The cure for factory sound no longer requires major surgery.
CleanSweep® CL441dsp:
Response Correction
Response Correction is the Key:
A huge number of factory-installed sound systems incorporate
non-defeatable (often radical) equalization curves aimed at correcting
the response of factory speaker systems. Many also employ
volume-dependent equalization effects; for example, reducing bass
output at high volume and increasing it at low volume. While these
characteristics might make sense within the limitations of the
factory-installed speaker system, they wreak havoc on sound quality
when a higher performance system is installed. Simple line level
converters cannot correct for this equalization, but CleanSweep® can.
Here are some examples of factory system equalization, from a 2001
Acura® MDX with a factory-installed base system and from a 2002
Volkswagen Jetta® with a Monsoon® factory audio upgrade. In both cases,
CleanSweep® makes a huge difference in sound quality. In each example,
the red line shows the factory unit's frequency response (with all tone
controls set flat) and the blue line shows the frequency response after
CleanSweep® correction. Note how front and rear channels are equalized
differently in the Acura® system and how CleanSweep® is able to correct
the response of each channel independently.