This setting provides a crisp, clear, luxury
high-end sound setting for a studio atmos-
phere in your vehicle.
R
surround
This setting enables a wide-ranging sound
experience for playing music and videos.
:
Current position of the sound setting
For the optimum musical enjoyment, you can
focus the sound image precisely on one seat.
This means you are right at the center of the
listening experience, with all system param-
eters being precisely calculated for the selec-
ted position. The result is authentic music
reproduction inside the vehicle.
Focusing the sound setting
X
Press the
$
button.
X
Select
Sound
by sliding
V
Æ
and turning
cVd
the COMAND controller and press
W
to confirm.
X
Select
Bang&Olufsen
and press
W
to con-
firm.
A menu appears. A
#
dot marks the current
setting for Sound Mode.
Depending on the vehicle model series
X
Select
left
,
all
or
rear
and press
W
to
confirm.
or
X
Select
left
,
all
or
right
and press
W
to
confirm.
X
To exit the menu: press the
k
back
button or slide
XVY
the COMAND control-
ler.
i
Please note the following: you will achieve
the best sound results on your Bang & Oluf-
sen sound system by playing high-quality
CDs.
MP3 tracks should have a bit rate of at least
224 kbit/s.
When playing using an iPod
®
, the bit rate
should also be at least 224 kbit/s.
For optimum playback quality:
X
Deactivate the “EQ” setting on the
iPod
®
.
Surround-sound playback does not func-
tion for mono signal sources, such as the
medium wave range (MW) in radio mode.
On some stereo recordings, the sound
characteristics may differ from conven-
tional stereo playback.
Character entry (telephony)
Example: entering characters
:
*
Switches the character bar to upper-
case/lowercase letters
;
p
Switches the character bar from
uppercase/lowercase letters to dig-
its
=
B
Changes the language of the char-
acter bar
?
2
Deletes a character/an entry
The example describes how to enter the sur-
name “Schulz”.
At a glance
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COMAND
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