Bose or B&O
 

Guys

i have a S8 with B&O system... its not bad.....

but the car may have to go back as its got big issues.

there are more cars out there with BOSE

which sounds better??

I've had a D2 with Bose and now have a D3 with B&O, there is no comparison. The D3 Bose may have improved from the D2 version but there's a reason the B&O system was a £4K+ option.

I was always happy with the Bose system during the 9 years I owned the car, but the B&O in the D3 is in a class of it's own. The clarity and quality is better than anything I've heard in a car before, even friends who have installed aftermarket systems have commented that it's excellent.

It wouldn't be a deal clincher if I loved the prospective new car but I'd always prefer it +++

A lot of D3 b&o speakers fail over time. Center dash and front door bass speakers particularly.

If you're not amazed by it, or if you're getting flutter or unwanted resonance you probably have faulty speakers.

An S8 without B&o is a very undesirable S8 so make sure it's cheap.

Looking to maybe take mine back the the dealer as it had undisclosed accident damage, so looking for another REALLY

If the car has been repaired properly and it has everything that you want then maybe get some cash back from them?

Finding your perfect 2nd hand S8 is not that easy, some specs in certain combos are few and far between

I agree to an extent, but to me, mileage condition history and provenance are more important than a couple of optional extras

found one with full Audi history and £1000's in Audi receipts for service and parts..

mileage is a little higher but sensible repairs.

These are important also of course.

But for some reason the D3 S8 is the only car I can recall where B&O is sort of expected, and it does therefore make the bose ones harder to shift to the small target audience who aren’t so bothered (i.e. you ;-) )

I had 2 cars next to each other.

one with Bose one with B&O

agreed the B&O does have some levels of clarity over the Bose, but honestly i dont think its worth the massive price hike over the Bose.

I found i could drive the Bose harder for the more base style music...

2 cars the same or different models because both the bose and B&O can be different specs for each level of so comparing a bose A8 to a B&O A4 for example isnt going to be an objective comparison. . . .

2x D3 S8 same year

In that case I would wonder if there is something wrong with the B&O on that particular car, should be able to tell the difference between them and the B&O should definately have a bit more clarity and crispness and sound better than the bose for thousands of pounds difference in cost! :Confused:

That depends on the ears also :ROFL:

For me, it isn't a show stopper either way. On the D3 the Bose was fine for me, pop up tweeters look nice tho +++

On the D4 they upped their game on the "standard" system also, which wasn't bad for "free" :)

I agree - same here actually, the Bose in my A7 was pretty good and I've got D3's I'm running with (heaven forbid) the standard 12 or 14 speaker system whatever it was and the sound is fine for those purposes! +++

Hey Andy....It's not this one, is it ???

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14195

Lee