Some quirks about the Command and audio system
10-31-2016, 05:22 PM
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Some quirks about the Command and audio system
So, first of all, I've put about 1500 miles on my beauty in just over 2 weeks and I am IN LOVE! I reach over and push the exhaust button as second nature now and will often times just leave the radio off and listen to her purr.
That being said, there are a few things I've noticed surrounding the Command and audio system:
I've noticed that upon starting the car, it has the radio come on at a set volume, and not where I last had it (if it was turned all the way down, it'll come on). This is kindof annoying as when looking at homes, I didn't want to turn the whole system off to have nav, but just wanted no music and we were in and out of the car all day.
The bass is honestly a little lacking. For being 540w of power and having the "front bass" system, I was expecting a little more "thump" out of her. Granted, I'm not in my days of two 12" woofers anymore, but a little more thump would be nice. Am I missing something other than the standard EQ?
Couple things here:
When I'm heading toward a destination, the Command main screen doesn't show my next turn until about 1/2 mile to the turn. I did a little searching and looks like there is no way to get this on the Command screen, however I have found that the info screen will show as well as the HUD if set to NAV.
Any way to get the destination address to show up when arriving at the destination? It tells me I'm there, but often I forget the street number by the time I get there. I've found an option that you can go in and display the destination the whole time, but that has to be done after the address is entered and a little annoying.
The volume for the Nav resets itself after each key cycle. Any way to set the Nav volume for good?
Any other tips for this car? I've found a couple things like how to roll the windows down and up from the remote.
That being said, there are a few things I've noticed surrounding the Command and audio system:
- Audio
I've noticed that upon starting the car, it has the radio come on at a set volume, and not where I last had it (if it was turned all the way down, it'll come on). This is kindof annoying as when looking at homes, I didn't want to turn the whole system off to have nav, but just wanted no music and we were in and out of the car all day.
The bass is honestly a little lacking. For being 540w of power and having the "front bass" system, I was expecting a little more "thump" out of her. Granted, I'm not in my days of two 12" woofers anymore, but a little more thump would be nice. Am I missing something other than the standard EQ?
- Command Navigation
Couple things here:
When I'm heading toward a destination, the Command main screen doesn't show my next turn until about 1/2 mile to the turn. I did a little searching and looks like there is no way to get this on the Command screen, however I have found that the info screen will show as well as the HUD if set to NAV.
Any way to get the destination address to show up when arriving at the destination? It tells me I'm there, but often I forget the street number by the time I get there. I've found an option that you can go in and display the destination the whole time, but that has to be done after the address is entered and a little annoying.
The volume for the Nav resets itself after each key cycle. Any way to set the Nav volume for good?
Any other tips for this car? I've found a couple things like how to roll the windows down and up from the remote.
10-31-2016, 07:02 PM
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Don't have my car yet, but the audio system behaviors you are describing sound just like the way my five year old Audi behaves. Elsewhere I accused Mercedes of incorporating what appears to be the functional equivalent of a five year old Audi telematics implementation. Maybe I hit the nail on the head.
10-31-2016, 07:28 PM
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So, first of all, I've put about 1500 miles on my beauty in just over 2 weeks and I am IN LOVE! I reach over and push the exhaust button as second nature now and will often times just leave the radio off and listen to her purr.
That being said, there are a few things I've noticed surrounding the Command and audio system:
I've noticed that upon starting the car, it has the radio come on at a set volume, and not where I last had it (if it was turned all the way down, it'll come on). This is kindof annoying as when looking at homes, I didn't want to turn the whole system off to have nav, but just wanted no music and we were in and out of the car all day.
The bass is honestly a little lacking. For being 540w of power and having the "front bass" system, I was expecting a little more "thump" out of her. Granted, I'm not in my days of two 12" woofers anymore, but a little more thump would be nice. Am I missing something other than the standard EQ?
