Before I got my BS I knew the radio was going to suck. I went in with little to no expectations. However after a couple minutes of futzing with it I was able to fade mostly to the front and run the bass up to about 5 with treble around 4. I was pleasantly surprised. It does matter greatly on your source file and quality. While some sound is lacking in the rap department for 'most' music it actually works well.
I was stuck listening to whatever happened to be on the 2 stations between ABQ and PHX which sucked a lot, and I don't have USB + AUX just Aux so I had no way of getting my phone to play anything through the car. So needless to say my drive home was mostly listening to the
PSE
and the music on my phone, ON my PHONE, through it's speaker :hilarious: Had I dropped in the headphone cable I'da been better off. If I had a way to pipe HD radio into it I would be even happier but oddly I have found a few FM stations to be 100 times better than the HD counter part.
With the above said I can only imagine, which I don't want to do, how bad
Sirius
has to sound. I'm happy to say the
CDR-30
and
Bose
jobbie will suffice for me. The PO I picked the car up from swore the entire rear speaker setup had been gutted. He never turned it up loud enough for it to do anything.
I agree with you, and I have the CDR-24 and the
Bose
in my 2006 Boxster S. Several people here have asserted that the
Bose
for the Boxster was indeed developed around the car, whereas for the Cayman it was not (at least not to the same degree). Anyway, CD's sound really nice, as least to my old ears and given my preferred style of music—mostly 1970's stuff from Genesis, Yes, Elton John, Steely Dan, and the like.
Nonetheless, I performed two modifications that improved upon the quality of the sound:
(1) I added a damping mat—Rammat—to the top and bottom sides of the front and top engine covers. I also added a "foam" sound absorber—Dynaliner—to the bottom side of the said covers. This cut back on the transmission whine and some of the metallic clatter from the engine, thereby improving the acoustical environment.
(2) I also performed the "Hoshi surgery" to the front two tweeters:
http://www.planet-9.com/987-cayman-boxster-electronics/75600-bose-tweak-plus.html
. It amounts to removing the tweeters and installing a capacitor in each to improve the high frequencies. I prefer a crisp sound, so this was a nice improvement given my tastes.
The
cap
on the tweeter blocks more of the low frequencies from reaching the speaker. There already is a cross over on them (or they'd be destroyed in seconds) but crossing them over higher helps them take more power easier and clearer.
BOSE
always seems to try to overlap the crossover around 6db which gives a very slow cut off. Depending on the
cap
you could be cutting off as high as 24db. Basically what the
cap
does is 'absorb' the lower frequencies so the tweeter doesn't move as much, thus causes less distortion. ( I used to own a car audio shop).
Thank you for the nice explanation. I now better understand the role that the capacitor plays in Hoshi's surgery.
I have 3 cars. I would say my Boxster S with the
Bose system
is the best stereo I have followed by my S4 which has the high end stereo and ending with my GTI which is the worst which has the high end stereo. This Boxster is for driving not the stereo however I am impressed with it. The
Bose
is excellent.
Sent from my
iPad
using Tapatalk
