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Feb 28, 2011 | 08:16 AM

Deano

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I upgraded my sound system by adding three amplfiers. Now my system chimes and the voice commands are extremely loud. I guess that the NAV lady plays through speakers that are not part of the stereo system because her volume is unchanged.

Is there a way to lower the volume of the voice commands and system chimes? Can the dealer do this? This must have impacted some of you with aftermarket sound systems.

Thanks,

Dean

Feb 28, 2011 | 08:33 AM

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turn down the sensitivity on your amplifiers and just turn the source music volume up instead.

Feb 28, 2011 | 12:08 PM

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Check the idrive for "chime" volume and I am thinking the NAV has to have its own volume as well (I dont have nav but my Tahoe does and you can set the Nav seperate from music)...

Feb 28, 2011 | 12:11 PM

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activate the voice activated commands and while they are speaking turn down the volume knob ....lol it will set the commands etc to a low tone. Let me know if that fixed ur issue....

Feb 28, 2011 | 04:15 PM

Deano

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Originally Posted by AchtungE60

activate the voice activated commands and while they are speaking turn down the volume knob ....lol it will set the commands etc to a low tone. Let me know if that fixed ur issue....

YES! It worked!

Now, I tried this on the chime tones, but it didn't work. There don't seem to be any chime volume settings in the idrive. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks again,

Dean