Why does it sound like this?

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So I have a 2016 Tacoma limited with the JBL audio upgrade and let me tell you, for a factory system it’s the best out of all the vehicles I owned. Now fast forwarding to the Supra which also is JBL has TWO of the subwoofers that the Tacoma has and it not even close in comparison. If I had to say, it feel somewhat extremely restricted. Maybe there’s a button i don’t know about? Or is this really what it is? If so why??? Why two vehicles from the same company with the same audio but perform like their opposites?
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So I have a 2016 Tacoma limited with the JBL audio upgrade and let me tell you, for a factory system it’s the best out of all the vehicles I owned. Now fast forwarding to the Supra which also is JBL has TWO of the subwoofers that the Tacoma has and it not even close in comparison. If I had to say, it feel somewhat extremely restricted. Maybe there’s a button i don’t know about? Or is this really what it is? If so why??? Why two vehicles from the same company with the same audio but perform like their opposites?
They arent JBL subs though. Someone ripped it apart and they are harmon/kardon subs.
 
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Oh thanks that explains a lot.


I’m not looking to upgrade aftermarket. I just wished it was better.
 

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My biggest complaint with the audio system had more to do with vibrational noise that the subs create rather than the sound quality of the system itself...

After eliminating most of the low freq vibrational problem areas by adding sound deadening material and playing with the audio EQ settings, the system sounds fairly decent....

In addition, removing the low freq faux engine noise (with Bimmercode) greatly improved sound quality as well...

Much of this type of discussion (improving OE sound quality) can be found in the link to the thread I posted above....
 

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I had a 2016 Tacoma with the JBL system as well — it was nearly as good as the Mark Levinson system I had in the IS-F. The Supra system is garbage compared to those two. I almost thought something must be defective, but no, that is how it is.

One thing I did that helped was to turn off the adaptive exhaust sound that kicks in when in sport mode. Had to get a Bluetooth obd adapter and use BimmerCode for that though (annoying you have to code the ecu to do that shit — at least I was also able to set it up to automatically start the car in sport individual mode so there’s that). For whatever reason the exhaust sound (which didn’t sound bad necessarily) really fucks with any music you’re playing.
 

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As much as I like the new Supra, the audio system is the down part so hopefully an aftermarket sound system should fix that!
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