B&O sound system - not so great

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I'm new into a Rapide S with the B&O system and the sound system sounds pretty poor (and Rapide has extra rear room for music depth). Ive had AMs with the premium audio's before and they've sounded superb. Can this B&O deficiency be true (given the 5,000 price difference)?

Or am i missing something re setup?

Thanks

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I'm kind of convinced the Premium Audio is better. You pay for the B&O tweeters and grills but I think it's no better, worse even. I tried a bunch of different configurations today and just can't get it to sound decent.

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The irony is I'm writing this on a HP Elite X3 phone with a fancy silver B&O speaker on the front and that sounds rubbish too.

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AdamV12V said:

Very much - a lot of people seem to assume they can play poor quality input files (typically 128kps mp3 files via Bluetooth streaming) and expect a good system to compensate and a) produce a decent sound output, and b) to perform better than a lower quality system also playing the same poor quality input files. This accounts for a lot of the feedback where people say system X is cr@p, or system A sounds no better than system B.

Basic rule of thumb is that the sound output quality is going to be limited by the lowest quality item in the whole chain.

The other significant point is we all have different ears and different expectations of what sounds "good".

That's a good point and something many folk willl overlook. Thing is, I'm using CDs which are presumably better quality input than any MP3, and they still sound terrible.