Android Bluetooth Bass Boost

[mikecronis]

It's my opinion the bass frequencies around the 3Hz to 200Hz range are lacking in Surreal Sound Pro.
Bass tends to drop-off sharply using Waze and an associated streaming App, such as Pandora on Android devices, whereas native streaming applications, such as SiriusXM tends to be "warmer" sounding.
I found Lucid's bass at maximum setting to be thin, personally. Some have added a subwoofer in the trunk.

One solution I've been successful with is a Google Play Store App known as "Bass Booster" by g000sha256.
The App does not collect data nor shared with 3rd parties, nor does it access your microphone or contacts, etc.
It is not "always on" and adjustable.

The App allows the Android device to increase bass frequencies to your liking both through Bluetooth Audio or Wired Connection (aka Android Auto) or through the phone's built-in speaker.
I've found these settings to be to my liking.
The image below does not have my Lucid Air connected, but when it is, it will say "Lucid Air".

I feel the Lucid Air's woofers to be adequate now that this EQ improvement is applied. I have my Lucid EQ settings to Bass and Treble at maximum and Mid to be 1 notch over halfway up.
I experimented with a true-zero Lucid Air EQ setting and found these settings to also be adequate, but I feel my settings are preferable.

The "Old Effects Engine" makes it a bit more muddy in my opinion.

The App is free on the Google Play Store.

 

[borski]

It's my opinion the bass frequencies around the 3Hz to 200Hz range are lacking in Surreal Sound Pro.
Bass tends to drop-off sharply using Waze and an associated streaming App, such as Pandora on Android devices, whereas native streaming applications, such as SiriusXM tends to be "warmer" sounding.
I found Lucid's bass at maximum setting to be thin, personally. Some have added a subwoofer in the trunk.

One solution I've been successful with is a Google Play Store App known as "Bass Booster" by g000sha256.
The App does not collect data nor shared with 3rd parties, nor does it access your microphone or contacts, etc.
It is not "always on" and adjustable.

The App allows the Android device to increase bass frequencies to your liking both through Bluetooth Audio or Wired Connection (aka Android Auto) or through the phone's built-in speaker.
I've found these settings to be to my liking.
The image below does not have my Lucid Air connected, but when it is, it will say "Lucid Air".

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I feel the Lucid Air's woofers to be adequate now that this EQ improvement is applied. I have my Lucid EQ settings to Bass and Treble at maximum and Mid to be 1 notch over halfway up.
I experimented with a true-zero Lucid Air EQ setting and found these settings to also be adequate, but I feel my settings are preferable.

The "Old Effects Engine" makes it a bit more muddy in my opinion.

The App is free on the Google Play Store.

Which version of software are you on? 2.6.0 made a lot of changes to audio tuning.

 

[mikecronis]

2.6.0 as of today. I found the bass response to be lessened, or more accurately "moved". Since it's a 3-band EQ, I believe they repositioned the "Bass" frequency to around 100Hz.
At a stopped position, it sounds fair. When driving it's lost in the tire and road-noise and sounds thin, so you crank the volume and then the Midrange just dominates at about 1000Hz and sounds like a transistor radio at half-full-volume. So 1111Hp requires some focus, so you change the media source to SiriusXM and then it's completely different, then you switch to USB using FLAC 24-bit and it's completely different again.

.A better solution would have been to offer a 10-band EQ IMHO, one setting for each source selected. GM does this.

Many cars perform clever EQ changes along with speed-dependent volume control (SVC) or speed volume compensation.
I do not believe the Lucid Air does any EQ modifications based on speed.

What's amazing is the App pushes the frequencies just that extra click or two higher and the woofers are completely fine with it; no clipping or fuss, which tells me the 3-band EQ is set to some odd parametric parameters and Q-settings. I have not tried ultra-flat Tidal Music yet in it with the upgrade, and the Dolby Atmos to me is just a parlor trick; I'd much rather have 2 good speakers than a 5.1 aural-dance with bad tone.

Cranked to maximum, the bass response is faint as if out of low-budget PC speakers from the 1990's. The App I recommended fixes that, moving more emphasis to the 200Hz area and widening the amplification of it. It's free and you can give it a shot. I'm not a talk-radio kinda guy, more focusing on epic prog-rock, and I need my galactic spaceship journey to transport through the black-hole with the right amount of "oomph.".

I praise the speakers themselves for the most part as they're up to the task, but I curse the programmers for making bad EQ settings in my opinion. As they sing in the '80s sitcom, Square Pegs, "One size does not fit all."

 

[northernstar]

A better solution would have been to offer a 10-band EQ IMHO, one setting for each source selected. GM does this.

Yes!!! 3 band EQ is too basic... Especially at the SSP tier...