[lumpydog]

All - I've been messing with the Harman Kardon settings over the past month or so. The default settings are pretty crappy in my opinion, but I realize this stuff is subjective.

My beefs with the default settings:
- 2nd Row and Rear speakers are hard to get "involved"
- Front speaker bias
- 2nd Row and Rear speakers don't output high range at all
- Soundstage/voice is biased to the passenger side (sounds like vocals are coming from the passenger tweeter - maybe due to how each tweeter is aimed).
- No real punch all around.

After messing around with different settings, I found that using Logic 7 Surround with the max (furthest right) surround setting was the best way to get the rear speakers to "get in the game" - especially with regard to bringing out their higher end. But setting the Surround to max biased the speakers to the rear so I needed to use the fader to bring the overall sound back forward a little. To get the sound stage/vocals more centered, I nudged the balance over to the left.

EQ settings, I just messed with until it sounded good to me and had a little more punch. Below are all my settings. If others have settings they like, post them for others to try.

Logice Seven Surround: Enabled
Surround: +2 (all the way to the right)
Treble: +4
Bass: +3
Balance: Left 1
Fader: Left (F) 2
Equalizer:
100khz + 4
200khz + 2
500khz 0
1khz +1
2khz +2
5khz +4
10khz +5

[Doc5513]

Thanks for posting this!

[lumpydog]

Originally Posted by Doc5513

Thanks for posting this!

When I owned my E70, I found a similar thread and it helped.

I'd also recommend tuning your settings listening to:

a) A song you are very familiar with

or

b) A song known to have excellent production and range


I use "Rosanna" by Toto. Not my favorite band or song by a long shot but it's well produced and is an excellent track to make sure you are getting the entire range out of your system.

[denniss]

Thank you. Will try this out.

[Xeno]

With appreciation for this update, for a previous discussion one can go to:

https://g05.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...ight=equalizer

[lumpydog]

Originally Posted by Xeno

With appreciation for this update, for a previous discussion one can go to:

https://g05.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh...ight=equalizer

Yup! PBG's EQ settings were what got me to try different things. I'm not sure if there is really much to carry forward from the F15... speakers will be different, amp will be different, etc. Also that thread didn't cover Surround, Fader, Balance, Treble and Bass settings. Figured I'd dig in a little deeper here!

[lumpydog]

Originally Posted by lumpydog

When I owned my E70, I found a similar thread and it helped.

I'd also recommend tuning your settings listening to:

a) A song you are very familiar with

or

b) A song known to have excellent production and range


I use "Rosanna" by Toto. Not my favorite band or song by a long shot but it's well produced and is an excellent track to make sure you are getting the entire range out of your system.

Another good artist to setup/test against is Steely Dan. Anything produced by them is exceptional recording quality (Hey Nineteen, Peg). Not a favorite band, but another good one to use when trying to dial in a sound system.

[iSlrsX5]

Sounds way better now!

Thank you!!!!

[goten11756]

Definitely gonna try this out! The default settings are definitely subpar~ Thank you!

[nZtiZia]

still waiting on X5MMMMM to post his EQ numbers 😜

[pavloPL]

Great, thanks for settings. Have very similar, just a tip fro iPhone CarPlay users: if you have EQ setup in Spotify or Music app it is working over CarPlay and outputting modified sound to BMW so you might have different results applying lumpydog settings. You would need to disable EQ in iPhone so the settings would produce great results.