down the trebles it starts to completely lose its clarity and vocals. The mid slider almost doesn't so much at all. And the bass is again boomy with no punch or low end.
I know it is what it is, but im not dumping money into changing the sound system out. If i had a realistic wish, I wish Bose/GM would release an update to MyLink with more sound customization options. At least have list of music genre types with thier predefined sound processing maps and then we can tweak the trev/mid/bass around them. But chances are that might be a 2018 feature and us early Gen6er's are gonna get nothing.
End rant....
