The base system is horrid. Worse than the 991 by far.

I ended up picking up a Rennspec retrofit system back in December and installed it. Definitely a big improvement, but still no real bass / midrange.

I think a majority of the upgrade is putting in the Burmestertweeters. They use OEM *rear* Burmester tweeters which are then a plug and play for the base front tweeters (oddly). I can look up the part numbers from my boxes. I’d start there and see if it’s adequate.

 

That would be awesome if u could share that... Thanks!!

 

Does Musicar have a group of shops that can install their systems local to the buyer?

 

Dr. G - I am not sure if they are nationwide or not. Mine was installed by Moe at Glistening Perfection in Costa Mesa, CA. Musicar is out of Portland, OR. I see you are in NJ. I'd suggest reaching out to Nick to see if they have a Musicar installer in NY/NJ.

The Musicar 3+ was designed specifically for the interior of the GT3. It is pretty impressive what they came up with to create an excellent sound stage in a car not known for being ideal for listening to music.

 

When I bought a 200k car I didn't expect it to have the sound system of a 12k car LOL....

My big thing: My 991.2 was base stereo and it was way better.

 

Was it that much better in the 991.2 or maybe there was less interior noise to compete against? I don’t remember it being much better (but I honestly don’t expect much more from either one, given its mission).

 

Def possible. All I know is I struggle to hear what I'm listening to and I never had that problem before. I actually enjoyed listening to music on the track, and I def cant do that now... lol

 

I find the Bose system capable of acceptable listening- you need a good source, plain MP3 wont do - I use Apple lossless format and jiggle around with the controls - Surround mode not too bad but Linear with bass/treble adjusted to taste is quite good. Car speakers do need to break in over a fee weeks.

 

For the life of me I've never been able to discover how to change the base/treble on the Bose system, any pointers?

 

Its hidden under the Bose logo


Home - Media - Bose - Bass and treble


I found Linear and Soundtrue ticked worked for me for most music sources

 

All my music is on a USB SSD hard drive, the files are hi res FLAC. I have the Burmester in the TTS. For some reason music from Tidal sounds better than my FLAC files. I can't figure it out since on my home audio system it's the opposite.

I may be able to order Focal car speakers at dealer cost. I'm going to try to find out - but I still would need to have adapters made and the amplifiers upgraded. I like the idea of a system like Musicar where someone else has done all the legwork and tuning. I would try to DIY install the Musicar system but my nickname is "Lenny," as in one of the main characters from "Of Mice and Men." I tend to break almost everything I touch, so I imagine trim pieces, clips, etc would be destroyed if I tried to do the installation.

 

Fantastic, thanks so much!! That solves a 6 month mystery for me ;-) That's a pretty poor user interface design, they should have labelled it Sound or something like that.

 

Can the 992 read Flac files off a usb?

 

My TTS has no issue with it.

 

It depends on the FLAC file, some codecs seem to be able to be read, some don't- I use an encoder called Switch and found the .flac files werent recognised whereas an online CODEC .flac files were. I ended up using Apple lossless .alac which sounded good snd were consistently read.