Buying advice/tips

[East Yorkshire Retrofits]

All of the parts are available from TPS. The amp is ~£700 new from TPS, which is why it's nice to see they're starting to pop up used

The amp sits under plastic trim under the left seat, area view sits in the same place under the right seat.

Beats audio has an external amplifier with MIB2 so seat have had an amp since ~2017/18

 

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Before then VW had it, may be Skoda but Seat was holding back. Now it's been made so tricky for DIYers to swap speakers out getting what you want first time or finding people like you to retrofit is the answer unless you got skills at taking the door panels off etc.

Always impressed by the quality of the sound in the built in Seat infotainmet just let down by the "paper" speakers of old. They were a joke, belonged to the time when you always changed speakers. Don't think the Seat Sound System is too bad speaker wise, but did have to tinker with the crossover on the balance since in the Ateca it was putting too much treble on that centre speaker which created distortion in speech. You know how good the speakers were in the old days as you could see whether they installed a crossover (capacitor / coil) now the crossover is in the amp.

Takeaways are to hunt for the external amp and sub woofer when looking over the car else you are into fitting your own external amp if installing a sub woofer or getting East Yorkshire Retrofit to do it. The spec probably rotates around my previous moans of Seat cutting down on the spec to reach a price point. Taking away the option to spec up at purchase which is offered more elsewhere in Europe by Seat e.g.. Eire. Interesting to look at the German offer and Eire against ours. Eire being RHD same as the UK but different exchange rates.