Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:59:47 +0300 From: "Patrik" <patrik.ivernopsamam.tmsystems.com> Subject: Re: 9.3 SE audio system
You can switch of the loudness in a 9-3 AS-2 using the radio set-up menu, see the manual for details. Partik Iver Bill Britton <wbrittonnopsame.com> wrote in message news:39906699.B34D32A3nopsamcom... > While I appreciated a couple of the design > refinements over the 97, the sound system was certainly not one of them. It > seems that SAAB decided at some point to enable full-time variable loudness > compensation into this system. I was disgusted at the muddy, thumping bass > coming from the subs. I listen to hard rock like Dream Theater, Creed, and > King's X. I kept having to turn down the bass control substantially for > every CD unless I had the volume up loud enough to cause the Loudness > contour to be near flat. Yuck. What a step backwards. Maybe you can find an > earlier head unit that has a Loudness button on it -- which works just fine > when you want some music in the car but can easily talk over it.