Bose vs Stock Sound...My research and opinion
10-30-2008, 10:58 PM
#31
Race Director
Thread Starter
Hey Andrew, enjoying the wheels! I wish I never sold 'em now...oh well I will be back next year. The car is awesome and I have been driving it so much and traveling for business i have not yet taken 1 photo. It is red with balck and red interior and only performance options like the lowered sport suspension, LSD ect, except for the red center console. I will take some pics this weekend.
05-21-2017, 01:46 PM
#33
The BOSE non-MOST factory system fitted in my old (and now sold) 996 sounded absolutely fantastic compared to the standard lofi fitted in my current 997.2 C4S...
05-22-2017, 02:53 PM
#35
Rennlist Member
I have the standard (non-Bose) system in my 997.2 and it sounds horrific. I can't believe someone paid almost $90k for he car originally and they were ok with how it sounded. My daily driver is a Ford Fusion and the system is 10X better. I'm not a huge fan of Bose, but I think it's still worth the upgrade in these cars.
05-22-2017, 03:14 PM
#36
AutoX
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 14
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Just a recommendation
They put the Bose away.
05-22-2017, 06:03 PM
#37
RL Community Team
Rennlist Member
Rennlist Member
For noise, I just use a brick-wall headphone... I have owned two sets of Etymotics and still use them to this day. Just ram-em-in-there plugs and it just physically blocks sound.... best for airtravel I ever found. I have the original, $300 model but I understand they have a few more now.... even this model has options.... the basic model I have has a very thin bass and I understand they addressed this... but anywho..
https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/earphones.html
Peace
Bruce in Philly
06-04-2017, 12:23 PM
#39
Instructor
Alan, I am not sure about the old 997.1 stock system but from the 997.2 cars I have sat in the Bose sounds the same...no punch in the low end and horrible highs with harsh thin mids.
The Bose is still very unnatural sounding to me in the 2009 car...especially when I listen to well recorded acoustic music where I know the sound of the instruments and the recording. On heavy rock cd's with a super punchy bass drum like the last 2 Nickleback cd's the Bose really lacks the overall punch and sounds shrill at higher volumes.
The stock system I bet would totally kick the Bose butt (not hard to really do) if you had the stock speakers swapped out. The stock system seems to have some power but I'd check the effeciancy of the replacment speakers and this would save weight over the Bose system. Plus save money and get you much higher quality speakers for around the same amount of money or less than the Bose system.
I hope this helps...
The Bose is still very unnatural sounding to me in the 2009 car...especially when I listen to well recorded acoustic music where I know the sound of the instruments and the recording. On heavy rock cd's with a super punchy bass drum like the last 2 Nickleback cd's the Bose really lacks the overall punch and sounds shrill at higher volumes.
The stock system I bet would totally kick the Bose butt (not hard to really do) if you had the stock speakers swapped out. The stock system seems to have some power but I'd check the effeciancy of the replacment speakers and this would save weight over the Bose system. Plus save money and get you much higher quality speakers for around the same amount of money or less than the Bose system.
I hope this helps...
