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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I do love R4extra
So much more than R4...
Although I know you can hear a difference from your reassuringly expensive placebo-effect high-end cables, so I assume your ears are far more highly developed than mine.
The stereo in my 11 year old Focus sounds fine, the one in my new Peugeot better still.
Ultimately, a moving car must be one of the most horrible environments in which to design an audio system.
The base stereo on most models often isn't great. I have a B&O system in my car (the highest upgrade that was factory fitted) and people tend to comment that it sounds good when they get in. It isn't as good as a system in a proper room, but it's a car - not a great environment for audio anyway.
If in any doubt it's generally cheaper/easier to pay for the upgrade when you order your car rather than to faff about after the fact.
I've no idea what stereo is fitted in my Golf Mk 7, it can't be that expensive, but music on my iPhone (320K MP3 or lossless) fed in via a cable (using the DAC in the car stereo) sounds pretty good for a car.
Some EQ adjustment might work if the drivers are good enough but the standard tone controls are probably rubbish. Ideally you'd want something parametric.
My apologies if I've misremembered.
BMW 3 series saloon - starting price £27,760
BMW 3 series saloon with Russ Andrews in-car audio - starting price £86,995.
If I want to listen to music, then I will choose the songs myself - I don’t want to listen to the choices of an ageing soap star or has been rocker.
The other factor here is of course that @Rocker is in ROI, so he may not be listening to UK stations, and even if he is, the signal may not be great at that distance.
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