Tablet Head Unit

[Rico001]

Originally Posted by ryaleon

Did you bypass the bose amp

that is the question I have too,, do you ,or did you kill the Bose amp and speakers too.

I really love Bose for surround sound in the home but the 2003 Hummer Bose is crappy and has no bass or highs either imo

~Richard

[guruerror]

No. I kept the Bose amp and speakers. I used a generic harness for a GM WITHOUT Bose so I could avoid using one of those interface modules (the ones designed to maintain the factory chimes , OnStar, and whatnot). I recall having to adjust some of the pin locations, but it was a piece of cake once I had the pin-out diagrams for both cables.

So my head unit wires directly to the line ins on the Bose. Works great! Loud! No engine whine with RPMs. Search 'carpc' on the forum and you should find my thread that has more details.

Regarding the Bose quality...the 03s had a different Bose then the later models. I forget all of the differences between the two.

[ryaleon]

I know the Bose in my 04 was awful. The Bose in the 08 is much improved but still too quiet for me.

[jsbihn]

just to chime in here for second on Bose for cars.
I had a friend who work for Bose and he told me that the technology that goes into the home stuff isnt the technology that goes into the car stuff.

basically what was said is that you are just getting very little technology with regular speakers using the Bose name. In the older 300zx that came with Bose units, it was exactly that. the horrible headunit failed so I replaced it with a simple 100 dollar pioneer unit (which was actually an upgrade - serious had more features and such), but the speakers were a nightmare. crappy speakers in a crappy plastic enclosure each individually amp'ed.
once I bypassed the amp and played it off the headunit they actually sounded better then they ever had.
thats when my friend told me that most "big company" car stereo upgrades arent worth the 1000 plus bucks you pay at the dealer.
He said it is better to get no stereo, spend 500-1000 bucks and get a much better aftermarket setup with a sub.

just my two cents

[ryaleon]

could not agree more with that. I swapped the bose speakers in my Denali for some $30 Sony Walmart ones. Vast improvement.

[PzYkED]

Been looking for the same thing myself. Was thinking about mounting an android tabled but doing some searching on the subject i found this:

http://ca-fi.com/en/

Looks very promising. Search for it on youtube and you will find lots of videos of their systems.

[jsbihn]

Wholley Smokes 700-1000 bucks?
Kind of defeats the purpose of feature rich AND economical