Are you talking about Stage 1 (tweeter only) or stage 2? Stage 2 uses a new 10 channel amp with a built in DSP. That enables configuration and tuning for the whole system. Each speaker has crossover points set, levels adjusted and a multi-band EQ that is optimized for the car and can be adjusted for personal taste as well.

I’ve had more time with the system and it just keeps impressing me. It was tuned for the top down and I’m finding that I need to lower the bass a few clicks when the top is up. Not because it distorts or sounds bad…it’s just that much bass.

I went to a PCA breakfast club meetup today and a few of us had the chance to bounce back and forth between a Boxster GTS with the full Burmester system and my Bose/Musicar. Same songs, back to back. The Musicar setup was far better. Butmester sounded good, but everything from clarity, separation, soundstage, distortion free bass and volume went to Musicar. I’m not knocking Burmester, it was better than Bose for sure and sounded good. With Musicar you get better clarity across the frequency range and you can hear vocals high and centered on the dash. Bose and Burmester pull it way down, you don’t get as much detail and the bass gets muddy more often.

A friend grabbed a quick video of some other friends rocking out during a demo 😂

 

Jeff, thanks so much for posting the experience! It was really great to meet you and the event was a blast. It's also somewhat validating that even the most cynical... errr.. critical listeners were impressed with the performance.

Okay, lots of questions here — let me see if I can answer these in some quote responses.

Prolonged exposure to direct sunlight could certainly cause issues over time. That said, the vent louvers cover the tweeter from nearly all angles and there's a mesh covering under the vent as added protection. I don't think there's really anymore worry than there would be for the factory tweeters or the rest of the interior upholstery for that matter.

As some have said, that "missing part" is an electrolytic capacitor and it's designed to limit the lower frequencies the tweeter is able to play. This is necessary since trying to play bass notes through a tweeter would force it to fail prematurely. In cars that have sound package plus(or older platforms with Bose) the tweeter and midrange are on the same amplifier channel, so those bass notes are being sent to both the mid and tweeter. Without the capacitor, the tweeter would fail.

In "active" systems, we have independent channels for each speaker and the capacitor isn't needed since we can send only high-frequency notes to that specific channel. That said, we still use the capacitor as extra insurance in the event that the amplifier fails and sends full-range signals down that line. It's a "safety net" of sorts.

In short, all of our tweeters come with capacitors built into the assembly.

That's probably still confusing, but I hope it helps.

I really enjoyed that audition. Some of my favorite music to evaluate system performance — glad you enjoyed it, too!

Yes and No — the SPP cars require a separate lead to be ran to the tweeters while the Bose and Burmester cars already have discreet channels.