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Old 19th April 2020, 01:55 PM
NightOwl NightOwl is offline
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Another quick update.

Finished the tweeters on top of the dash today and took a closer look at the subwoofer. The BOSE subwoofer has a box of electronics that I'm not sure what all is. The socket has five pins but there are seven cables going into the box, and there are four cables going to the speaker it self (looks like two and two of those joins together). The parts in the box is not a passive cross-over, not sure what it does. Also, doesn't feel too confident that the std sub shares the connection with the BOSE sub. Time will tell.

Anyhow, my wife and I had a short drive today, and we both agreed that the difference in sound is surprisingly big. It's not by any means in High-End land, but a descent lift in the right direction, especially the tweeters sound very good in my opinion. With the std sound system, I had the treble at 3+ to try to make it good, now I could dial it back to zero and still sounds balanced. My wife said she heard details in the music that she hasn't heard in this car before.

I understand that adding a cap and the plug doesn't fit for the tweeters is a deal breaker for many, but everybody know someone that can use soldering iron, right?
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