A seven letter profanity!

I'm impressed .... and somewhat intrigued!

Do tell, what was it? :D

Well, the previous owner had installed all a mix of things he thought was an improvement where I totally disagreed. Fortunately the car came with everything he had taken out, so it was a matter of bringing it back to original shape with Bose.

The profanity word is what you get when you have a mix of two dog rases. :)

Would have thought mongrel would have been fine to say on here...!

Thanks for all the responses on this. Much appreciated. I would ideally have like to have gone for a Bose car but when buying used other things such as mileage and colour are more desirable to me.

I do just enjoy a slightly better stereo in my 2004 Bose Audi TT. It's not perfect but is a lot clearer so feels slightly odd then driving my more luxo S8 in all its double glazed electric loveliness to have an inferior stereo.

I think I'll just keep as is as it's not a terrible stereo as standard, I just expected better for what was a £60k car new...

Intersting to find this thread as I was wondering how to improve the non-Bose audio. Would replacing the speakers make any noticeable difference?

I had Bose in my 2002 A4 and it was fantastic. As mentioned above, for the cost of the car when new the standard audio system is crap.

I've been trying to find out some solid information on the non-Bose system, and this is what I've got:

Front speakers are amplified by the head unit (RNS-D in my case).
Rear speakers are amplified by the rear shelf speakers, which also act as subs. (The part# on them matches the BOSE rear shelf speakers, at least).

I've not yet opened up the doors to check on my assumptions.
But if my assumptions hold true, I think the easiest solution to get my plan of a tablet running the place of the RNS-D would go as such:
Plug the tablet via 3.5mm->RCA into a 2-channel amplifier, plugging the front speakers into this amplifier. This leaves two channels for the rear seats unamplified for the OEM speakers to do it. Because screw the people on the backseat. I'm driving.
This way, I would have little need to do any extra wiring beyond the small 2-channel amplifier for the front seats. Might as well make it a four channel amp, and plug in a sub too while I'm at it. Or just use an active sub and rob the signal from the rear speakers, installing the sub beneath the rear shelf.

Now, since I know nothing of this stuff, where am I going wrong?