Audio related

[CarlW]

I've recently swapped the RCD300 to an RCD510 DAB along with the MDI dock.

Since being able to use the MDI i have noticed that when playing music from my iPhone through the MDI dock the music seems to sound like its vibrating a canny bit and a bit muffled is the only way i can describe it.. Is this normal or could it be down to something faulty? If I'm playing music from a CD it seems fine.

I should say that the drivers side speaker just above the window switches doesn't work so i have planned to replace that too while I'm on with setting the DAB up when the bits come so I'm wondering if the faulty speaker is to blame but then why would it be fine when playing from a CD?..

orrr..

Could it be a firmware problem with the MDI or Headunit as i've read somewhere that some people have updated their MDI firmware to solve an issue with the tracks skipping and the lagging of album names etc..

Also can anyone recommend me some speakers to replace the OEM ones (the ones above the window switches) with or would it be best and more financially best to stick with some used OEM speakers?

Cheers,

Carl.

[xjay1337]

If you are getting speakers not working when using the MDI then the MDI cable or interface is either damaged, faulty or not installed properly.
You will be hard pressed to find a decent 3 way component set up which fits behind the door card of the mids... I bought Hertz ESK163L which larger 16cm and tweeter fitted fine..made a great difference... Although the mids would eventually fit if you really struggled, it's not easy.

While door cards are off I would sound deaden them with acoustic backing.

[CarlW]

If you are getting speakers not working when using the MDI then the MDI cable or interface is either damaged, faulty or not installed properly.
You will be hard pressed to find a decent 3 way component set up which fits behind the door card of the mids... I bought Hertz ESK163L which larger 16cm and tweeter fitted fine..made a great difference... Although the mids would eventually fit if you really struggled, it's not easy.

While door cards are off I would sound deaden them with acoustic backing.

The drivers side mid speaker was broken before i fitted the MDI so thats just something else on my list of things to do but i was just wondering if this affected the sound quality of the MDI when playing music from iPhone?

As i said before, when playing music from a CD, everything sounds fine except of course the dead speaker which needs replacing.

When i play music from my phone through the MDI it sounds okay but sounds like something vibrates more and muffling more. I'm not sure if this is when i've been playing tracks that are actually coming from my phone or whether it just does it when using the spottily app on my phone but i will check again tomorrow and update the thread.

[Matthewsimone]

My system sounds much better on cd than it does thru ipod dock in arm rest!
Not terrible but deffo a difference

[Golf_GT_TDI]

As regards speakers ETON and Rainbow do some factory fit sets