olliechambers1 said:
I am pleasantly surprised at the standard system. The only real difference with the Beats Audio system is the addition of an amplifier and the subwoofer in the boot, which I'm not really sure is needed from the day I've spent with the standard system.
I agree. I had thought the Beats system involved replacing the standard system, but as olliechambers1has pointed out, it seems not to. The quality of the basic system is very good and the best I have had of my previous cars.
The rest of this can be ignored but may be relevant.
I used to work for a top end UK HiFi manufacturer. I did some R&D programming work on their loudspeakers but I am not an expert although I had access to the expertise of my colleagues in the firm and the best HiFi in the "listening room" in the factory.
Personally I think a lot of nonsense is talked about, and money spent on buying HiFi. The average, non professional, listener actually cannot tell the difference beyond a certain level of "quality". This is under ideal listening room conditions. Now if you take a car and put your good quality HiFi in it and belt down a motorway or run down the High Street the background noise, outside and inside, is the main factor, not the system.
You
can improve frequency response by the addition of woofers (say Beats) and tweeters and equalisation filters, but unless you improve the quality of your overall system
and the environment in which you listen then you might just be wasting your money. Much of the pleasure of HiFi is purely subjective and we fool ourselves into paying lots of money for a very small, if any, objective improvement.
I would say though that if people want to put Boom Boom systems in and it gives them pleasure, then go for it. But always listen to potential HiFi in as close an environment to your own. If it sounds good and your pleasure is worth what extra you pay then get out the purse. So sitting in a car with and without Beats, on the move, is the only objective way to decide.
