1NEETO

You talking about the soundstage studio on wheels thing? Yep the coupe has it.

NYCMaxima

I get the best audio quality with bluetooth audio for some reason, anyobody with bt qaudio should try that.

ricbel

I think thats what most people are complaining about. But if you think about it, isn't it better that the sound can go almost to full bars before it starts to distort badly? I rather have a system that can people can turn up and not distort badly, then some systems that start to sounds horrible at the end of the volume range.

TheFithBeatle

I love my Bose system. My friends have subs and mine just sound so crisp

G-MENTED

i like my bose system! if you want more bass, then upgrade. the bose system isnt designed for hip hop or house. it's for all types of music.

Elvisf16

Yeah, I got my coupe back today and found it. It's the first option on the second page of the Audio Settings. This setting improves the sound 100%, in my opinion. I am actually amazed at how much better it sounds with this option selected "ON."

saxxml

I have been a working musician for 40 years and know what recorded music should sound like when it's played back. The Bose system in my 37S produces an excellent soundstage with the right amount of spacing between instruments. If you're looking for 'bass in your face' wire up a few powered subs.

prankiRL

Im satisfied with my bose system, I persnoally love how infinitis come stock with bose.

LarryG

YouTube - Car

That's what's wrong!

Sena

iTrader: (5)

true
the bose system is not amazing
but it is better than alot of oem systems out there
yes, you could drop a few grand and clean it up
but for most ppl, i think a sub and amp combo is suffice

that's how i'll be building my system first
maybe do a full swap after the car is built

Dingo6610

I think the bose sounds great. I hear a lot of the higher end percussion stuff broken out into the tweeters in the door. I keep the "optimize for driver" turned on, and I've got about 60 CD's already loaded onto the music box. They sound great. I'm a fan.

Breitling65

Not better than in Lexus or Acura. Sure miht be better than Hundai

bitNine

I have tried to give this system more credit than it deserves, but it deserves less. It's just not good enough

1. Not loud enough with some music. It gets loud, but not loud enough. My GF's JBL system in her Tacoma goes louder.

2. Tweeters are not bright enough. I've heard tweeters made of paper that sound brighter than these tweets.

3. Increasing volume does not increase the VOLUME. It increases the amplification of specific ranges of frequencies. You can hear it mostly up top when trying to turn up something past 3/4 volume. I hear mids increase without an increase in the highs and lows. There is a line in an OEM amplifier that frequencies hit that they can't go past. Once a freq hits this maximum, and you turn the volume up more, only other lower frequencies are turned up past that line. This means that at 90% volume, you could have mid notes that overpower the bass note that was already at 100% capable freq volume when the volume was at 75%. So from 75% to 90% volume, only mids and trebles get turned up. Not the entire frequency. so at 100% volume, each frequency range is at a different volume than the recording itself. This means you are hearing your music, completely unbalanced from how the artist recorded it. Doesn't matter if it's Yani or Snoop Dogg.

4. I can't stand the majority of the bass coming from the doors, and absolutely no bass coming from the "subwoofer". In a real component stereo system (The Bose system is a component system), each component plays a specific range of frequencies, and those components overlap slightly with other components. The Bose system puts every frequency into every speaker, except they filter low frequencies from the tweeters (you have to, or they'd blow). This shows me Bose did only what they needed to for this system. The subs in the doors play far too much mid range, and the highs can't output the highs that they need to. Meanwhile the sub isn't heard and the mid range is so loud that it's overpowering the highs ans lows.

5. A high quality system, and it doesn't even have an adjustment for mid range. It is a 2 band Eq. Bass and Treble. A high quality stereo with almost no frequency adjustment. Even my old car had mid adjustments.

This system sounds pretty damn good at 50-60% volume, with most music. It just doesn't perform as well as I'd expect, or as well as OEM systems in other vehicles.

Breitling65

Bose is really Clarion, cra.y brand with smart marketing. They are bad even for home systems too, not natural sound and overprised components with fancy name Bose.

Waydog

For the people who have to deal with having a sedan with the Bose system, give this a try:

1.Buy a Monster iCable - connector cable. No need to reply with, "oh, it's digital; all ones and zeros (binary). It's not going to make a difference." Just do it. You'll find it at Target
2. Rip one of your favorite albums in iTunes using Loss-less format.
3. Go into the settings of your iPod and enable "Sound Check." Set the "Volume Limit" to a quarter down from maximum. MOST IMPORTANT setting: Set the EQ to "flat." Yes, FLAT.
4. From the head-unit, Bose System, Notch up the bass one or two levels from the middle; notch up the treble, one from the middle
5. Play that album from you iPod.
This should give you some of the mid-base that is not present in the system.

This will peak out the crappy digital amp, which is basically a switching device to keep the power consumption down; never allowing enough current to load the speakers properly.
Don't believe me? Open the hood and look at the battery. My riding lawn mower has a bigger one...

Please reply after the minor tweak, so I don't feel like I'm imagining / exaggerating this whole thing.