Car audio: Taylor-made high end with VW Passat

You may be familiar with Dynaudio from their HiFi speaker background. Why we write about it is because they’ve recently teamed up with a number of car manufacturers to offer premium stereo upgrades on new models.
The new VW Passat is one of the childs of this new team and it is very impressive indeed.

Instead of mounting a few speakers as an after-thought as a car reaches the final stage in its development, Dynaudio was involved in the design of the total sound system from the very early design stages, working closely with the Volkswagen development team. Being involved so early meant that the Dynaudio engineers could optimise the location, mounting and housing of all components and precision-tailor the amplifiers and associated circuitry in order to achieve the best possible performance.
The end result is a sound system that has been perfectly integrated, both sonically and aesthetically, in the Passat's interior where the unobtrusive Dynaudio logos are the only visible clues to the system's tremendous performance potential. A combination of ten Dynaudio loudspeaker chassis, powered by State-of-the-Art digital amplifiers using Digital Sound Processing (DSP) technology, provide a sound experience not heard previously.

Interestingly there’s no subwoofer in the design but you wouldn’t know that to listen to it. To say it sounds better than the standard stereo is something of an understatement. It is the best standard fit car stereo I’ve ever heard, and it’s completely stealthy. No huge speakers sitting on the parcel shelf, no massive subwoofer taking up your boot space - to the casual observer the stereo is no different to the normal model.

Foursprung, car, audio, VW, Passat, Dynaudio

Source: Dynaudio

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