r11
Veteran Member
In addition to omitting the Play/Pause control on the steering wheel, there seems to be a more serious issue here.
While listening to one of my Sinatra favs: "Thats life", while having my Galaxy SII paired through VW's own BT implementation, I noticed that the music sounded weird.
In the beginning the Old Blue Eyes goes "that's life !" and then the girls in the chorus repeat that, at may be 80% of the volume.
Guess what, you can not even hear the chorus at all. As if VW's BT somehow clips one of the 2 stereo channels down to almost nothing. Nothing I do with settings in VW menus or on my phone seems to help. Same issue when I use a different player on the phone.
When I play the same tune using same player, but going through "Kensington LiquidAux" bluetooth adapter, using VW's "Aux" input, it plays perfectly, no issues at all.
The issue, of course, is not specific to this tune, all of the music sounds weird like that .
On a funny note I drove from NJ to PA yesterday, while listening to music through VW's bluetooth and got to PA (100 mile drive) with a headache that I couldn't explain ... now I know it is due to listening to only 1/2 of what was on those tracks.
It is not like the music sounds like out of balance (coming out of left or right speaker) but it seems that VW's BT A2DP implementation somehow manages to clip one of the stereo channels coming in, then it amps whatever is left, mixes it and dishes it out through car speakers.
*** !?
To preempt the "tough luck, burn your music to CDs and/or copy to an SD card etc etc" comments , I luvez me music on me phone - this way she travels with me, no matter the car I use ....
While listening to one of my Sinatra favs: "Thats life", while having my Galaxy SII paired through VW's own BT implementation, I noticed that the music sounded weird.
In the beginning the Old Blue Eyes goes "that's life !" and then the girls in the chorus repeat that, at may be 80% of the volume.
Guess what, you can not even hear the chorus at all. As if VW's BT somehow clips one of the 2 stereo channels down to almost nothing. Nothing I do with settings in VW menus or on my phone seems to help. Same issue when I use a different player on the phone.
When I play the same tune using same player, but going through "Kensington LiquidAux" bluetooth adapter, using VW's "Aux" input, it plays perfectly, no issues at all.
The issue, of course, is not specific to this tune, all of the music sounds weird like that .
On a funny note I drove from NJ to PA yesterday, while listening to music through VW's bluetooth and got to PA (100 mile drive) with a headache that I couldn't explain ... now I know it is due to listening to only 1/2 of what was on those tracks.
It is not like the music sounds like out of balance (coming out of left or right speaker) but it seems that VW's BT A2DP implementation somehow manages to clip one of the stereo channels coming in, then it amps whatever is left, mixes it and dishes it out through car speakers.
*** !?
To preempt the "tough luck, burn your music to CDs and/or copy to an SD card etc etc" comments , I luvez me music on me phone - this way she travels with me, no matter the car I use ....