Volvo signs up with Audyssey

[kenhoeve]

Volvo has been a leader in the OEM audio arena ever since they sourced Alpine OEM stock in the mid 90's. Now they are taking a further step forward by working with Audyssey Labs... see the article here.

http://www.swedespeed.com/news/publish/Volvo_News/article_1332.html

 

[j_garcia]

Since I have my products registered on the Marantz site, they sent me a survey on automotive audio and whether or not I would pay to have a stereo with their brand name on it in a car. I found it quite interesting that some of the big names in audio are looking into mobile audio.

 

[MidnightSensi]

I'm not a Volvo driver, but they have always had the best stock stereos in my opinion.

My Porsche has the upgraded Bose, with the '09 pcm, and it sounds like ****. Absolute ****. And XM is rubbish. I miss Sirius.

 

[kenhoeve]

I'm not a Volvo driver, but they have always had the best stock stereos in my opinion.

My Porsche has the upgraded Bose, with the '09 pcm, and it sounds like ****. Absolute ****. And XM is rubbish. I miss Sirius.

They go pretty all out on their premium systems. My '07 has two external amplifiers, 11 speakers, and a 12" factory subwoofer that they built into the spare tire well! All I did was retrofit the factory sub enclosure with a new sub and amp and now, for what appears to be totally factory, it absolutely jams. Just need an EQ which is why audyssey would be so great.

We have the "premium" harman kardon in our BMW. Absolute rubbish.

 

[j_garcia]

Yes, had the premium HK on my Bimmer and had a number of problems. Acura uses (or used) Alpine to make their OEM decks also, so they were decent; speakers weren't that great though.