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    What are your favorite aspects of your CX-5?

    It was Red ( wife’s choice …. Happy wife happy life ) Turbo diesel performance and fuel mileage. 5 years and 90,000 kms of trouble free driving. ( although battery probably needed soon ) Good on back roads where our BMWs don’t ride the bumps as well.
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    (2017 CX5) Does changing only speakers improve sound quality much?

    I don’t think the Double DIn idea would be a huge upgrade in terms of source sound quality. Just a dsp / amp / speakers swap out should do it. DSP or Amp with dsp just needs to take a differential audio signal input from the infotainment unit. That and 320kbit or usb / android auto / CarPlay...
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    (2017 CX5) Does changing only speakers improve sound quality much?

    Run the same brand in rear. You’ll get a better tonal match . Sub is only way to go rather than turning up bass on a pair of 6.5 inch woofers. Typically 6.5s don’t go that low. Needs a sub to fill in the 20-45hz region. I doubt the factory amp non Bose would be doing much more that about 20-30...
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    Off Topic New TV suggestions

    Have a Sony AF8 65 oled so a few years old now. X80 is two generations on. Things I like about the Sony Oled has outstanding picture for movies. Andriod OS has great flexibility for apps … but user interface is a bit slow Doesn’t need a sound bar for normal tv viewing. Uses screen speakers and...
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    Add an Amp. 2018 CX-5 Sport

    If tapping use the front speakers so you sub levels will be relative to the speakers closest to you. Also tap both and sum as post vinyl recording will often have stereo bass rather than centres bass mixes. Personally If tapping into these units I’d use adapters suchas sorche or meta...
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    2021 Mazda CX-5 No Audio?

    Only issues in the area we’ve had for is when CarPlay has been disconnected and then reconnect and gone into some kind of hung state. Has required ignition off /on cycle to resolve.
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    Off Topic What are ya listening to?

    Been doing a bit of the 1980s sounds of late. Reminds me that I must get on and fit out the CX-5 with better sounds. Have a fairly extensive build in my car. It gets reasonable hifi quality sounds ... or can be tuned to a night club :cool: With this first track I've always found it hard to...
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    2019 CX-5 Touring Non-Bose Speaker Upgrade

    Even though the standard system is very average I can’t bring myself to modify and replace speakers and add power. The idea of the infosystem only having speaker out limits ultimate results. Has anyone gone as far as opening up the factory system and taken audio feeds before the amp stage for a...
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    Off Topic What are ya listening to?

    Those kids do a great job ( as do Tool “ On the subject of great drumming this drum battle is up there. https://youtu.be/ySPNqRbk_8k
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    Off Topic What are ya listening to?

    Lazy Saturday morning, just been working through a component list for a Bluetooth boom box I’m making for my daughters birthday. Found a small 5 inch sub that will play to 34 hz Tang Band W5. Could be a good replacement sub for those Mazda’s running Bose. Will use some 4 inch soundstream...
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    Play songs from a USB thumb drive?

    I think I need to recheck . I’ll try Flac , WMA lossless and Apple ALAC again after latest update and try again and report back. Also need to sort some aftermarket speakers and amps that are compatible with stop / start.
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    Off Topic What are ya listening to?

    Great thread. Must get around to updating the speakers and amps in the CX5 . No sub and door speakers get muddy on bass. Pitty the infotainment system only does speaker out. Will no doubt hold back the system. Music wise have a few hundred albums on vinyl, 400 CDs, bunch of SACD. I mostly...
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    Play songs from a USB thumb drive?

    Running a 64gig drive in wife’s cx5 which is formatted in fat32 but it will read my 256 gig drive from my car which runs its default format. The car had its last update in Dec 2020 and had the CarPlay retrofit a coupe years back. One of the updates changed to play from where it left off on...
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    Apple Lossless Codec Support via USB

    9 months later and still no change on the Apple lossless codec encoded music (new firmware load from dealer today). I would have thought with carplay and closer integration with carplay that Mazda would have added it by now.
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