Background drone?

Background drone?

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biggles330d

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Sunday 21st April
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Random question, but does anyone else have a dull background droning noise, fairly low pitched and not loud when driving. It's unrelated to engine revs, sort of increases with speed. When stopped it's not there. I don't think its tyres as it doesn't really change with different road surfaces. My A110 has the standard exhaust.

I think it's always been there since new. I hadn't been out in the car for a while but did 60-70 miles on friday, mix of motorway, a road, b road, not going fast, just normal. Mix of standard and sport mode. Car drives totally fine but once I 'tuned' into the background drone it was there constantly.

It's hard to describe but not a resonance as such, doesn't come and go with speed / revs. I don't think it's wind noise, I don't think it's driveline. The car has 8500 miles on it so it's nothing worn out. I can only think it's a consequence of the aluminium shell and given I hadn't driven the car for a little while it suddenly became obvious. I'm sure it's nothing, but curious to know if anyone else notices something similar?

biggles330d

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Monday 22nd April
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Thanks, that's interesting to see. So, speakers aside (I have the Focal upgrade without sub), did your addition of this different panel in the door noticeably remove the drone? I hadn't considered it might be the doors as it sounded a bit behind my ears but I assume the whole cabin is in effect a sound chamber.

biggles330d

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Monday 22nd April
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Julian, are you selling aftermarket audio kits for the A110 then or is this a professional research project on your own car? I'm quite impressed with the focal audio but presumably there is demand out there for what you are doing? I doubt the original A110 engineering brief dwelled heavily on audio performance as a priority.
Just curious!