MachTee
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I wanted to start a new thread to get better exposure to this issue. If you B&O sound system doesn't sound very loud even maxed out at 30, please visit your dealer and have them apply SSM49737. I'm not sure if this is only an issue with the B&O only or if it can also affect the standard sound system. I will just repost what I posted on the other thread here:
I just had the dealer reprogram the DSP, per SSM49737. The difference it made is absolutely night and day. How Ford missed this during production is a mystery, but I am very glad there's a fix.
As I said before, my car had absolutely no punch (very thin sounding) to the sound at any volume level, and even maxed out at level 30, it was not very loud at all especially when playing music through CarPlay. In fact, I could not hear Siri read a text to me while it was raining one night. And the subwoofer basically made no sound before. Now it is thumping.
Post update, level 20 was already too loud. At volume level 5, it already produced a punchy sound, very full sounding, way fuller than maxed out pre-update. Even the highs are much better. The surround mode actually does something now. When enabled, the voice is concentrated in the center channel speaker, which I wasn't even sure made any sound at all.
I think I read a few posts of other owners also complained of the volume being too low even maxed out. I will start a new thread on this, maybe it'll have better visibility in a new thread so more owners will get this addressed. My car went from the worst sounding car audio system I've had to one of the best post update.
And the added bonus is now I have the cool thumping chimes that come from the audio system, instead of the tiny beeps from the instrument cluster.
edit: added affected build date range as not tobother trigger satisfied owners and added workorder.
I just had the dealer reprogram the DSP, per SSM49737. The difference it made is absolutely night and day. How Ford missed this during production is a mystery, but I am very glad there's a fix.
As I said before, my car had absolutely no punch (very thin sounding) to the sound at any volume level, and even maxed out at level 30, it was not very loud at all especially when playing music through CarPlay. In fact, I could not hear Siri read a text to me while it was raining one night. And the subwoofer basically made no sound before. Now it is thumping.
Post update, level 20 was already too loud. At volume level 5, it already produced a punchy sound, very full sounding, way fuller than maxed out pre-update. Even the highs are much better. The surround mode actually does something now. When enabled, the voice is concentrated in the center channel speaker, which I wasn't even sure made any sound at all.
I think I read a few posts of other owners also complained of the volume being too low even maxed out. I will start a new thread on this, maybe it'll have better visibility in a new thread so more owners will get this addressed. My car went from the worst sounding car audio system I've had to one of the best post update.
And the added bonus is now I have the cool thumping chimes that come from the audio system, instead of the tiny beeps from the instrument cluster.
edit: added affected build date range as not to
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