Doesn't anyone at Mazda habe the brains to figure out how to link tone/balance.

[Tom95134]

I switch between various resources (AM/FM/SERIUS/Bluetooth) and it really grates me that if I want to optimize my listening I have to get in a fiddle with the Bass/Treble/Balance controls. Radio stations today have well defined formats just as SERIUS does. Why can't the settings for Tone/Balance be linked to the resource? The seems to me a rather simple bit of software to include in the package. I own some Bose products and have been very pleased with them so the only conclusion I can draw is that the people at Mazda who are managing the AUdio system integration just have never really used their own product.

 

[Nodnerb]

Generally bose product are over priced crap. In the cx5 it is ok. But what bose calls " home audio" is a joke in the audiophile world.

I do agree with you. My home audio receivers all remember specific settings for each individual source. Not sure why this wouldn't be done here as well.

 

[tibimakai]

Also a setting for the startup volume. Variable volume with speed. I had these in my previous 2008 VW Rabbit.

 

[costermonger]

Also a setting for the startup volume. Variable volume with speed. I had these in my previous 2008 VW Rabbit.

You have that in your CX-5 too. Mazda calls it ALC, I think. All three versions of the CX-5 audio system have it (think Bose has a different name for it though).

 

[Kelly_A]

You have that in your CX-5 too. Mazda calls it ALC, I think. All three versions of the CX-5 audio system have it (think Bose has a different name for it though).

AudioPilot on the Bose. ALC varies volume as a function of speed, AudioPilot based on cabin noise.

 

[tibimakai]

I didn't know about that. The level is adjustable?

 

[costermonger]

I didn't know about that. The level is adjustable?

Yep, hit setup or the right audio control knob, select sound, and there's an option to adjust.

 

[squibcakes]

The non bose touch screen radio also has a ALC setting burried in the setup menu. I leave it off btw.

 

[jeisensc]

Generally bose product are over priced crap. In the cx5 it is ok. But what bose calls " home audio" is a joke in the audiophile world.

I do agree with you. My home audio receivers all remember specific settings for each individual source. Not sure why this wouldn't be done here as well.

As I understand it, Bose only makes the speakers. The head unit, amp, et cetera are overpriced crap from someone other than Bose.

 

[SayNoToPistons]

This ^...

Headunit should be made by Sanyo.