Bose car audio?

Given the general negative vibe about Bose products on this ng I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of living with Bose car audio
products?

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I've only had a 5 minute demo of this add-on and, to be honest, I
couldn't really detect much of a real difference between the Audi
'Concert II' stereo system with or without the Bose options. Given
that it's a £400 option, I'm erring toward not specifying it and
sticking with the default stereo

Any opinions?

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:33:37 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:

Given the general negative vibe about Bose products on this ng I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of living with Bose car audio
products?

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I've only had a 5 minute demo of this add-on and, to be honest, I
couldn't really detect much of a real difference between the Audi
'Concert II' stereo system with or without the Bose options. Given
that it's a £400 option, I'm erring toward not specifying it and
sticking with the default stereo

Any opinions?


The standard Audi setup sounds better than the Bose in my experience.

d

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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:33:37 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:

Given the general negative vibe about Bose products on this ng I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of living with Bose car audio
products?

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I've only had a 5 minute demo of this add-on and, to be honest, I
couldn't really detect much of a real difference between the Audi
'Concert II' stereo system with or without the Bose options. Given
that it's a £400 option, I'm erring toward not specifying it and
sticking with the default stereo

Any opinions?


The standard Audi setup sounds better than the Bose in my experience.

d

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http://www.pearce.uk.com

"Stimpy" wrote in message
...
Given the general negative vibe about Bose products on this ng I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of living with Bose car audio
products?

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I've only had a 5 minute demo of this add-on and, to be honest, I
couldn't really detect much of a real difference between the Audi
'Concert II' stereo system with or without the Bose options. Given
that it's a £400 option, I'm erring toward not specifying it and
sticking with the default stereo

Any opinions?




I had a Volvo which had Bose speakers once - sounded very good. (Not sure I
would spend 400 spons for the privelege though - car audio just ain't that
important to me.)

A few years back I had occasion to be buying an Audi summat or other (pretty
low down the foodchain - 100?) and a Mazda 626 at the same time. While both
cars were similarly priced to start with, a quick exercise with the Audi
price list showed that it would have cost (at the time) an extra £1,800 to
bring the Audio up to the 'standard spec' of the Mazda. (A fair chunk of
this was the bloody radio.....!!)

"Stimpy" wrote in message
...
Given the general negative vibe about Bose products on this ng I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of living with Bose car audio
products?

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I've only had a 5 minute demo of this add-on and, to be honest, I
couldn't really detect much of a real difference between the Audi
'Concert II' stereo system with or without the Bose options. Given
that it's a £400 option, I'm erring toward not specifying it and
sticking with the default stereo

Any opinions?




I had a Volvo which had Bose speakers once - sounded very good. (Not sure I
would spend 400 spons for the privelege though - car audio just ain't that
important to me.)

A few years back I had occasion to be buying an Audi summat or other (pretty
low down the foodchain - 100?) and a Mazda 626 at the same time. While both
cars were similarly priced to start with, a quick exercise with the Audi
price list showed that it would have cost (at the time) an extra £1,800 to
bring the Audio up to the 'standard spec' of the Mazda. (A fair chunk of
this was the bloody radio.....!!)

I had a Volvo which had Bose speakers once - sounded very good. (Not sure
I
would spend 400 spons for the privelege though - car audio just ain't that
important to me.)

Which Volvo was that? All the current ones are philips / harman / dynaudio
depending on spec level - the dynaudio oneds are excllecnt

I had a Volvo which had Bose speakers once - sounded very good. (Not sure
I
would spend 400 spons for the privelege though - car audio just ain't that
important to me.)

Which Volvo was that? All the current ones are philips / harman / dynaudio
depending on spec level - the dynaudio oneds are excllecnt

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:33:37 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I have such a Bose system in my MB and the auto-adjustment system is
very annoying and it is not possible to disable it without surgery.
Sound is only OK, so I'd stick with the standard system.

Kal

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:33:37 +0100, "Stimpy"
wrote:

I'm about to order an Audi which, for a few hundred quid, can be
upgraded to include a 'Bose Premium' amp/speakers. This also includes
the Bose 'noise reduction' system which, according to the Bose web
site, compensates for ambient/road noise.

I have such a Bose system in my MB and the auto-adjustment system is
very annoying and it is not possible to disable it without surgery.
Sound is only OK, so I'd stick with the standard system.

Kal

"Tim S Kemp" wrote in message
. ..
I had a Volvo which had Bose speakers once - sounded very good. (Not
sure
I
would spend 400 spons for the privelege though - car audio just ain't
that
important to me.)

Which Volvo was that? All the current ones are philips / harman / dynaudio
depending on spec level - the dynaudio oneds are excllecnt



Can't remember for sure - 340 GLE or summat? It was 1.7 lt and top spec,
IIRC. (Damn nice little car....)

('Once' = a good number of years and a good number of cars ago....)