Bose Package, Worth it?

kenchan

I've swapped my HU twice already to keep up with the times.

I'm sure I will swap once more before I'm done with my Z.

Zipper 104

I have no idea what Bose setup is in my Z. Frankly, it disturbed me when I saw Nissan put in Bose stuff. (It has Sat radio, a CD changer, whatever) I have the leather seats and the auto dimming/Homelink mirror stuff so I guess that dictates what Bose setup I have.
I have no real idea if it is 'good enough' since road noise is so bad. I would never consider tearing my car apart to install aftermarket stuff until I made a decent attempt beforehand at quieting the car down. I have reasonably serious coin in a system at home yet have no desire, nor expectations of decent audio in my Z, so I get that plenty of people are happy with Bose in their cars. OTOH, my rationale for 'joe average' being of the opinion that Bose is high end has a lot to do with them being 'fed the Bose koolaid' so they are less apt to speak up if they think it sucks when they audition the stuff. I know people with those crappy Sound Cube home theatre systems that think they are great, but more often than not it came down to spousal satisfaction. Small and unobtrusive is best, honey; it's expensive so it must be good. No need to listen to it critically nor bother listening to anything else.

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Kaldaien

The only thing special about Bose is/used to be that they would take a microphone into the car and test out the acoustic properties of the interior space and piece out a speaker system to match. Of course, this was done while the car was stationary, and Nissan vehicles have a lot of road noise across the entire model spectrum. GT-R uses a much more sophisticated Bose system that actually listens for and adapts to external noise, the same sort of thing you find in a Porsche Cayman.

That said, in years past where there was actually a separate Bose audio upgrade (w/ 6 CD changer) available for 370z trims without the tech package (e.g. Nismo), it was pretty darn pointless. Now that the tech package is available in all trim levels, they phased that audio upgrade out and it is largely a moot point - nobody pays an extra ~$4K for the Bose speakers.

bigaudiofanat

They do not do this with every car bose has a system in. If they did they would probably sound better. ONly the higher end models like Infinity and others get this treatment. Even so not even close to what B&W does for their systems or even Rockford

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Kaldaien

Well, if they do it on the Altima (it's listed in their brochure if you ever read it), I kind of figured they would also do it on something nicer like the 370z. But I suppose anything's possible, I mean there's not much sense investing any time/money into something like the Z, which severely lacks any sort of sound insulation.