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el Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 12
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: How LOUD is your speaker on i3? |
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Mine is fairly loud but fail to hear directions if i have radio on, even pretty quiet.
Is my device faulty or is this common? |
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Lester_Burnham Frequent Visitor
Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Mine is LOUD.
At motorway speeds with the radio on, 3 tends to be sufficient. Maybe on 4 is the radio / stereo is loud.
5 is too LOUD for me. |
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el Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Was thinking...do you by any chance use the power lead or batteries, would this make a difference do you think?
On '5' mine is loud (fully charged batteries) but wouldn't say too loud, do you think I could have a faulty product?? When on motorway I have to listen to it quite hard.
Just so you know, on 4, with no backgroud noise, the volume is like a quiet speaking voice. |
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Ash10 Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: Feb 19, 2005 Posts: 478
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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el wrote: | Was thinking...do you by any chance use the power lead or batteries, would this make a difference do you think? |
It will be much louder if you use external power intead of batteries. |
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el Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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Ok thanks for that, I will try it tonight! |
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zogman Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 1417 Location: swindon uk
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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the speaker is on the bottom of the i3 ,try not cover it ...as mentioned before , on car power the i3 is much louder than on batteries... _________________ *************************** |
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matb Frequent Visitor
Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 258
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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as zogman said
uncover its bottom and put 12v through it that will make it shout |
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bumpkin Frequent Visitor
Joined: Feb 08, 2006 Posts: 264 Location: Herefordshire
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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matb wrote: | put 12v through it that will make it shout |
Scream and pop! The i3 runs on USB 5v. _________________ Chas
Garmin i3, Quest & StreetPilot 2720 with GTM10 |
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matb Frequent Visitor
Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 258
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: |
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far cop guv but "watts" a few volts between mates. :P |
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Gerco Occasional Visitor
Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Posts: 25
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Check here
[http://www.fastmute.de/vers02_engl/index2.php?id=&parent=&versendet=]
Much better with more power and more features.
Designed for any car radio.
You get your voice commands highly amplified (10 W) out of your car speakers.
Ultra fast switching mute generator.
This will off your radio during the voice commands and will switch back to your radio in less than 2s after the voice commands has ended.
Gerco |
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Pootle Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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:o Turning your i3 upto 11 :o
I can just see the next corsa club craze....
There you are sat at the traffic lights and a 1.2 corsa pulls up next to you with the tish tish tish thud thud thud of the stereo, then a moments pause...... Then ear bleedingly loud.....
TURN LEFT
You then chuckle to yourself as the corsa is inevitably in the wrong lane. _________________ -----------------------------------
Enjoy? WTF?
(S)ad
(A)nd
(P)roud
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i3, V8, V2.7, WAAS EGNOS.
Audio V2, Simpsons Voice File
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matb Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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Pootle wrote: | :o Turning your i3 upto 11 :o
I can just see the next corsa club craze....
There you are sat at the traffic lights and a 1.2 corsa pulls up next to you with the tish tish tish thud thud thud of the stereo, then a moments pause...... Then ear bleedingly loud.....
TURN LEFT
You then chuckle to yourself as the corsa is inevitably in the wrong lane. |
i then look down from within my 4L range rover, grin and pull them over.
only to ask what firmware they are running. |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15258 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:54 am Post subject: |
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matb wrote: | far cop guv but "watts" a few volts between mates. :P |
terrible jokes like this should be banned from this forum. it's my job as moderator to push to get this rule put in place :D :P
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JinnanTonnix Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Joking aside, (see my other post for my i3 woes ), in my car the i3 seems fairly quiet, but in my wife's car the same i3 is quite loud. So much so that I have to change the volume levels.
The position is about the same, so I can only assume that the shape and material of the dashboard makes a huge difference. |
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Pootle Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 111 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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I have an '03 VW Passat soon to be replaced with a shiney new passat in a subtle inky blue I'm not one for loud paint work....
Sorry that's the best I can do......!
Anyway my point being Passat's have quite soft dashboards compared to say one of my colleagues Honda Accord, so I expect it would be by comparison louder in an Accord? Depends on the frequency and tone some may say cord the i3 for example bongs in....
I have my i3 on 4 all the time and it is plenty loud enough.
Do you mount your i3 the same distance from the dash in both cars? I guess the distance from speaker to hard reflective surface will be a big factor in volume, whether that be too close or too far..... _________________ -----------------------------------
Enjoy? WTF?
(S)ad
(A)nd
(P)roud
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i3, V8, V2.7, WAAS EGNOS.
Audio V2, Simpsons Voice File
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