Dan Blumenthal

Hey, how many of you feel cheated by the joke of a stereo in the GT3?! I even purchased the sound plus package, and all it does is give you more speakers that spew terrible sound. I've heard better stereos in sub $20k Avis rental cars! Porsche ought to be ashamed of itself! The Bose system in my 996tt was worlds better, although not spectacular by any means.

Dan

BorrowedFunCarrera3.0

I havent heard the GT3 stereo, but I have heard the systems these guys do and they are fantastic. http://www.reusaudio.com/

I used to rep products to them and admired what they could do with these cars without damaging the delicate aesthetics.

Good Luck!

GT3 Chuck

if you can hear your 'stereo' your exhaust system sucks

mooty

i was not aware that GT3 had stereo?
at 8000 rpm, i hear nothing. it's the best way to drown out my income producing wife's nag.

Turbo4ever

I think the standard 4 speakers system suck.

The sound package plus is good eoungh in a GT3, it's much better than the standard one.

The BOSE system is too heavy for a GT3, plus not that good for the price.

And I won't go with aftermarket stuff, even tho is cheaper and better sounding, but that could damage the interior.

Marv

My stereo is the twin exhaust out the back and they sound wonderful.

WalkerInTN

The "Sound Package Plus" setup doesn't sound too bad. I do wish it was easier to add a bigger amp & some better speakers. Nothing I can't live without though.

It's tons better than the "Blows" (Bose) system that came in my Corvettes. Talk about crappy!

930man

i dont think i have ever turned mine on

cobrien

The stock GT3 stereo is the worst sound system I've heard in any car in recent memory. Fortunately I don't want to use it too much anyway!

tiger 6

DRG13

I thought the engine was the stereo..no?

Turbo4ever

The one in Lotus is more worst. That's why my Exoge doesn't have stereo.

bprzekop

I have had four Porsches, two with Bose (996 C4S and 997 Carrera S) and two without, including current GT3 with the sound package plus. I think my current GT3 sound system is pretty poor for a 110K plus car, but again I agree with most respondents that I hardly ever listen anyway, since I'd much rather put the car in "sport" and listen to the engine, especially over 5K RPM. Any "nicely noisy" (read: good sport exhaust) Porsche is going to have a fairly loud exhaust, and that will always compete with ANY sound system. With my past Bose equipped cars, if I listened to the stereo while parked, esp. with engine off, sound was just fine, even approaching very good status compared with other top notch systems like Harmon Kardon in my E Class Mercedes, but once underway, the sound deteriorated quickly due to the competing engine noise. So, bottom line, in GT3 I only listen to the radio when I am in town at low speed and absolutely need to hear something like news or weather, and occasionally pop in a CD to listen to music. But most of the time the music I prefer in the engine and exhaust anyway. Thus, I think putting more expensive stereo systems in GT3's is a bit of a counter productive exercise, pretty much like putting in great speakers on an airplane, vs. using a set of Bose noise cancelling headphones to listen to the movie.

oh yea

It's the reason I sold the RS

cobrien

Strange....I think the stereo in my Exige, while definitely not good, is far better than the GT3!