You have to take their descriptions with a grain of salt though. It all sounds great and wonderful in the literature, and then you listen to the system and you're like: Okay, where did all this R&D go?

CA&E has an interesting article on their site where they featured two cars that is owned by a guy who does tuning for OEM stereo systems. What he has to say is an interesting insight to the world of how an OEM system gets designed and tuned. All kinds of fingers are in the pot so to speak. How the engineers like a system to sound, how the manf. wants the system in that brand of car to sound for the projected buying audience, what the bean counters cut back in forms of R&D time, product quality, design issues on where speakers can be placed vs. what the interior design team wants, etc. A ton of compromises really. They might like the sound of that $30k system and took a zillion measurements but that still doesn't mean it will sound good because of all the restraints placed on them.

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