iPod / iPhone & 'Basic' Hifi

[Bing]

I installed and updated my intravee/Alpine gubbins recently, and as a result have been enjoying a much wider range of music in my car (though I have inadvertently provided the means to Wee Bing to take control at a moment's notice :x )

When I just had the CD player the 'tone' settings were easy as I have the basic system - bass nearly max, treble about halfway, volume up, play.

I am finding it is a little more difficult to get the sound right with my iPhone - at the moment the iPhone EQ is switched off, settings as per above, and the sound is ok, but not quite as crisp / aurally satisfying as it was before. When I put the iPhone EQ to Rock, or Dance or whatever suits (as I normally would when I am listening to it on headphones) the volume is a lot less and while the sound is slightly better it's still not great. So my questions are :

1. Should I use the iPhone EQ at all ?
2. If I should, then where do I set the bass and treble on the head unit for best effect ?

Any advice greatly appreciated - otherwise I will just leave as-is and turn it up real loud


Oh, one more question for intravee owners - I tried to set the indicators to flash when I lock / unlock the car, but instead they just come on for 10 secs, which looks totally retarded. Can you set them to flash through the intravee, or is that a 'key-only' function ? Ta

 

[markeg]

Sounds like you have the wrong car set for the indicators to do that, Bing.


Tapatalking...

 

[PerryGunn]

The minimum 'on time' for the Intravee controlled lights seems to be 10 sec

My indicators flash when I lock the car but that's a car-coding option, I use the Intravee to light up all 3 brake lights when I unlock the car but can't set it as less than 10 secs.

 

[Bing]

Hmmm. Ok, ta boys.

Any ideas on managing my noise ?

 

[PerryGunn]

Hmmm. Ok, ta boys.

Any ideas on managing my noise ?

This should keep her quiet

 

[Bing]

:rofl:

 

[markeg]

Have you tried a third party equaliser like EQ?


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[Bing]

Have you tried a third party equaliser like EQ?


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Is that an app that I can download ? I am ok with the iPod EQ for starters, I just wondered where I should set the bass and treble on the car stereo in order to allow the EQ to do it's job. Do I just set them both in the middle position ? I think I need o do some more buggering around

 

[PerryGunn]

Have you tried a third party equaliser like EQ?


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Is that an app that I can download ? I am ok with the iPod EQ for starters, I just wondered where I should set the bass and treble on the car stereo in order to allow the EQ to do it's job. Do I just set them both in the middle position ? I think I need o do some more buggering around

Remember, the iPod is playing MP3, a lossy format, and what sounds OK through headphones doesn't always sound as good through speakers - the type of encoding and the bitrate will have a huge effect on the in-car sound. In order to test this properly, I'd make some high quality MP3s from an album you know well, use something like VBR at 320k which, to our old ears, should be all but indistinguishable from the original.

Play the original CD in the car and adjust to the way you like it, then with the iPod EQ turned off, play the MP3 version and adjust the car tone/bass by ear until it sounds as close as possible to the CD

 

[markeg]

Have you tried a third party equaliser like EQ?


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Is that an app that I can download ? I am ok with the iPod EQ for starters, I just wondered where I should set the bass and treble on the car stereo in order to allow the EQ to do it's job. Do I just set them both in the middle position ? I think I need o do some more buggering around

yep, apps called EQu. I use it for getting far better control on the equaliser - find the iPhone one's a bit basic


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[Bing]

Thanks guys. I'll have a play - what Perry suggested is pretty much what I've done with an original CD vs the iPod. I'll have a look at the app Mark, if nothing else for when I am just using headphones.

 

[markeg]

Did you solve the indicator issue, Bing? IIRC I had the same when using the wrong car setting, think mines now set as an E46 (will check) and the 4 flashes mode works fine. Mines pre-facelift though..

 

[Bing]

Mark - if you could check that would be great. Once I had updated the firmware there was an eXX / Z4 option, so I just chose that, figuring it would all work. I'll have a look in a bit - can't remember what the XX was.

 

[markeg]

just checked - mine's set as E46 Type 1 in the Vehicle Type...Think you have to restart the intravee if you reset the vehicle type, though I may be wrong (Diagnostics, reboot)

BTW - ignore what I said about EQu, just tested it with the intravee and makes no difference (although great with headphones) :headbang: Looks like I'm stuck with "Bass Boost" as a setting.

 

[PerryGunn]

just checked - mine's set as E46 Type 1 in the Vehicle Type...Think you have to restart the intravee if you reset the vehicle type, though I may be wrong (Diagnostics, reboot)

BTW - ignore what I said about EQu, just tested it with the intravee and makes no difference (although great with headphones) :headbang: Looks like I'm stuck with "Bass Boost" as a setting.

I wondered about this as, if the iPod connector gives a true 'line out' signal, the device EQ shouldn't have any effect - but Apple being Apple they may have ignored the normal conventions and done things their way

 

[markeg]

Yep, EQ setting does affect the sound, just ran through a number of settings whilst trying to get EQu working. But apple being apple, you can only use the inbuilt EQ for dock connections, others only work through the headphones, so would be fine for an AUX IN connection :roll:

 

[PerryGunn]

Nothing like consistency...

 

[NeilP]

Have you tried to use the music player app by Denon?

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/denon-audio/id520604518?mt=8