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  1. demick
    I believe you are talking about the small circular grill just to the left of the speedometer. This is for a microphone. I've heard that on cars with the Bose soundsystem, it is a microphone to determine sound level for automatic volume adjustment. It may also be for a handsfree phone microphone, but I'm not sure.
  2. demick
    No doubt that's the best door installation I've seen. Very nice! What's the cutoff freq you are running on the door speakers?
  3. demick
    Here's the Blaupunkt 5 channel amp in the stock amp location. I made an aluminum bracket that tilts the amp back so that the lower surface is accessible (that's where the controls and connections are). It mounts using the same two bolts and lower friction clamp as the stock amplifier.
  4. demick
    I'll take a photo of the installed amplifier tonight. Plenty of power (for me), and sound is good, but the speakers are still a work in progress. The car originally came with the high-end Bose setup, and still has those speakers in the dash and doors. I'm planning on replacing the dash speakers with Boston Acoustics separates. The door Bose speakers are excellent (low pass at 250Hz), so I'm probably keeping those. The rear Bose sub box has had the drivers replaced with Focal 5" subs (crossed over at ~120Hz). I think this will end up being pretty good, but may feel like it's missing the presence of mid and high frequencies from below (250Hz and up is only coming from the dash). But we'll see. One change at a time, and then adjust. It's easy to get a great sounding stereo with the top up. The difficult part is getting it to sound good on the freeway with the top down.
  5. demick
    Something that I haven't really seen anyone mention on amplifiers, is physical size. When I bought my used Boxster it had a giant amplifier that took up the entire front trunk floor. I wanted something that would fit into the general area of the stock amplifier. I found 3 that looked good: Alpine PDX-5 Infinity Kappa Five Blaupunkt THA 555 PNP They are all very compact 5 channel amplifiers. Alpine was a bit expensive. I would have preferred the Infinity, but nobody had it in stock. So I went with the Blau.
  6. demick
    The window switches themselves are just momentary switches. They have nothing to do with the one-touch functionality.
  7. demick
    The Bahntech AutoTopII seems to be a good alternative solution to the expensive SmartTop solution. But even BahnTech seems a bit overpriced at $160 shipped. After all, it's really not that hard to hold your finger on the button for 12 seconds - so it doesn't appear to be worth much to most people. But it would be a nice-to-have. For me, is it worth $50? Yes. $100? Maybe. $150+? Nope.
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