I was driving my wife's new 2008 Acura RDX

In all seriousness, while I don't like Bose systems, they do sound pleasing in the midrange and their philosophies of sound reproduction probably work decently in a car system (though I turned it down as an option in my wife's Audi). Does this new sound system allow for treble and bass adjustments? Have you played with those controls? Part of the problem in a lot of these systems is trying to figure out all the adjustments; maybe something is out of whack? Or is this one that purports to adjust itself with no ability to change the sound?

Who the hell is Elliot Scheiner?

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.