Audiophiles - What is the Best Sound Settings for Music?

[uberpat]

As the title states, I'm looking for suggestions of the best audio settings I can set in my 2025 MME Premium with the B&O sound system. I am not looking for aftermarket upgrades, but just which settings you've found sound best using only the stock settings. Thanks!

• Balance/Fade
• High
• Mid
• Low
• anything else?

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[AnimalChin]

There is no setting that can make Her American Dawn sound good.

 

[uberpat]

There is no setting that can make Her American Dawn sound good.

lol very helpful. thanks.

 

[JoanS]

IHO, that's a very personal thing. Adjust it to where it sounds good to you.

 

[uberpat]

IHO, that's a very personal thing. Adjust it to where it sounds good to you.

Fair enough. Whenever there are settings like this available for speakers though, I like to get people's opinions on what they found provides the best experience.

 

[HuntingPudel]

It's highly dependent on the audio you're listening to (or at least to me it is). Generally, I have the Beosonic equalizer activated and have the cursor just contacting the top of the "m" in "Warm." I do sometimes move it around for some songs. For talk radio I don't really care where I put it, so I just leave it wherever I previously had it. ?‍?

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

It's highly dependent on the audio you're listening to (or at least to me it is). Generally, I have the Beosonic equalizer activated and have the cursor just contacting the top of the "m" in "Warm." I do sometimes move it around for some songs. For talk radio I don't really care where I put it, so I just leave it wherever I previously had it. ?‍?

Same (though my typical Beosonic setting is a bit different, and I never listen to talk radio - or any radio, really)

 

[Mach-Lee]

That’s the sweet spot for me:

 

[Bonehead]

Skip the Beosonic. Just use the regular equalizer with a traditional "smile" setting, bumping up the treble & bass a bit, and move the fader a couple of notches towards the rear.

 

[profdraper]

As the title states, I'm looking for suggestions of the best audio settings I can set in my 2025 MME Premium with the B&O sound system. I am not looking for aftermarket upgrades, but just which settings you've found sound best using only the stock settings. Thanks!

• Balance/Fade
• High
• Mid
• Low
• anything else?

Personally & as an audio production specialist of some 40 years now - I find this is one of the best in-car sound systems I have heard. Part of this I believe is to do with the car design in the first place: the acoustics thought that went in the panels that house speakers & the front sound bar in particular.

Specifically, this is closer to what we call 'critical listening' & is something the production artform tries to achieve across multiple genres & contexts, eg, from film music, to jazz, classical, pop, rock & the rest. No so easy to do & some of which is experience, some in studio acoustics & speaker design.

Back to the point: I find the MME sounds system only needs minimal tweaks:
raise the bass level a little;
position slighlty back into the cabin;
perhaps also use the spatial setting.

Finally, your choice of music might be a little wider than usual to tweak for 'critical listening' across genres, ie, loud doof doof isn't really a good staring point (little dynamics, over-hyped bass & top end etc0.

I'd start with DAB+ radio (or whatever is termed in your region), then try variously jazz, classiclal, some acoustic music then get happy with how all that dials in. Then turn back to your own music styles you want to play.

Remember that squeezed, lossy codecs used in platforms like Spotify, Amazon etc do zero for these judgements in the first instance (slighlty better but still lossy codecs with Apple Music). Best to judge in the first instance would be full bandwidth .wavs on a stick ripped from CD. Failing that, DAB+ is useful.

 

[uberpat]

Personally & as an audio production specialist of some 40 years now - I find this is one of the best in-car sound systems I have heard. Part of this I believe is to do with the car design in the first place: the acoustics thought that went in the panels that house speakers & the front sound bar in particular.

Specifically, this is closer to what we call 'critical listening' & is something the production artform tries to achieve across multiple genres & contexts, eg, from film music, to jazz, classical, pop, rock & the rest. No so easy to do & some of which is experience, some in studio acoustics & speaker design.

Back to the point: I find the MME sounds system only needs minimal tweaks:
raise the bass level a little;
position slighlty back into the cabin;
perhaps also use the spatial setting.

Finally, your choice of music might be a little wider than usual to tweak for 'critical listening' across genres, ie, loud doof doof isn't really a good staring point (little dynamics, over-hyped bass & top end etc0.

I'd start with DAB+ radio (or whatever is termed in your region), then try variously jazz, classiclal, some acoustic music then get happy with how all that dials in. Then turn back to your own music styles you want to play.

Remember that squeezed, lossy codecs used in platforms like Spotify, Amazon etc do zero for these judgements in the first instance (slighlty better but still lossy codecs with Apple Music). Best to judge in the first instance would be full bandwidth .wavs on a stick ripped from CD. Failing that, DAB+ is useful.

thank you! This is helpful information.

 

[ESJB]

I'd start with DAB+ radio (or whatever is termed in your region), then try variously jazz, classiclal, some acoustic music then get happy with how all that dials in. Then turn back to your own music styles you want to play.

Remember that squeezed, lossy codecs used in platforms like Spotify, Amazon etc do zero for these judgements in the first instance (slighlty better but still lossy codecs with Apple Music). Best to judge in the first instance would be full bandwidth .wavs on a stick ripped from CD. Failing that, DAB+ is useful.

It's largely academic (OP is in North America where they don't have DAB+) but I'd caution against using DAB+ for critical listening. Depending on where you are in the world, it's compressed heavily with bitrates between 16 and 64 kbit HE-AAC.

 

[first_EV_is_a_MME]

I flip-flopped between having it one dot towards the back, but eventually settled with it centered. It really is up to you, but what I found was similar to profdraper said- I use the 'surround' mode, have the bass up to 5/6, treble just +1 and center is +1 if I remember. But it depends on many things - your ears, the music you like, the source, the model year of your car. Recent years have some issue with the tweeters being too harsh. I have a 22 which does not have BEOSonic if that matters.

 

[Stephentsmall]

but

No one else here could possibly answer that question for you. Play with the settings. There are no wrong or right settings your ears, your car your preferences. Good luck. I still ocassionally try to tweak my settings in the car and at home. Even room correction at home isn't a perfect science. I still change settings there.

 

[uberpat]

I get that it is all personal, but like chocolate chip cookies, it helps to sample other people’s recipes to determine the best one for yourself

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