Rear Speakers

[Preloader]

As an audiophile I have learned that when your fader is properly adjusted you should barely notice sound coming from the rear unless you lean back. If your rear levels are too high you'll mess up the whole dynamic over well produced music.

 

[SylviaGirl]

As an audiophile I have learned that when your fader is properly adjusted you should barely notice sound coming from the rear unless you lean back. If your rear levels are too high you'll mess up the whole dynamic over well produced music.

Gee, 'ya think? I too am an audiophile. I'm 52 years old. My name is Mike. I've had cars with both custom and stock systems; too many to count. As a former professional musician, I know all about dynamics.

The FACT is ALL Sonics I tested (including mine) had powerful sound from the rear speakers - hence, my R2 fader setting. Now that has suddenly changed. R7 is barely adequate. Please review my previous facts and comments. I know what I'm talking about. Thanks.

 

[SylviaGirl]

This reply is not to the way the speakers work or do not work but is to state that what happened to you as regards OnStar interrupting is standard and will happen to every OnStar equipped Chevy several weeks after activation and a few weeks before expiration.

The voice is clear and not subject to being unheard, so to that extent OnStar can mess with your settings, but, it will only happen once. This interruption is one of the benefits of driving an OnStar equipped vehicle and could be one reason why I am such a dedicated fan of OnStar.

Laborsmith

Are my previous posts written well enough to understand? There is a PROBLEM.

 

[laborsmith]

I understood there is a problem regarding the settings. My attempt to respond to your concern about OnStar was not meant to address the question about the settings but only my perception that you had a question about OnStar and how it does its marketing.

Please accept my apology for inadequately distinguishing the one from the other when I attempted to answer half of your question. I will leave it to those who know to answer the other half.

Laborsmith

 

[SylviaGirl]

I understood there is a problem regarding the settings. My attempt to respond to your concern about OnStar was not meant to address the question about the settings but only my perception that you had a question about OnStar and how it does its marketing.

Please accept my apology for inadequately distinguishing the one from the other when I attempted to answer half of your question. I will leave it to those who know to answer the other half.

Laborsmith

Fair enough....I too apologize for being a tad aggressive.

 

[laborsmith]

Accepted. I sometimes allow my fan worship of OnStar to color my replies to questions regarding this service.

Laborsmith

 

[Preloader]

Gee, 'ya think? I too am an audiophile. I'm 52 years old. My name is Mike. I've had cars with both custom and stock systems; too many to count. As a former professional musician, I know all about dynamics.

The FACT is ALL Sonics I tested (including mine) had powerful sound from the rear speakers - hence, my R2 fader setting. Now that has suddenly changed. R7 is barely adequate. Please review my previous facts and comments. I know what I'm talking about. Thanks.

I wasn't directing my input towards you or suggesting that you were audio ignorant. However this IS a forum, and more specifically a thread in a forum about rear speakers. I was offering a perspective to the other 10,000+ viewers that may read this and suddenly feel the need to power up the rear.

Hopefully someone that didn't already know how the rears should be leveled will read it and benefit.

 

[jaydrama]

I believe bluetooth calling (and therefore Onstar by extension) makes use of only the front speakers/tweeters, so the rears may be perceived to be off/lacking in such a scenario. This doesn't answer all of the points in the post, but may add to general understanding and assessment.

 

[laborsmith]

Probably front speakers as I recall OnStar uses the center speaker in the dash for the Camaro.

Laborsmith

 

[td11pump]

These are my installed pics. There are plenty of speaker install and radio pics in this and other posts, so this is what the almost finished pics look like. I just have to hide the sub wire and loom the wiring going to the amp and LC6i at the rear seat posts. This is what the system components are.
In Infinity Kappa 5 amp, Audio Control LC6i Pioneer TS-D1602R 6.5 in the front doors and TS-D1702R 6.75 in the rear doors. Subs are Pioneer TS-W2502D2|D4 wired down to 2 ohms. This system rocks!:banana:
If your in the Bronx, N.Y. let me know if you'd like something like this in your sedan or hatchback and we can plan a great system!

 

[SylviaGirl]

I wasn't directing my input towards you or suggesting that you were audio ignorant. However this IS a forum, and more specifically a thread in a forum about rear speakers. I was offering a perspective to the other 10,000+ viewers that may read this and suddenly feel the need to power up the rear.

