I was driving my wife's new 2008 Acura RDX

Guys and gals, I did all the things you suggest, turning the treble up, down, flat and the bass the same way. It's got a tipped up high frequency but no extended high frequency. Everything sounds sharp and it sounds brightly cool on pop, rock, etc. Their demo DVD-A used a multichannel mix of jazz with the classic guitar in back of you, keyboard back on the other side, bass in your head, etc. Sounded like my old pingpong stereo Command LP's of yesteryear, which admittedly, can be fun. Not realistic.

Sarah Brightman Webber EMI, Szell Philips 50th Beethoven 5/Sibelius 2, Van Cliburn Tchaikovsky pc 1 and Rachmaninoff pc 2 RCA hybrid, and others, no go.

I ended up with bass 1-2 up, treble 3 notches down and most of the sound away from the center (terrible speaker), with a bit more sound from the back than the front speakers and left right equal.

I think that's where the problem exists, and there is no graphic equalizer, just bass and treble and relative loudness of the speaks.

Throw a Behringer DEQ2496 in the front seat of that bad boy, and you're good to go.

jeff bowman, good idea :)

I am asking for folks who experienced the same and maybe solved it without ripping out this fake high end system. If one looks at the website for ELS audio Acura, they rave like swooning teens about how great it is.

I'm no Bose fan but had one in a Maxima. This had the 4" drivers in front,6X9 in the rear. No tweeters, just full range drivers. Each speaker had its own amp that included an EQ circuit specifically designed for the car. I added a sub and it was quite nice considering what it was. Good mids and very coherent. I think this has to do with just a single driver. Nothing is more offensive to my ears than a driver down on the door on one "plane" and a tweeter up high on a different one.

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