Small Tomato

I have this L7 system in my E60, it sounds awful/wierd before tuning a bit on the equalizer.
After the tune up, it's much better.

bimmernic

Hi, does anyone have any recommendation for the equalizer settings for the Hi Fi Professional (DIRAC) system for someone who listens mainly to classical and jazz with some pop/vocals. Having just taken delivery, I know I should wait for the system to break in first but would like to hear from others who have experienced the system. Many thanks.

pharding

If you value audio quality I would definitely get a SOP September car with new I-Pod connection that is digital instead of the current analog connection that is going away. Their are other goodies on the SOP September F10s.

bimmernic

Unfortunately, its a bit too late for me.

As for the direct digital out, do you know if the DAC section of the BMW head unit would be better than the DAC section of the iPod Classic? The BMW NA press release indicates that the new iPod connection is not retrofitable but I am hoping that at some stage it may be possible, if the DAC section in the head unit is indeed better. Thanks.

BRAD

Can you clarify what SOP September means- I assume it refers to production after sept. but what does it stand for. Also, what goodies???

Scandic24

I just hate those 3 letter acronyms sometimes... ;-)
Would have been nice with a quick link or a hovering helptext for every acronym with a short explanation of what it stands for.

higher

The standard sound system in my 2008 E61 is appalling, the worst sound system I ever had in any car I owned. Even our standard VW Touran sound system is at least x3 as good and the Touran is a box on wheels, costing 50% as much as BMW.

Honestly, BMW should be doing much, much better in this area. I think BMW are well below the medium standard in this class for sound systems, in fact they should be 'blowing-away' the competition. After all it is BMW themselves that talke about 'class-leading' this and 'classs-leading' that.

akhter

Individual High End in e90/e92 is also based on Dirac, not logic7.

Dirac is also the high end system in X5/6 and new 7.

Dirac is considered and upgrade from logic 7.

Scandic24

Yes, DIRAC is also used in the HiFi Professional system for the F10/11.
What puzzles me is that BMW say (in the new options pricelist) that HiFi Prof comes with Dolby Prologic surround!?! I've got HiFi Prof and a "surround" checkbox in the iDrive, but nothing that says Dolby Prologic...
AFAIK Dirac provides the technology for "room acoustics compensation", not for "surround sound".

I'm very curious to know more about the BMW audio system.

gorban

In this thread http://f10.5post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=403900 Carl_D is supplying documents from Dirac. A couple of years old but there Dirac states that the suround function for BMW cars are not supplied by Dirac.