I was driving my wife's new 2008 Acura RDX

Why not try adjusting the bass and treble controls? Seems to me this is the first step.

My Bose system in my Corvette sucked. The Harmon Kardon systems in our BMWs are infinitely better.

They all have bass and treble controls, BTW. I'd imagine a fancy pants Elliot Scheiner system probably has even more advanced DSP controls.

I like the hula girl and nodding head dog on the dash to help with window reflections. Ohh and don’t forget the fuzzy dice to dampen the sound a little more. Some people prefer air fresheners. But that is going a little too crazy. ;-)

In all seriousness, while I don't like Bose systems, they do sound pleasing in the midrange and their philosophies of sound reproduction probably work decently in a car system (though I turned it down as an option in my wife's Audi). Does this new sound system allow for treble and bass adjustments? Have you played with those controls? Part of the problem in a lot of these systems is trying to figure out all the adjustments; maybe something is out of whack? Or is this one that purports to adjust itself with no ability to change the sound?

Who the hell is Elliot Scheiner?

Guys and gals, I did all the things you suggest, turning the treble up, down, flat and the bass the same way. It's got a tipped up high frequency but no extended high frequency. Everything sounds sharp and it sounds brightly cool on pop, rock, etc. Their demo DVD-A used a multichannel mix of jazz with the classic guitar in back of you, keyboard back on the other side, bass in your head, etc. Sounded like my old pingpong stereo Command LP's of yesteryear, which admittedly, can be fun. Not realistic.

Sarah Brightman Webber EMI, Szell Philips 50th Beethoven 5/Sibelius 2, Van Cliburn Tchaikovsky pc 1 and Rachmaninoff pc 2 RCA hybrid, and others, no go.

I ended up with bass 1-2 up, treble 3 notches down and most of the sound away from the center (terrible speaker), with a bit more sound from the back than the front speakers and left right equal.