Couple things here:
When I'm heading toward a destination, the Command main screen doesn't show my next turn until about 1/2 mile to the turn. I did a little searching and looks like there is no way to get this on the Command screen, however I have found that the info screen will show as well as the HUD if set to NAV.
Any way to get the destination address to show up when arriving at the destination? It tells me I'm there, but often I forget the street number by the time I get there. I've found an option that you can go in and display the destination the whole time, but that has to be done after the address is entered and a little annoying.
The volume for the Nav resets itself after each key cycle. Any way to set the Nav volume for good?
Any other tips for this car? I've found a couple things like how to roll the windows down and up from the remote.
That being said, there are a few things I've noticed surrounding the Command and audio system:
- Audio
I've noticed that upon starting the car, it has the radio come on at a set volume, and not where I last had it (if it was turned all the way down, it'll come on). This is kindof annoying as when looking at homes, I didn't want to turn the whole system off to have nav, but just wanted no music and we were in and out of the car all day.
The bass is honestly a little lacking. For being 540w of power and having the "front bass" system, I was expecting a little more "thump" out of her. Granted, I'm not in my days of two 12" woofers anymore, but a little more thump would be nice. Am I missing something other than the standard EQ?
- Command Navigation
Couple things here:
When I'm heading toward a destination, the Command main screen doesn't show my next turn until about 1/2 mile to the turn. I did a little searching and looks like there is no way to get this on the Command screen, however I have found that the info screen will show as well as the HUD if set to NAV.
Any way to get the destination address to show up when arriving at the destination? It tells me I'm there, but often I forget the street number by the time I get there. I've found an option that you can go in and display the destination the whole time, but that has to be done after the address is entered and a little annoying.
The volume for the Nav resets itself after each key cycle. Any way to set the Nav volume for good?
Any other tips for this car? I've found a couple things like how to roll the windows down and up from the remote.
Its lacking bass big time.
10-31-2016, 09:48 PM
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Something I've found helps a bit with the sound a bit (and you might already be doing) is going into options at the bottom of the screen - volume - then selecting boost. Annoyingly though I find you have to do this every time you turn the car on.
This amps it up a bit and brings out the bass a bit more which I have set to 8 from memory. I think I might play around with it a bit more as I go along to get the perfect setup.
This amps it up a bit and brings out the bass a bit more which I have set to 8 from memory. I think I might play around with it a bit more as I go along to get the perfect setup.
10-31-2016, 09:52 PM
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Something I've found helps a bit with the sound a bit (and you might already be doing) is going into options at the bottom of the screen - volume - then selecting boost. Annoyingly though I find you have to do this every time you turn the car on.
This amps it up a bit and brings out the bass a bit more which I have set to 8 from memory. I think I might play around with it a bit more as I go along to get the perfect setup.
This amps it up a bit and brings out the bass a bit more which I have set to 8 from memory. I think I might play around with it a bit more as I go along to get the perfect setup.
11-01-2016, 11:35 AM
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Something I've found helps a bit with the sound a bit (and you might already be doing) is going into options at the bottom of the screen - volume - then selecting boost. Annoyingly though I find you have to do this every time you turn the car on.
This amps it up a bit and brings out the bass a bit more which I have set to 8 from memory. I think I might play around with it a bit more as I go along to get the perfect setup.
This amps it up a bit and brings out the bass a bit more which I have set to 8 from memory. I think I might play around with it a bit more as I go along to get the perfect setup.
1) Start car
2) Change to Sport+
3) Turn on Boost Mode for Audio
4) Drive
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11-01-2016, 01:19 PM
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Then the workflow for setting nav destination:
1) Enter destination
2) Set view in cluster to nav
3) Turn on view destination on the nav screen
4) Drive
11-01-2016, 04:37 PM
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11-02-2016, 04:27 PM
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I have come to believe all German electronics engineers ride the bus to work. If you have to push the same button every time you want to drive a car, other than the Start/Stop obviously, they've designed it wrong.
11-02-2016, 04:33 PM
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