Speaker Mods

[valentinoamoro]

I sat in a 2014 with the Shaker system. Coming from some fine audio in European cars (and being a moderate audiophile, not terribly discerning) I felt the Shaker sucked. Too much boominess and not enough clarity - the sound was muddled and warm (analogy is some of the Beats headphones).

I'm thinking of an upgrade as one of the first mods on the car - no subwoofer for sure. Have S197 owners upgraded their amps and speakers and what are their reccos?

Right now I'm eyeing a modest setup -

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_091130AS/Focal-130AS.html?tp=105

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[Brent302]

I sat in a 2014 with the Shaker system. Coming from some fine audio in European cars (and being a moderate audiophile, not terribly discerning) I felt the Shaker sucked. Too much boominess and not enough clarity - the sound was muddled and warm (analogy is some of the Beats headphones).

I'm thinking of an upgrade as one of the first mods on the car - no subwoofer for sure. Have S197 owners upgraded their amps and speakers and what are their reccos?

Right now I'm eyeing a modest setup -

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_091130AS/Focal-130AS.html?tp=105

Maybe they had the equalizer set to all bass.....

 

[likeaboss]

I sat in a 2014 with the Shaker system. Coming from some fine audio in European cars (and being a moderate audiophile, not terribly discerning) I felt the Shaker sucked. Too much boominess and not enough clarity - the sound was muddled and warm (analogy is some of the Beats headphones).

I'm thinking of an upgrade as one of the first mods on the car - no subwoofer for sure. Have S197 owners upgraded their amps and speakers and what are their reccos?

Right now I'm eyeing a modest setup -

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_091130AS/Focal-130AS.html?tp=105

While it might keep the Shaker name it's a completely new system. You don't you listen to it first before modifying.

 

[valentinoamoro]

thanks. Didn't know it was all new.

 

[SeaStang]

thanks. Didn't know it was all new.

Its completely new. Doesnt even come with the same speaker sizes anymore and you do get a trunk sub with the system whether or not you want one but itll be well integrated. First see how it all sounds and then decide what parts you want to fudge with. I LOVED my Shaker 1000 to absolute death and spent 3 summers of my life playin ac dc and zz top way too loud havin people singin along with me in passing cars LOL good times. If you drive it like a boring euro milktoast itll mean nothing to you :-) if you screetch the tires and play some guitar riffs youll get the system.

 

[valentinoamoro]

Its completely new. Doesnt even come with the same speaker sizes anymore and you do get a trunk sub with the system whether or not you want one but itll be well integrated. First see how it all sounds and then decide what parts you want to fudge with. I LOVED my Shaker 1000 to absolute death and spent 3 summers of my life playin ac dc and zz top way too loud havin people singin along with me in passing cars LOL good times. If you drive it like a boring euro milktoast itll mean nothing to you :-) if you screetch the tires and play some guitar riffs youll get the system.

Sweet. Glad to hear its redesigned - i thought the 401 package had a sub, the premium w/o didnt?

I'll blast some Floyd and GnR on mine!!

 

[Ericc B]

Those Focals are world class speakers. You will need a 3-way set though.

 

[valentinoamoro]

Those Focals are world class speakers. You will need a 3-way set though.

Good to know - havent found one yet.

 

[Waylap1]

What would it take to upgrade the base 6 speaker stereo without changing the dash appearance and not too expensive?

 

[SVTFreak]

What would it take to upgrade the base 6 speaker stereo without changing the dash appearance and not too expensive?

Nobody know yet.

We have to wait to see how it's engineered and built before there will be any idea on how to proceed on anything.

 

[908ssp]

Those Focals are world class speakers. You will need a 3-way set though.

No they don't. Speaker systems for cars are designed to sell not necessarily sound good. A three way home system would be a tweeter, 4" to 8" mids and subwoofer, there is no reason a car needs more than that. A three way door speaker is a joke.

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

No they don't. Speaker systems for cars are designed to sell not necessarily sound good. A three way home system would be a tweeter, 4" to 8" mids and subwoofer, there is no reason a car needs more than that. A three way door speaker is a joke.

I'm something of an audiophile -- I have a set of these in my living room, and all together between multiple sound systems there are probably $20K in speakers in my apartment -- but the speakers in the Mustang are fine, because NO speakers will ever sond that good, for the simple reason that wind and road noise is loud, and will always destroy sound quality in a car that isn't a Bentley with 500 pounds of sound deadening.

 

[Ericc B]

Well you can argue about the use of a 3 way set in a car, but it's how Ford designed the new Mustang system. Mid bass and midranges in the door, tweeter in the A pillar.

 

[908ssp]

Well you can argue about the use of a 3 way set in a car, but it's how Ford designed the new Mustang system. Mid bass and midranges in the door, tweeter in the A pillar.

Right because people are convinced more is better. I am not saying that a good system can't have more speakers but that is isn't absolutely necessary and that more speakers doesn't mean a better system. Quality is not quantity.

I agree for my old ears unless I am parked and the car is off the sound systems can't compete with road noise and wind.

Years ago I designed system that changed volume and EQ automatically to compensate for the ambient sounds. You would be shocked to see how skewed the frequency response gets when you do that but it did sound better. I think some of the premium car system might do this to some extent.

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