Originally Posted by sonic370 (Post 1356027)

yeah it's a shame. the base system sounds
like a radio shack special

Originally Posted by 370zDoc (Post 1356009)

To answer the original OPs question (like 2 years after the fact lol): the Bose upgrade is hardly any better than the crappy stock audio. You're way better off going aftermarket.

and while I'm on the subject of sound, I love this car to death but the audio system is absolutely unforgiveable; got in my bud's Si the other day and was blown away by the sound quality compared to the Z. I think it's a little embarassing that a Civic with "Honda premium sound" has a better sounding system than our beloved 370Z. :shakes head:

Originally Posted by Plasmaball (Post 36599)

Bose is good, but not the best. If i could get money off with not having Bose i would. Then just special order awesome speakers and such.

Infinity Kappa or something.

Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat (Post 202794)

I will explain why the bose system is worse than the base system. Yes the bose has more speakers and a sub and all. But it also has what is called "sound processing circuitry" What this dose is looks at the signal of music and looks at what parts will distort the speakers and what parts it can not reproduce. Than what it dose is cuts them out of the signal than amplifies them and sends them to the speakers. So bose knows there speakers can not take a lot of power nor can there amps put a lot of power out. That is why the put this in ALL there merchandise form car audio to HT systems. So those subs in the bose system are not going to put out much of any base. In fact I have hear reports that the base models produces more bass than the bose system. This is the main reason why the base model is better than the bose. Not even upgrading the speakers will help the problem as the amp and processor will still do what they are doing. There are many other reasons as well.

Originally Posted by Mecinoid (Post 1363452)

Yep, That is true... But, a stereo system is a easy swap. I pointed the bad stereo in the Base Model to my sales person who didn't even know it didn't have back speakers. I got a few hundered dollars off for that observation. :ugh2:

I mean really... the 350Z at least had speakers behind the seats to fill out the sound.

Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat (Post 1375201)

Polk db's are good however I recommend getting a new head unit to run them as the stock will only provide about 9 watts of power. If you have the bose system your talking a entire system rebuild mostly.

Originally Posted by Alstann (Post 1448508)

Sorry to bring this from the dead, but there was a question asked on the first page that I have as well:

Does the 4-speaker base have the holes for the other 4 speakers, or are they a different interior panel part? I'm thinking that it might be worlds better to get a base and upgrade the sound, and do some aftermarket seats or whatever.

Originally Posted by bigaudiofanat (Post 1448761)

You mean does the back of the radio have wires for 2 more speakers meaning the 2 in the back? No you would have to get pins and install them along with new wire and run it back. Or the easier way is to get a new head unit as they already have all 4 outputs. If you think the base system does not have tweeters it does so you mean is their holes in the rear for rear speakers yes. Bose has rears but you would have to upgrade a lot more if you ever wanted to upgrade just speakers. Check out the sticky I made it will explain a lot.