Drifting

Agree with this. A minority of women look decent with short hair, but most do not, despite what people feel obligated to say.

99.9% of women look better with long hair.

Sloopy

I prefer them shaved.

promocop

Oh Sally, just buy the Bose already!

drdonger

It is weird that manufacturers can't put together a good sounding lightweight system at this day and age. The only "good" stock sound systems I have heard are the Volvo B&W system and the top end Meridian Range Rover system. They all have a ton of speakers, instead of just putting in a few quality ones. I was pretty disappointed listening to the Burmester speakers in Mercedes and Porsche. Their home audio stuff sounds great.

gago1101

An important observation with the new head unit. The new unit can play high-res 192khz files, including flac. No DSD though. The new electronics in this thing is in a different league as well, much better than the old one. You can use a SD card to load your files and enjoy.

drdonger

My car was delivered yesterday and the Bose system is pretty decent for a stock sound system. It definitely has its flaws but it is miles better than the base system. I would definitely recommend it. I'm not sure why some have said the 991.2 GT3 has so much road/exhaust noise you can't here anything. I find it to be the opposite. The exhaust note is too quiet for me. I will definitely be getting an aftermarket exhaust.

Drifting

Dr. Ferdinand

If there was ever a super easy 'skip' option for me, it was BOSE (Buy Other Stereo Equipment). Have it as an 'upgrade' on several of my cars (P-car included) and it is nothing to brag about. This also being a GT car, the only music I want to hear is behind my ears.

0to60

Agreed, BOSE was an easy skip for me

Craigy

Dear TCL

May I ask the cost of the houndstooth inserts??

Sounds like a gorgeous spec!!

Dr. Ferdinand

$3,555

TexasPorschelover

Yep... Thank you. I also have on my build sheet:
Porsche script across the side
Stripes in medium grey 100-605/5 Porsche in Cadmium Yellow 100-15/5

Whatever that means - basically grey and yellow side stripes.

Drifting

Agree that in general Bose is overrated.

However its also important to consider that Bose has been sinificantly improved with .2 991 cars carreras and GT3s alike, compared to .1 991s and previous Bose systems in Porsches. There are numerous comparisons online describing this. So unless you've recently tested a .2 991 GT3 or carrera with Bose, I wouldn't be so certain it's not worth ordering.

Dr. Ferdinand

Agree with you, just as colors, sound perception can be very subjective. I usually have to be 'smitten' by a car audio upgrade option to consider it, but then again there is a much higher price to pay for such (e.g. Burmester in the Macan, Bang & Olufsen on the Audi S8, etc.)

To me when optioning the car the options fell into two major categories: 'must haves' and 'can live withouts'. In fact it started with 3 categories: 'need to have', 'nice to have', 'don't really care'. The Bose never made it to the highest category as there were many other options that I personally preferred having over the BOSE. Given there were many must haves (PTS, matching CXX, PCCB, buckets, lift, etc.) those ballooned the build quickly, so the audio became a very easy sacrificial lamb. Again, all subjective, what is of value to one may not be to another, hence why we likely won't see too many identically built GT3s...

Dr. Ferdinand

There is a variation in the stripes (e.g. there are multiple shades of grey) but the yellow as spec'ed (Cadmium) is the closest match the PCCB calipers, so if that was your goal good choice. For folks with the satin platinum wheels, I am told the 'aluminum metallic 100-58' stripe is a good match.