Just taken delivery of my new Kamiq 1.0SE & not happy with the sound from the Bolero stereo. The tweeters sound harsh.

No adjusting of the EQ can make the top end sound sound sweet (the sound in my previous Yeti SE Drive was really good)

Have other people found this issue ?

Assume the tweeters are cheap & need replacing with better quality ones ?

Is this an easy job or do I have to take to a dealer ?

Thanks

I have the same problem with my MY18 Superb with Columbus. The pathetic 3 band EQ is set with treble almost to minimum. Mid is pretty useless as there seems to be a black hole or bad response somewhere in the mid range of the speaker system. Varying degrees of harshness with the mid control.

 

Columbus is like a £1600 upgrade option over Amundsen, never mind Bolero and it only has 3 band EQ?

 

I seen pics here on Briskoda that the tweeter crossover is a simple electrolytic (probably non bipolar!) capacitor badly soldered directly to the tweeter. I personally think the cap (6.8uf springs to mind) is too large a value/ wrong type and the tweeter is being grossly overdriven as well as not crossing at the correct frequency. I doubt the main speakers have an equivalent crossover to cut the top drive. Primitive setup with terrible mid.

 

My solution is to simply turn the radio off, most of the stations just pump out the same old payola dirge, with verbal diarrhea from shouty DJs who constantly laugh at their own non jokes and the most annoying ads that seem to go on forever. Who wants to listen to that? 

 

Gone are my days of designing and building high quality amps and speakers when I used to be in a band. No way I am stripping my newish car to get to a tweeter. I've seen how botched the speaker installations are in older cars. And the tweeters are possibly glued in nowadays or plastic melted over pins.

 

The speakers are probably Chinese ****e anyway.

 

Here's an Octavia 3 guide to tweeter modding

 

 

Edited 5 August, 20214 yr by xman

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My solution is to simply turn the radio off, most of the stations just pump out the same old payola dirge, with verbal diarrhea from shouty DJs who constantly laugh at their own non jokes and the most annoying ads that seem to go on forever. Who wants to listen to that? 

Excellent description, couldn't have put it better myself. Turn off the diatribe and listen to the peace.