Don't get me wrong, the sound is not perfect, but I think it's many times over improved from what you might hear stock on any one of these. Watching other posted videos of this station- you can hear the difference between mine and theirs with everyone really needing to do this mod and MTH take notes on this at the factory. This makes me wonder if the other stations (gas?) use this board with different sounds and have the same issue. It still has that low quality encoded audio- that's just the sound and the chip limitations as implemented, but now without added distortion it's just night and day better. For comparison, listen to a few other unmodded posted videos and see if you can hear the difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qxjUHYfTmk and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNJAt9WAEUM
Yes, I think it makes it slightly less loud volume wise, but to my ear, that was also huge distortion that rattled the building as well, just making it horrible to the point I was really unhappy. Hoping my first post here helps some folks out