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While I’ve no doubt the speakers in your Porsche example sound great, the German car industry LOVES to upsell a customer to a speaker with a designer label on i
by giobox 5y ago
While I’ve no doubt the speakers in your Porsche example sound great, the German car industry LOVES to upsell a customer to a speaker with a designer label on it - every single brand in the VW group does it, BMW, Mercedes…
I think the German manufacturers just understand their customers vanity, sadly, where being seen to have the brand matters. The label is practically more important than the sound beyond a certain point.
- anyfoo 5y agoIn this case, the Burmester system sounds really great. I'm saying that as someone who has no such thing, so I'm less biased to like it. The example came to my mind because when I heard it, I was amazed that this was in a sports car. But you may have a point anyway: The Bose system in the same car (a vastly more popular option because it is much, much cheaper) sounds worse than the cheap sound system in my old Ford.
- nunez 5y agoEvery auto manufacturer does this. Include a "Bose", "Harmon Kardon", or "B&O" sound system as part of a multi-thousand dollar premium package. Speakers are still the same paper cones as the trash-tier sound system; only difference is in some amp tuning, a sub, and a few tweeters. No surprise: the resale value of these systems is pennies by comparison.
- anyfoo 5y agoFor my particular example, I can at least say that the Burmester tweeters seem significantly better over the Bose, being solid (and heavy) ribbon tweeters, and not light cone tweeters. https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/SKUBERTWEET.html https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/SKUBERTWEET.html https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/SKU680TWEET.html https://www.suncoastparts.com/product/SKU680TWEET.html