Hi all,
I mentioned this in passing in my other thread about lights, trims etc.
Basically, my new C-Class arrived just before Christmas and it's lovely but for a few niggles. One of them? The front right speaker in the driver door (the lovely metal finish one) rattles.
It only does so on certain kinds of music but basically the sound system and the seats are the most important selling points for me on a car. Strange but true
If you feed it dance music (which is about 2% of my listening!) then it is stunning. If you feed it heavy-ish rock it's great. Where it struggles is acoustic guitars and male voices. At a decent volume, everything else in the track is crystal clear so it's not like the whole thing is distorting. It's just that some guitar notes will make it sound like Metal Mickey farting.
You can even set it off if you have a phone call to a bloke with a loud voice. All speakers seem fine but for the one on the left which has the issue. In all cases, I've demoed it to the staff at the dealership who have said 'it shouldn't be doing that'. And it shouldn't - the tracks that upset it are familiar to me and gave no issues in my Audi with B&O / they give no issues at home.
Holding the other end of the aluminium trim where the speaker is housed seemed to reduce the issue so I thought 'sympathetic resonance'. They had the car in and stripped the door panel. Still the same. Yesterday they replaced the speaker. I'll see how it goes.
My question is 'anyone else'? I had a November build 205 as a loan car and it had Burmeister. It was worse than my car!! In it's case, it was the right hand speaker.
I'm still convinced it's resonance, not a speaker problem but would welcome your thoughts and experiences. Whilst I'm hopeful it's cured, the issues that the loan car had are making me wonder if this is common and if, a couple of months down the line, I'm going to get Metal Mickey farting in surround
I mentioned this in passing in my other thread about lights, trims etc.
Basically, my new C-Class arrived just before Christmas and it's lovely but for a few niggles. One of them? The front right speaker in the driver door (the lovely metal finish one) rattles.
It only does so on certain kinds of music but basically the sound system and the seats are the most important selling points for me on a car. Strange but true
If you feed it dance music (which is about 2% of my listening!) then it is stunning. If you feed it heavy-ish rock it's great. Where it struggles is acoustic guitars and male voices. At a decent volume, everything else in the track is crystal clear so it's not like the whole thing is distorting. It's just that some guitar notes will make it sound like Metal Mickey farting.
You can even set it off if you have a phone call to a bloke with a loud voice. All speakers seem fine but for the one on the left which has the issue. In all cases, I've demoed it to the staff at the dealership who have said 'it shouldn't be doing that'. And it shouldn't - the tracks that upset it are familiar to me and gave no issues in my Audi with B&O / they give no issues at home.
Holding the other end of the aluminium trim where the speaker is housed seemed to reduce the issue so I thought 'sympathetic resonance'. They had the car in and stripped the door panel. Still the same. Yesterday they replaced the speaker. I'll see how it goes.
My question is 'anyone else'? I had a November build 205 as a loan car and it had Burmeister. It was worse than my car!! In it's case, it was the right hand speaker.
I'm still convinced it's resonance, not a speaker problem but would welcome your thoughts and experiences. Whilst I'm hopeful it's cured, the issues that the loan car had are making me wonder if this is common and if, a couple of months down the line, I'm going to get Metal Mickey farting in surround
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