The wife is using the F2 at the moment as the roads are bad around here in this weather. Anyone done a speaker uprade? She is used to her Audi Bose system and is a bit disapointed with the GS radio. Anything that will make it a bit better??

See if you can find a written off HSE somewhere and get the Alpine PLII out of it? 58 HSE, auto, lago grey, tints. Mine and my dogs Storm and Sky
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Its probably more down to the crap music she listen's to ,can't really say i find mine bad and i love my music in the motor playing my ipod though the aux port.  Freelander2 GS TD4 Manual in Lago Grey .Roof Mount DVD 9.2''Screen~Window Tints~Parrot CK3100 Bluetooth~Retro Fit Sony Satnav~iPhone Dashmount~Side Steps~Woodco Armrest~Mudflaps~Land Rover Sunglass Holder~LED Interior Lights~Private Plate.Evoque Collected 17th Sept 2012.


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We also have an Audi as t'other car, a TT Quattro also with a Bose. I reckon the LR Alpine PL sounds better than the Audi. I've heard a Bose in a Q7 and its also much better than our TT so I reckon its down to cabin size limiting what can be done. 58 HSE, auto, lago grey, tints. Mine and my dogs Storm and Sky
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The non-DAB radio sounds rubbish though.

My old car with it's non-premium or anything radio sounded much better. Shame you can't retrofit the DAB. 09MY FL2 Td4 XS, Style Pack, Privacy Glass, Martinique Blue.. oh so very blue..

there was someone on here saying he had fitted the dab, as it had been missed off a customers order at LR

he was wanting to offer it to people, for £XXX, but never heard anything since he was told to contact martin re sponsorship for commercial posts

he then said he would post a list of part number up, so we could DIY it

if somebody could find the extra parts needs, I think it is possible on the higher spec audio

surley it must be a modual of somesorts and a interface etc Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Well from the circuit diagrams that were banding about here a while back, looks like at the minimum, you'll need a DAB antenna amplifier and a DAB module. If they can be sourced for on or around the price of the option £200, it'd be worth it.

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Being an Ex DJ, I have never understood the reason for digital audio for this simple reason.....

An ANALOGUE voice, made into a digital recording played back through a digital player with sound emitted through ANALOGUE speakers to be listened to by ANALOGUE ears.....

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Because to keep that analogue signal as good as it was when it entered the mic in the studio, you need to spend thousands upon thousands. If you digitize it, you can keep a relatively good copy of the signal, push it through some pretty mediocre kit (in the grand scheme of things) and not have lost as much by the time it comes out the other end back in analogue. Sadly with the vast majority of analogue signals, they have to be co pressed in order to fit whatever medium they are to travel down - ok in your home stereo, the limits are only the medium of the source and the cables so you don't really have that limit (lets assume you are using vinyl or reel to reel tape or something). But when you're talking radio or compact tapes, there's only so much to play with. Radio in particular only has two methods to transmit an analogue signal, AM and FM. There are other types but there are for digital signals only. FM itself is limited to how much of a signal you can put on that carrier wave. Not to metion that you're inevitably going to lose some of the signal through the air. With DAB, they can compress and correct the data at both ends, thus you get more sound for less bandwidth.

Look at it this way, I could steal the Mona Lisa and give you it (yeah I'm generous).. It would be beautiful and perfect in every way. But then how do I get it to you? Send it in the post? It probably wouldn't look so good at the other end. Or, I could get a really expensive camera and take a picture of it and email it to you. You could tell the difference of course, but you'd still know what the picture looked like and still see that it was beautiful.

I do see your point though. I have heard some amazing things from vinyl, particularly Linn's Sondek LP12, but even now a top example is £7000 second hand! For a turntable! My CD player on the other hand was £1000 second hand. I really would have to concentrate to tell the difference with most recordings.

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So should I upgrade from my 8-track? At work
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I thought there were some questions about DAB, like some stations using very low bit rates, there being no standard plus I've heard it said that current DAB may not last very long.

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When you get old and grey and become and old fart, your hearing loses its effectivnes and then it doesnt matter what music system you have fitted

To be honest I cant really tell the difference from the Alpine in my HSE to the standard system in my last car (BMW), although its good enough for my ears  2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof.
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So should I upgrade from my 8-track?

Funny you should say that CG, I've still got one of those, and it still works ok  ______________________
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Keep the 8 track but consider an upgrade to Fm Medium wave may have had it's day