Bose Question Regarding Speakers

[SpeedThree2K7]

I have the MS3 with the Bose system. I have the bass set to 4 and during certain songs I get some bad vibrations from the passenger side door. I have complained twice to two different dealerships, not surprisingly, they told me it was normal. My wife has an 07 Jetta with a 10 speaker system and she has no issues with vibrations. Is it me and this is normal, or should I be calling Mazda?

 

[whitey4311]

I have this too and it onyl happens with certain songs and their base. Fade to the rear x1 and it will sound much better.

Also I only notice this on the radio or with sirius but with CD it sounds great.

 

[Abaddon]

Its just the design of the doors and enclosure for the speakers. Some sound deadening will take care of the problem, and make the speakers have much better mid to low end response.

 

[SpeedThree2K7]

Thanks for the tips! Has anyone here installed any Dynamat in their doors? Is there easy access to put it in? Thanks.

 

[tsunami]

yeah sound deadening is your friend... and bass at 4 dear lord man just get it over with and go buy a sub if you want some low end your going to blow your speakers if you play it to loud with the bass turned up. i am not sure how they have the x overs set if you have bose or not but that much bass through a full range speaker at high volume = blown. put some sound deadening in your doors!!

there is a screw in the handle cup and one on the armrest after that you just pull gently from one corner... if you break one of the lil plastic things that hold the plastic panel in place you can get some from your dealer for like .75 or something i bought a bunch when i did mine and it was really cheap. also depending on what your plans are for your stereo you can do different things with sound deadening. if you are going to keep it stock just put one layer on the metal under the plastic panel and maybe a couple pieces in problem areas on the panel itself you will know what these are after playing with it a couple times. if you plan on upgrading your audio you should just go all out the first time and do a full job. thats one layer on the outer skin itself sandwich the middle layer and a layer of ensolite type foam on the plastic panel.

i highly recomend any type of butyl style deadener don't cheap out and get the asphalt style its a b**** to get it to stick, it stinks!!! and can fall off easily at higher temps and doesn't last that long anyways. dynamat, tsunami, raamat and others all make a butyl based product. for what is probably your best option go to

http://www.raamaudio.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi

good luck and its really not as big of a project as you may think just need to take your time and figure your plan out before hand, i just recieved my shipment from raamaudio and am about to go in for more deadening in my passenger doors and trunk... 375watts to each door makes for some serious rattling.

if you don't use raamat i would suggest a pair of kevlar gloves or something as the metal backing cut my hands all to s***!!

 

[mghunt]

The interior door skin (behind the door panel) is plastic. So, the speaker mounts to plastic. Not a quality design IMO. My previous car used a metal inner door skin that the window regulator mounted to.

I also think that door deadening and isolating possible rattles is the solution.