770 Meridian Sound System - Speaker Question
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Just for clarification... The adjustment referenced took a good working no ratlle system, 770W, and made it sound materially better? If so, I am looking into this, and if not....I will leave well enough alone.
My rating is as follows, High/Medium/Low:
1. - Rattles - Low occurrence but can be recreated with certain tunes
2. - Bottom - Low bottom/minimum base/Muddy at times
3. - Highs - Decent highs, no complaints here
All listenable though, thus if a "material" improvement I am all in, but if marginal....I will leave well enough alone.
Thanks
My rating is as follows, High/Medium/Low:
1. - Rattles - Low occurrence but can be recreated with certain tunes
2. - Bottom - Low bottom/minimum base/Muddy at times
3. - Highs - Decent highs, no complaints here
All listenable though, thus if a "material" improvement I am all in, but if marginal....I will leave well enough alone.
Thanks
#682
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Sorry, they did everything for me without charge.. I've bought a number of cars from them so they took care of these minor things and the stereo fix was warranty. As well, they inconvenienced me when I picked up my new XE sport, so they wanted to make up for it.
I will contact him tomorrow and ask for a reference and let you know.
Lawrence
I will contact him tomorrow and ask for a reference and let you know.
Lawrence
Just spoke with the master mechanic that did the update:
He said this is a new upgrade and there is no 'number' assigned yet; basically its being tested on some customers and awaiting feedback before it is made into an official upgrade.
Apparently if your dealer goes into their system and looks up Audio Amplifier Update, they will find it.
From my perspective it is an improvement as it seems to route the lower frequency to more appropriate speakers. If you have rattling speakers I would think this will improve things for sure, however, a speaker that rattles may still do so if pushed or with certain tracks.
Lawrence
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Wow... don't ever call yourself a "huge audiophile" ever again...
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James Tootle (09-24-2016)
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Now with Bluetooth I was using an older 4S that never really worked that well. It sounded fine wired in the XKR, but I never tried it wired in the SVR as I only had it for a day.
One thing I later noticed on the Iphone 4s is that I had a low end processing option on. Make sure all the processing is off, and no custom EQ settings are defined. Another difference I noticed is the 4s was that it distorted when at full volume and the 6S did not using Bluetooth. So you want to find that sweat spot where the music signal is higher than the noise(S/N ratio), or you end up amplifying noise.
Considering noise, now what your playing made a difference IMO, I usually download my music from Tidal High Fi(no streaming), or I have ripped CDs to AAC or WAV on my Windows phone.
Poorly ripped overly compressed Mp3s do not sound so great anywhere and the same goes here even more so. It's not really the bit rate but the quality of the compression. If your also streaming you also have to considering buffering and signal quality, it not as good as Satellite.
I'm not expecting home audio quality here. Not even the best car audio but I found a happy median and at times I need to make adjustments.
It took a day of driving around and adjusting the settings to get it to a good spot. The Meridian setting gives you much more if a center image to the vocals which is nice to hear. The high bass and low mid 200hz to 400hz can still get fuzzy as it sounds a bit over driven, but that could have been to over power any road noise at low volumes.
I'm really sorry for the rant, I've been old school and used CDs for music I love, and the XKR was just good with minimal intervention. I've never had Bluetooth streaming, and just from a technical standpoint there can be many areas of signal degradation. You also have to consider the Bluetooth version, firmware and drivers being used as possible weak spots.
I'm going to go try the settings on a friends 2015 F Type R that is having some issues so I'll report back as to what I find.
Have a good weekend!
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Jaguar is aware of an issue with the Meridian system and is currently working with Meridian music on a fix. One thing that has been found is some of the rattle is actually coming from the base system agitating some of the wiring in the door panels and behind the seats causing a "Rattle" sound. If you turn the base down (Which you shouldnt have to do) it eliminates most of the rattles. They system is so powerful it is rattling the car.
I am hoping they can tighten up the fold-down arm-rest or stuff some padding into the body cavity. It's quite annoying.
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I took my F-Type R into the dealer last week and they did the software update for the amp. It totally worked!!! Mind you, the speaker and audio system is still not great, but now the bass and lower frequency sounds are so much better at low volumes. Finally acceptable! Get the software update! The dealer had to find it through this forum first. Had no idea what I was taking about when I brought it in. But through here they figured it out and found the software update! Thanks guys!
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I took my F-Type R into the dealer last week and they did the software update for the amp. It totally worked!!! Mind you, the speaker and audio system is still not great, but now the bass and lower frequency sounds are so much better at low volumes. Finally acceptable! Get the software update! The dealer had to find it through this forum first. Had no idea what I was taking about when I brought it in. But through here they figured it out and found the software update! Thanks guys!
Can you post the exact bulletin number they used to fix it, from the invoice?
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I took my F-Type R into the dealer last week and they did the software update for the amp. It totally worked!!! Mind you, the speaker and audio system is still not great, but now the bass and lower frequency sounds are so much better at low volumes. Finally acceptable! Get the software update! The dealer had to find it through this forum first. Had no idea what I was taking about when I brought it in. But through here they figured it out and found the software update! Thanks guys!
I am picking the car up this evening so, hopefully, it helped quell my main concern: I'm fine with the 770 watt system's sound quality, but the buzzing/rattling is driving me mad. We'll see . . .
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This froths me hearing this. OK, I'm done.
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jaguny (09-29-2016)
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This is an absolute cop-out, and I would push hard. I hate lazy assed service, and this sounds just like that.....LAZY ASSED! They could speak with the other dealer and get the appropriate information on your behalf as a part of the "jaguar" family, despite indep. ownership of dealerships.
This froths me hearing this. OK, I'm done.
This froths me hearing this. OK, I'm done.
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Thank you for your post.
Please do not hesitate to PM me should you require any further assistance, and should any other member require any assistance, once again please do not hesitate to PM me where I will be happy to assist where possible.
Many thanks,
Amellia