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Old 05-14-2012, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Penguin View Post
I'm guessing so that it is independent of the music system, making it easier to have different music systems that can be redesigned/changed easily without impacting the basic vehicle systems. I suspect they are using the speaker used for "sound effects," such as the alarm gong and other sounds.
That is not where the gong sound comes from. From an electrical engineer's point of view, it is actually more complicated and prone to more failures if you create a separate system to do that, rather than use an audio system designed to readily play from whatever source available, eg. Bluetooth calling. There is no impact as the only thing it is designed to do is play audio. If you have BMW Assist on, it shuts down all music anyway.
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