Interior road noise
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St. Jude Donor '15 thru '26
Interior road noise
What could/should designers do to quite the cabin.
It's been said that the hatch area is one of the largest culprits.
It's been said that the hatch area is one of the largest culprits.
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From: Cold Hell, Minnesota...for now
St. Jude Donor '15 thru '26
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I recently took a 3500-mile road trip in my 2005 (with an extra layer of sound mat installed). To me, road noise is a big negative.
I understand that a lightweight hatchback with massive tires is inherently more noisy than a luxury sport sedan. I certainly don't want GM to ruin the car making it vault-quiet. But personally I'm much less inclined to re-up with a C7 next year if it isn't significantly quieter than C6.
If it took another 50 pounds to make it so, I'd pay it. It would make the car a better daily driver and a much better GT. I know the idea of fifty pounds will bring on the rage, but that midrange noise muffles music and conversation and adds stress to long drives.
[x] GTS - Grand Touring package, includes cabin noise reduction, 9-speaker audio system, navigation system, and heated and cooled seats that still have good lateral support dammit
.Jinx
I understand that a lightweight hatchback with massive tires is inherently more noisy than a luxury sport sedan. I certainly don't want GM to ruin the car making it vault-quiet. But personally I'm much less inclined to re-up with a C7 next year if it isn't significantly quieter than C6.
If it took another 50 pounds to make it so, I'd pay it. It would make the car a better daily driver and a much better GT. I know the idea of fifty pounds will bring on the rage, but that midrange noise muffles music and conversation and adds stress to long drives.
[x] GTS - Grand Touring package, includes cabin noise reduction, 9-speaker audio system, navigation system, and heated and cooled seats that still have good lateral support dammit
.Jinx
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From: Cary NC
I recently took a 3500-mile road trip in my 2005 (with an extra layer of sound mat installed). To me, road noise is a big negative.
I understand that a lightweight hatchback with massive tires is inherently more noisy than a luxury sport sedan. I certainly don't want GM to ruin the car making it vault-quiet. But personally I'm much less inclined to re-up with a C7 next year if it isn't significantly quieter than C6.
If it took another 50 pounds to make it so, I'd pay it. It would make the car a better daily driver and a much better GT. I know the idea of fifty pounds will bring on the rage, but that midrange noise muffles music and conversation and adds stress to long drives.
[x] GTS - Grand Touring package, includes cabin noise reduction, 9-speaker audio system, navigation system, and heated and cooled seats that still have good lateral support dammit
I understand that a lightweight hatchback with massive tires is inherently more noisy than a luxury sport sedan. I certainly don't want GM to ruin the car making it vault-quiet. But personally I'm much less inclined to re-up with a C7 next year if it isn't significantly quieter than C6.
If it took another 50 pounds to make it so, I'd pay it. It would make the car a better daily driver and a much better GT. I know the idea of fifty pounds will bring on the rage, but that midrange noise muffles music and conversation and adds stress to long drives.
[x] GTS - Grand Touring package, includes cabin noise reduction, 9-speaker audio system, navigation system, and heated and cooled seats that still have good lateral support dammit
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If you look at the shape of the rear of the C6 coupe, it is almost a perfect funnel of road/exhaust noise from the back end to the driver and passenger. Hopefully just the new rear window/end shape will break up that noise a bit.
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I have found that the convert C6 is far quieter than the C6 coupes so it appears it is the coupe design that is the main thing that greatly increases noise in a corvette's interior cabin area.
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That is why I bought a vert over the coupe...
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I'd be surprised if we don't receive active noise canceling though the new "improved" Bose system. With the microphones for the infotainment system, it would be pretty easy to reduce a lot of the unwanted noise. It's already being used in the Cadiallc and would add a minuscule cost to the sound system in the 'vette.
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I'd be surprised if we don't receive active noise canceling though the new "improved" Bose system. With the microphones for the infotainment system, it would be pretty easy to reduce a lot of the unwanted noise. It's already being used in the Cadiallc and would add a minuscule cost to the sound system in the 'vette.
And here is their web blurb promoting the feature to automakers: http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/...ations/asm.jsp
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No way not on the highway. The C6 vert that my mom drives is way louder in the cockpit compared to my C6 coupe.
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They've already done the biggest thing they could do, which is to toss the Crapyears in the trash. My ZR1 is waaaaaaay quieter than my Z06 was when it had the stock tires. If I ever buy another car whose OEM tire is a Goodyear, I will immediately throw them in the trash and put Michelins on it.