Hopefully someone that didn't already know how the rears should be leveled will read it and benefit.

Fair enough. BUT, the rears did not initially need any powering up. I thought I explained properly in my posts. Indeed, there is a problem. BTW, fader adjustments in a vehicle are purely a matter of preference. I'll try one more time....my posts clearly describe a chain of events: Rears nice and loud with a good volume compared to the fronts. Minor tweeking resulted in fader R2. NOW, all of a sudden, rears lost nearly all of their original volume. THIS IS A PROBLEM...can anyone else see that? :sadbanana:

 

[Cinsue]

try something like 9-5-12 thats my fav

Thanks for posting this! Using your favorite as a reference, my fav is 9-5-8!

 

[SylviaGirl]

Thanks for posting this! Using your favorite as a reference, my fav is 9-5-8!

Hi....what does 9-5-8 mean? Thank you. I'm still trying to figure out the sudden loss of volume from my rear speakers and the mysterious reset of bass, treble, midrange....but fader did not reset. This is weird. There must be an explanation. When I find out, I'll post my findings for all of you who may have experienced what I have....for members not familiar with the problem, feel free to review all of my posts on the rear speakers thread.

 

[oldertech]

Just to make sure, as it caught me off guard originally, the settings for treble, bass and midrange are separate for every source. So you can have more bass on XM than CD, for example. It's a rather nice feature that can look like a reset instead of a preference for the individual source.

 

[SylviaGirl]

Just to make sure, as it caught me off guard originally, the settings for treble, bass and midrange are separate for every source. So you can have more bass on XM than CD, for example. It's a rather nice feature that can look like a reset instead of a preference for the individual source.

thank you, oldertech....and yes, I am aware of the different T,B,M for each source....my standard FM settings were the ones which were reset to zero somehow, before I delved into XM and CD...and not only were the settings mysteriously reset, the rear speakers dropped in volume - that's when I first noticed the reset! ....this is still one heck of a puzzler!

 

[oldertech]

Just checkin'

 

[MDC]

I have similar bugs with the "presence" of the rear speakers in my LT. Some of you replace them with 6.5 speakers I guess. I own my car for 4 days now and I didn't see all the subtilities in it. I have a question and it may be a challenge. Can 6x9 speakers be installed in doors, rear location or elsewhere? I have 4 JBL sitting in their original package and I want to use them!

 

[SylviaGirl]

Hi Everyone,

I opened a case with GM about the mystery of the rear speakers volume loss.

 

[TheFallenAngel12]

My rear speakers are non-existant! I paid to have a 6 speaker sound system when i got my LT2 Sedan back in march and i was very disappointed with the sound system. I basically have 4 speakers as the 2 rear door speakers you might as well say dont even work! I did a little test to see how well the rear ones were after my friend mentioned he couldnt hear anything from the back seat speakers one day. So i put in a CD, turned to a song that had a nice mixture of qualitys of music to it. Turned it up to 18 with everything set to normal settings, fade in middle, Bass on 9 or 10 cant quite remember, Treble on 8 and mid-range on 5 or 6. It was nice and loud, could hear everything clearly. Nice bass hitting for a stock system. Then as the song was playing turned the fade all the way to the rear still on 18, and omg what a difference. it was like i turned down the volume to 5! What a drop in volume! so yeah, there is something majorly wrong with the rear speakers in these cars.
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As for the sudden loss of prefrence control settings, i have never experienced that with my sonic. everything stays to where i put the settings. Best of luck to you on that one.

 

[Stubby]

Usually, the first thing I do with any new car is replace the sound system. Chevy is not known for great audio in their vehicles, though the Cruze loaner they gave me for a couple days sounded okay. The Sonic though, sadly is one of the worst "premium" sound systems I have ever heard. The radio, though it has a lot of great options is gutless. The speakers are really crap. The frond components have very little freq response and it sounds like the tweeters are pointing in the wrong direction. Moving the rear speakers from the rear deck to the doors, along with having crap speakers, makes them nearly inaudible, not to mention limiting their bass response to "0". The lack of a subwoofer makes their "premium" sound system sound very lacking overall.
Chevy did great with making the car modern looking, both on the exterior and the interior, but on the audio end, they got to shape it up. Having all those nice stereo options and 6 speaker sound is very useless if no one really want to keep it.
That's just my opinion. Hopefully the Chevy people will listen to the owners.