2014 A7 Prestige Speaker Buzzing Issue
02-27-2019, 12:17 AM
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2014 A7 Prestige Speaker Buzzing Issue
Posting this picture of my car just because it’s awesome.
I have a 2014 A7 Prestige with Bose speakers. I’ve noticed that there’s a buzzing sound with some mid range to high range musical crescendos, as well as when listening to audio books and podcasts. The service department at the dealership says that they don’t see any codes coming up, but frankly they’ve proven to me time and again to not know what they’re talking about. Any ideas what I should do? It’s really annoying and I’d like to get it fixed.
02-27-2019, 04:39 AM
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A sound quality issue is subjective and will not throw a code, that is reserved for hard failures that can be defined and measured. Do you have it from all speakers, from some or only one?
02-28-2019, 09:15 AM
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Very helpful, thank you! Do you think I should try to do it myself? Is there any video guidance you know of? If not, do you think I should go third party sound business, or back to the dealer service department that I don't really trust?
03-08-2019, 02:11 PM
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The problem you need to consider is this:
An experienced independent third party car audio business will do a lot better job on the audio system. That is their specialty, that's all they do, but they may not have access to the Audi "tips and tricks".
An Audi authorized service center will have all the information and specialty tools to work on the car interior, but may not understand and/or appreciate your audio quality concerns.
03-12-2019, 05:15 PM
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I can't really answer that, since I don't know you and/or your capabilities and experience. Replacing a speaker is a very simple job. Getting to the speaker (depending on its location) is a different story, which involves removing (and reattaching) trim pieces, panels, brackets etc.
The problem you need to consider is this:
An experienced independent third party car audio business will do a lot better job on the audio system. That is their specialty, that's all they do, but they may not have access to the Audi "tips and tricks".
An Audi authorized service center will have all the information and specialty tools to work on the car interior, but may not understand and/or appreciate your audio quality concerns.
The problem you need to consider is this:
An experienced independent third party car audio business will do a lot better job on the audio system. That is their specialty, that's all they do, but they may not have access to the Audi "tips and tricks".
An Audi authorized service center will have all the information and specialty tools to work on the car interior, but may not understand and/or appreciate your audio quality concerns.
DIY if you have right speaker
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/a6-c7-platform-discussion-194/buzzing-center-dash-speaker-2012-a6-bose-system-2902593/page2/
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09-05-2020, 03:17 AM
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Finally figured it out
I found someone good and took it to their shop. Turns out, the grill of the speaker was rattling. They did some great high quality dampening work and it’s perfect now. Not too expensive. Sooooooo happy to finally have this fixed.
09-05-2020, 05:10 PM
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I was gonna say, that center dash speaker cover tends to rattle. Mine does as well but mostly on a blue tooth phone call. I just have not taken the time to pull up the speaker grill and add some felt dots into it
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