faint sound from driver-side speaker when cold

[surgeon]

I have a 93 NSX, I am having problem with my driver side speaker. When the interior is cold, the sound is very faint or almost no sound at all.

When the interior is warmed up to 76 F, then it would be "normal". Does that sound like the "typical" NSX Bose amp problem to you guys?

I don't have any popping or high pitch noise. The car has 32k miles.

Please advise me how this can be fixed. Thanks!

Jason

 

[Vegas Boy]

There was a guy on Ebay recently advertising he could fix the BOSE units- the speaker/amp unit from the dealer is
very expensive.

 

[nsxtasy]

True, but that doesn't answer the question being asked here.

 

[surgeon]

From Jason:

Today, I noticed this super loud popping & high pitch noise from my driverside speaker, while the other two speakers are mute. Only noise, no music nothing.. just loud ear-killing noise.. I couldnt turn down the volume (of the noise) at all. It stayed constantly loud. It didn't make any difference if i switch the radio channel.. just noise. When I turned off the radio, and turned it back on, same noise again..

It went away after few min and few tries of turning on/off. Does this sound like the "typical" NSX Bose amp problem to you guys?


Steve
Posting for a friend

 

[Biaggi]

Sure does sound like it... The amps are bad.... Mine started with the intermittant squelching noise and popping to the point I just couldn't bare it and I'd turn the radio off. Send them off to Bose with their lifetime guarantee... 800.231.2673 option4 $79.95 +s/h

 

[Edwardo]

The sound is the beginning stages of your amplifiers death. Small pops will soon become jarring screeches.

I know this because this was the pattern my amplifier exibited. I only have the passenger side amplifier not to play music.

I am scouring through the archives on here looking for aftermarket solutions to this issue. I have also received quite a bit of help from a very helpful forum member (92NSX). The unfortunate news is that I believe it will cost a great deal of money to fit an adequate aftermarket system in to the car. When I say adequate I mean a couple of MB Quartz door speakers and a decent amplifier to power said speakers. Nothing fancy.

Hope I helped!

 

[Zishan]

I hate the BOSE speakers that came in my car!!! It started when I was driving a 300+ mile trip!! So I had no music. So annoying!!
done venting....
Z

 

[NSXaholic]

What causes the amps to go bad? Is it (a) a unit that becomes defective, (b) standard wear-and-tear that occurs with the passage of time (I assume it's probably not this since Bose has a lifetime g'tee on their units), or (c) getting "busted" from playing music too loudly?

Regards.

 

[nsxtasy]

I'm not sure how a unit "becomes" defective. If it's defective, it doesn't work from day one. I don't think it's "standard wear and tear", because electronics shouldn't just wear out, IMHO. I think it's just a poor design, in which it's easy for the electronics to fail.

Oh, and it's not (c).