« Reply #33 on: 24 June 2015, 21:50 »
Andy:
What do you think of the Soundaktor?
On the motorway home it was completely unobtrusive.
When driving around town it is like a very loud very cheap child's toy trying to pretend it's a V8 to justify having four exhaust pipes.
Pretty nasty.
No wonder they didn't spec Dynaudio on the R for six months as the soundaktor would just drown it out and your £600 ish investment would be wasted.
I have two urgent jobs to attend to on mine:
Switch that horrible noise off and find an SD card so I can upload the radio station logos.
The R seems lower geared than the GTI too. Not sure if that's my imagination? The R gets around the initial slower turbo spool than the GTI by trying to stay above 2000rpm unlike the GTI that sat happily at just above idle in many gears. It makes the 7R feel quite responsive at town speeds compared to the 6R.
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