Disappointed in B&O Unleashed

[AAWhyte]

Thanks, never crossed my mind I could plug a stick into it..

It's a very "clunky" interface. I would not use it daily as it does not recognize folders so all the songs are in alphabetical order. No artist naming, for some reason it ignored that and just listed the song names. I put about 5 albums on it while testing. It will display the album art if you have that imbedded into the mp3 file.

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[SonnyDigs]

It a very "clunky" interface. I would not use it daily as it does not recognize folders so all the songs are in alphabetical order. No artist naming, for some reason it ignored that and just listed the song names. I put about 5 albums on it while testing. It will display the album art if you have that imbedded into the mp3 file.

Thanks..

 

[Bowtye8]

I am very happy with the Unleased system!! came from a 2012 sony, 2015 sony, 2018 B&O and now 21 B&O unleashed. I have always been using a IPod(iphone) with a cable. All sounded really good. I had XM and I will ask if you listem to XM and thne try music with a iphone...always sounded 10x better in my opinion.
I just started using spotfiy in the last 6 mths and it compares right up with with a cabled iphone/ipod.

Only complaint is I have the rear window vibration. my 15 , nor my 18 had that issue. So for now I still have a tshirt wedged inbetween the back window and headrest.
I have my EQ settings bass and treb set to max and mid a few clicks above.
I listen to various music from COuntry, ACDC, feetwood mac, to ..country soul(willie jones) or Throw it back by Breland.... just have some good clean bass!!

 

[RedTXV]

Only complaint is I have the rear window vibration. my 15 , nor my 18 had that issue. So for now I still have a tshirt wedged inbetween the back window and headrest.

Interesting. I have noticed a rattle coming from the back of my cab as well in just the last few weeks. I haven't tried to pinpoint it yet, but looks like I'll start here.

 

[Bowtye8]

Interesting. I have noticed a rattle coming from the back of my cab as well in just the last few weeks. I haven't tried to pinpoint it yet, but looks like I'll start here.

some folks have said the cable track and the window. I have my cable kinda lifted out of the track for now and still a black tshirt pushing on the window.
I thought a saw a post dedicated just to the rear window rattle. Some folks adding extra felt etc. I just have touched it since the tshirt wedge. keep us posted on your findings.
Its a type of rattle when the bass hits hard. volume turned halfway and above.

 

[RedTXV]

keep us posted on your findings.
Its a type of rattle when the bass hits hard. volume turned halfway and above.

Will do. And same for me.

 

[Platinum Peasant]

some folks have said the cable track and the window. I have my cable kinda lifted out of the track for now and still a black tshirt pushing on the window.
I thought a saw a post dedicated just to the rear window rattle. Some folks adding extra felt etc. I just have touched it since the tshirt wedge. keep us posted on your findings.
Its a type of rattle when the bass hits hard. volume turned halfway and above.

+1 here with the window rattle. It’s terrible.

 

[MTNMN]

+1 here with the window rattle. It’s terrible.

+3

I was hoping it would be gone when i traded the 21 502A in for the 2022 601A but notsounding like it willbe if its that common..

 

[blind56]

+4 for rear window rattle, only seems to happen when I have it open though.

 

[Bexiga]

Same here with the rattle, did notice that when rear seats are up, rattle goes away. Truck is due for an oil change soon, will bring this up when it goes in.

 

[JF Potvin]

remove the volume equalizer in the settings of your phone. me my system is unleashed

 

[Tremor 1]

My system sounds incredible while playing the blues on pandora play a good blues song like bluest blues by Alvin lee and George Harrison or some Steve Ray Vaughn or some EC playing the blues and the sound stage is unreal the only problem is I wish I could turn down center speaker a bit otherwise it sounds great

 

[superfordman]

If you rear window rattles, which seems they all do, check out this thread. We've found some solutions to remedy it for now. Ford even has a service document on it as its a known issue and is still trying to find a solution, but it's pretty much due to how the window track was assembled and has too much play in it.

https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/sliding-rear-window-rattle-help.2722/

 

[Savannah Power]

I am also disappointed with the Unleashed system in my 2021 Platinum Hybrid. My 2013 with the Sony system was better in almost every way, and that stinks.

To get something out of the way, B&O is now part of Harmon. JBL and Infinity have been under the Harmon brand for years. Samsung recently bought Harmon so what Ford has is a Samsung Harmon B&O system. Oh, and Panasonic builds the Sync 4 head units.

My gripes are numerous. First, there is no real low frequency response. Then what the system does have is a big hump in response in the 100-200Hz range that makes the music sound muddy. The controls are totally useless and frankly a three-band tone and only balance/fade control is downright cheapo. The contours are poor at solving deficiencies, especially the bass. The system forces a rear-bias setting that jumps the imaging rearward in a non-linear fashion
to stem the biggest problem:

That fault is the inability to turn down the center dash speakers. My '57 Chevy and '64 Bonneville had the same problem with one speaker each. The soundstage is almost always dominated by the center channel, and only if you are lucky enough to hit a HD station where the surround pops up does that change. Add to that a lack of CD input and boy was this a waste of $950.

No doubt a reprogramming could change a lot of these problems. That center speaker is the first things that needs a separate control. The muddy sound is probably baked in, along with the poor sub bass. B&O systems in Audi were brilliant. Harmon systems in Mercedes are too. Even the Harmon/JBL system in my old 2012 Avalon was better than this. Ford and Harmon/B&O need to step up on this one.

And don't get me started on the decision to delete any 12V power source in the cab. "Stupid is as stupid does", said Forrest.

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