GT Stock Stereo Speakers

[Keith Ruff]

I have the GT model with stock stereo - not the Harmon Kardon stereo. I was wondering if another owner can check their rear door speakers and let me know if they are tinny sounding or if there is some bass coming out of them as well. Was on my way to work this morning and the stereo seemed off, so I adjusted the sound to the rear when in the parking lot, not a lot of bass coming out, so I put my ear to each door speaker, they were working but seemed very tinny with lack of bass in comparison to the front lower door speakers. I'm wondering if the rears are bad or that is just the design of the system. This is the 9 speaker system, one speaker on the dash behind the screen, small tweeter on each door, larger speaker on door bottoms, one speaker on each rear door, subwoofer under each front seat.

Appreciate any info.

 

[BlaydeX15]

Can check for you when I'm off work. Will probably forget though. Lol.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I didn't know the speaker arrangement of the "standard" stereo until you detailed it. So, a single speaker on each rear door: that would mean that all the sound is coming from one speaker. Since you have bass coming out of subwoofers under your butt, what would issue from a single rear speaker would be very small by comparison. Your two speakers in the front doors handle midrange and treble. Again, all three ranges are issuing from a single speaker in the rear doors. These are mostly "for show", to offer a bit of boost to rear passengers, but nothing to add, really, to the stereo; you are not going to get surround sound out of the two rear speakers, only a combined total sound, including some bass but not much. If you can kick the sound around, I would move it c. 80% to the front and ignore the rears. And, judging by other discussions and my own limited experience, if the standard stereo has the same controls as the Harman Kardon, I would try boosting the bass to +8, the midrange to +4 and treble to +1, and turn off the Clari-Fi when not listening to compressed files. This seems to give a good range without a muddy bass or shrill, overstated treble. If you don't have Clari-Fi then ignore that part, of course.

 

[bumble bee]

I own a GT no specical stero and it sounds really good.