380W Meridian Advanced Configuration?

[stadidas]

Hello to everyone on the forum! I just picked up my dream 400 Sport this weekend and I have been very much enjoying all of the amazing sounds from its exhaust.

However, one thing I have definitely not been enjoying the sound of is the 380W Meridian system it came fitted with. The speakers themselves seem alright, but the system very noticeably adjusts the volume of songs to try to keep the volume constant, and I have to say it's been doing my head in!

All I can find on the infotainment system is sliders for Treble, Bass, and the Subwoofer, but there doesn't appear to be any more advanced settings for tailoring how the system does or does not mess about with the volume level during playback. Does anybody know if there is some special configuration mode that can be accessed in the infotainment system to be able to configure such things, or am I out of luck and going to have to take the car somewhere to have the system modified?

Any help much appreciated!

 

[XZ4]

I haven't noticed this in mine. Will listen out for it tomorrow.

 

[stadidas]

That's interesting - it's very noticeable in mine, so maybe there's been some software change in mine that is very much not to my taste! I notice it mainly on tracks where the start of the song is quite quiet e.g a single guitar playing. The system seems to raise the volume of this section, and then when the rest of the band comes in it rolls the volume back to try to keep the two consistent.

 

[scm]

I've not noticed that on mine, maybe there's something like AVC under the All Settings menu? I'll check mine tomorrow (if I remember!).

 

[stadidas]

Thank you, that would be much appreciated.

 

[scm]

I remembered! But no sign of anything that would set up an automatic variable volume. Hope you can get to the bottom of it!

 

[KV7785]

Are you connected via usb? Sounds much better than Bluetooth.

 

[Anonymous]

Hello

I think I must be one of the few people who actually like the 380 system ... Just for info I use a USB stick with Wav lossless files and works really well.

I have also discovered the unit will play 192Khz / 24 hi rez files which is a bonus

but the end of the day the car environment is not ideal ... I think the next meridian system up has more trick functions

 

[scm]

I've no complaints about my 380 system, I play "high quality" MP3s through mine. I'd say it's no worse than the 550W B&W system I had in my previous XKR. That said, I rarely use the sound system, the car is more than enough entertainment, sound-wise!

 

[basher]

Hello

I think I must be one of the few people who actually like the 380 system ... Just for info I use a USB stick with Wav lossless files and works really well.

I have also discovered the unit will play 192Khz / 24 hi rez files which is a bonus

but the end of the day the car environment is not ideal ... I think the next meridian system up has more trick functions

I also like the 380 system... and I also use a USB stick with a mix of WAV files, and my iTunes library.

But I tend not to play music as loud as I used to so I can also hear the exhaust.

 

[scm]

Maybe you need the 770w system to overcome the V8.

 

[Kdes]

Speed dependent volume. It’s on my 2016MY -

 

[Anonymous]

Hello

Good info well done .. thanks for posting

will check mine today ..

regards

 

[pbmusic]

HELLO!

This is a long shot on such an old thread, but I'm having the exact same bad behavior in 380w Meridian system my 2019 I-PACE since since its last SOTA update, and nobody seems to be able to figure it out--not my dealer, not Jaguar, not the forums, nobody. I have a test file that I played via USB to confirm that the system is aggressively compressing signals above -10dB or so (digital scale) and also applying a gradual but significant boost (say over the course of four seconds) to signals below about -35dB.

If the OP every worked this out, I'd love to know how. It's driving me insane.

I created an account just to reply to this, which I found on Google. Feel free to contact me directly at [email protected].

Thank you!

P