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i saw this over on the edmunds boards. anyone eevr tried it and if so, how much difference are we talking about?
thanks.
here is the post:
"I am on my second 9-5, had a 99 SE and now a 05 Aero Wagon.
Five years later, same car pretty much, surely the same dash and tune box.
Here's a lesson I learned and posted on the board back in 2000 that still has some value to you 9-5 and 9-3 owners.
The Harmon Kardon Stereo Amp is factory present to less than one third of the gain. For example, lets you you have an amplifier in your house, but your fixed on level number "9" out of "30" on the volume knob and don't now how to increase the volume (watts). The Saab manual fails to address this and calls it this the Start Volume? That is wrong. This is the AMP gain. So how do you raise the gain to get the subwoofer cranking and some watts to this fantastic stereo which as good as the Mark Levison in the Lexus (also made by Harmon, same amp, don't let the old brand cache of Mark Levison, Clarion, JBL, Infinity, etc, fool you, they are all Harmon International).
Ok, Here we go.
1) Turn your car on, stereo off.
2) Hit the weather band button and turn on the stereo at the same time.
The manual was wrong on my 99, wrong on my 05, it says hit the station band button. This will just move the sound around to each speaker for a test, kinda like testing surround sound.
3) The read out will say start volume of "9"
4) This is a waste of a good tune box, so increase the gain to about "25" by turning the volume dial up.
5) Wait ten seconds, turn your radio off, repeat, make sure the start (or actually gain is set at 25). Now you have a couple hundred watts moving to your speakers versus 90. You do not want to go up to 30 *the max), this will make the amp clip if you turn it up too loud, which may blow your speakers. If under warranty, don't be too concerned, the speakers are covered and the techs do not even know this feature at any Saab Dealer.
6) Finally, if you can't hear the difference, audio is not your bag, turn it back to the factory preset and be happy, its the stereo you thought you had and bought.
If happy, glad I helped, if you can't hear a difference, you need to stick to the A.M. dial and talk radio, but please don't bitch. I know HK units, the Sweedes just confuse start and gain and the manual.
Hope it makes your ride more enjoyable."
posted by 207.65.16...
, Sat, 6 May 2006 14:55:52, Thu, 4 May 2006 18:18:56
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