Not Happy With Fg Premium Sound?

[RHR]

Been reading the odd topic about peoples complaints about the FG premium sound. After being in the same boat myself I decided to have a good fiddle with the settings.

For me I listen to mostly music like Powderfinger, foo fighters, Coldplay, the offspring, greenday...etc.

Now for me these settings work best and you can have the volume up around 20 - 26 with no distortion.

Having the "loud" thing ticked doesn't make much of a difference at high volume and for what its intended for is better used at minimal volume.

I have attached a few images of where the settings currently are on my Premo sound. Im by no means an expert but found that these settings work best for me.

Base Mid Treble

Equaliser

[Gloo]

How much BASS do you want? I have my settings all stock, with treble up 1, mid down 3 and bass down 6. LOUD off. Can crank radio 35 easy and 300+kbps mp3's 35, 90% of music. I also only have Power protection on and CD compression off.

MP3's are easy twice as loud as radio. Down low there is very little bass and good sound quailty, good for all music when crusing with the mrs and what evs. I like my music loud and once your up 30ish the bass kicks in enough and doesnt distort at all. But like I said, its very loud and no very bassy.

This is in a ute.

[BarKer]

Settings are good for CD as they are standardised when it coems to Bass, treble and volume.. MP3's are in a completely different world as they are ripped by different people, at different settings and with different rippers etc..

I think the premium system sounds great, maybe the new age car buyers expect a "nightclub" style sounds booming from their car..

[YOZ-F6]

anyone else pissed off that their radio is SOOO much quieter than the iPod/AUX interface??

I mean seriously, I listen to the radio to/from work, and if there is a sh*t song on (which mostly it is!) I switch it to iPod. the radio has to be turned up much more than the iPod, and when I change it from the radio to iPod, I practically blow the speakers, and my eardrums!

anyone else come across this problem?

[j.d]

yes, I have same problem, but same in all cars not just fords

must be radio frequencies or something ??

[tab]

You can just turn down the aux volume in your audio settings

[Pete A]

Radio volume is the benchmark. This is because it goes through tranmission limiters which limit the dynamic range of the signal (and other things) that's why it is quieter than normal CD etc. That's also why some stations have better sound than others, because they have different settings on their transmitters. Nothing you can do about that. So match them by decreasing the volume of the ipod and Aux inputs if it's important to you. The iPod and MP3 rippers all have different settings. They all treat the signal differently and you will also get different results. Even the master .wav files on a CD are different so not all CD's are the same either. The Premium system, nor any other systems can cater for that variation. It just deals with what it receives. One thing that I have been meaning to do. You will notice that your sub woofer has a cover over it in the boot. This is not really good for bass reproduction and one of the reasons why I think the BA sounded better. It was not covered. The Subbie needs to use the boot as a resonant cavity to provide the return air pressure. Theoretically this should improve the bass reflex response significatly. I haven't yet tried it myself. But theoretically it should. Anyone done it. Cheers.

[Gonadman2]

I think the premium system sounds great, maybe the new age car buyers expect a "nightclub" style sounds booming from their car.. :hiwelcome:

That's a terrible call.

Both myself and my mrs are very very disappointed with the premium audio system in my ute. In this day and age, is it so much to ask for decent low distortion drivers to be used? I could spec some decent DIY drivers for around $20-$30 that would wipe the floor with the 'premium' speakers. Is it too much to ask for time alignment, so that the singer appears to come from out over the bonnet, and no somewhere down near your feet? Can we get some proper digital crossovers for each driver, so that each speaker is making the most of its passband, and not adding distortion and break up nodes? Perhaps through in some real eq that is used to compensate for individual driver response as measured in car? Seriously, I would be more than happy to go down to Ford and design a system for them, as their engineers have no idea what good sound is. With a properly designed and tuned system, there is no need for complex DSP and therefore added cost would be negligible.

I have yet to have anyone, young or old listen to the system in my old XR6 and say that it sounded bad, and most agreed that it sounded better than their home systems.

So yea, I stand by my original statement that the stock system is an incredible disappointment, and that dismantling the interior on a $60,000 car so that I can have decent sound is also very disappointing...

[Dillz]

Unfortunately that's just the way it is mate and anyone that says it sounds good obviously has no idea what a good car stereo should sound like.

With the $1500 or so you save by not taking it as and option plus a few more bob you could easily achieve a system that at least sounds probably 10 times better.

[kink]

amen brudda