RESOLVED Does your front footwell woofer work properly? TSB-B1122-001

Can you hear/feel the woofer in the Driver footwell?


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I uploaded a video to demonstrate what I am hearing. I would appreciate it if any owners on here could please comment as to whether you think this sounds wrong. It sounds like the front left speaker is “blown” to me. It reduces the entire bass to being very muddy; no tightness. Does anyone else hear this? I am using a song in Atmos on Tidal.

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This is exactly how mine sounds. Please let us know what Lucid says.
 
And just for context, I have absolutely no sound coming from the footwell.
 
I uploaded a video to demonstrate what I am hearing. I would appreciate it if any owners on here could please comment as to whether you think this sounds wrong. It sounds like the front left speaker is “blown” to me. It reduces the entire bass to being very muddy; no tightness. Does anyone else hear this? I am using a song in Atmos on Tidal.

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This exact thing is going on in my GT. Had it to the service center already and they are ordering new speaker. They mentioned performing some other tests first before simply replacing, but they ordered the speaker as a solution if needed. Ordered on Monday this week, expect to take it back into service next week.
 
I uploaded a video to demonstrate what I am hearing. I would appreciate it if any owners on here could please comment as to whether you think this sounds wrong. It sounds like the front left speaker is “blown” to me. It reduces the entire bass to being very muddy; no tightness. Does anyone else hear this? I am using a song in Atmos on Tidal.

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Just listened to this. Your sub is blown. That’s why you think the bass sucks. Talk to your service team.
 
My car is in service at the moment but maybe @copper or @bunnylebowski or @hydbob can

Also, just to clarify, there is a sub in each of the front two footwells.
Oh boy so of the people that voted in the poll, most of us have no front subs working and some only have 1 working and even then it's not working right.

This sounds like a very simple fix for Lucid! Can't wait to actually hear this system work well! 🤞
 
Even if it's not, the Lucid will never bump and give you that chest thump that many owners say is lacking. It's just not the way the system was designed because it's tuned for Atmos and you don't find that thunp through your chest bass in Atmos format. Like @bunnylebowski said before, that extra bass is to cover up crappy source material.
I don't have my car yet but this is accurate. It's similar to my Samsung Atmos Soundbar and it took some getting used to.
 
Just listened to this. Your sub is blown. That’s why you think the bass sucks. Talk to your service team.

Are there different degrees of “blown”? Mine in my car sounds a lot like this, though perhaps not as pronounced, which is probably why our local Mobile Service rep, Frank, didn’t hear it.

My subwoofer “whoomp, whoomp, whoomp” seems to be coming out of my driver door panel. I didn’t hear it at all sitting in the front passenger seat, and I haven’t checked the sound out from the back seat.

When our local service rep visited me, he couldn’t hear it the way I could. Perhaps if he heard this recording…

I’m resolved to making my own recording when I get back home, text it to Lucid Service, and reopen my complaint.
 
@Bobby showed me that there's a Subwoofer in the driver side footwell. Mine doesn't seem to work, even after a reset.

1. Please play "Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi" on Tidal. Youtube reference -
2. Set the volume to 50%.
3. Put your hand or ear on the little leather panel next to the dead pedal
4. Do you feel the Subwoofer working?

Side note - the speakers in the rear seat sound...surreal. First time I tried sitting back there.
I'm not convinced there are speakers in the footwell - has Lucid confirmed this? There is little reason to put a speaker behind a solid material (which I believe is soft touch plastic) as that would muffle whatever sound is being generated. If sound is being actively generated rather than passively through the bottom of the dash, then it would be a down firing speaker. I think what is being heard or felt is from the speakers in the dash. So if @Bobby records music as he moves his phone from one dash speaker to another across all 3 grills, we might detect which is blown. If all three grills are producing clean sound, then I'm wrong. Acoustic pressure from low frequency can cause vibrations in distant solid objects as anyone with big woofers or subs can tell you. My dual subs can rattle things a room away and I can feel the wall vibrate upstairs if I crank up the volume. In a small space like a car, there is little reason to have a non-directional sound (low frequency) emanating from multiple speakers. It's much more likely there is just 1 sub in the back (maybe a 2nd in the front) but multiple woofers (mid bass) placed throughout. Makes little sense from a design standpoint to put a sub in each footwell covered by a solid panel...that just wouldn't sound good.
 
I'm not convinced there are speakers in the footwell - has Lucid confirmed this? There is little reason to put a speaker behind a solid material (which I believe is soft touch plastic) as that would muffle whatever sound is being generated. If sound is being actively generated rather than passively through the bottom of the dash, then it would be a down firing speaker. I think what is being heard or felt is from the speakers in the dash. So if @Bobby records music as he moves his phone from one dash speaker to another across all 3 grills, we might detect which is blown. If all three grills are producing clean sound, then I'm wrong. Acoustic pressure from low frequency can cause vibrations in distant solid objects as anyone with big woofers or subs can tell you. My dual subs can rattle things a room away and I can feel the wall vibrate upstairs if I crank up the volume. In a small space like a car, there is little reason to have a non-directional sound (low frequency) emanating from multiple speakers. It's much more likely there is just 1 sub in the back (maybe a 2nd in the front) but multiple woofers (mid bass) placed throughout. Makes little sense from a design standpoint to put a sub in each footwell covered by a solid panel...that just wouldn't sound good.
You've gotta put your hand on it to know for sure. You can most definitely feel a very localized vibration if those subs are working.

Anyway, we should have an answer in a few days as I've got an appointment setup to help take a look. I'll take pictures if we end up taking panels off.
 
I'm not convinced there are speakers in the footwell - has Lucid confirmed this? There is little reason to put a speaker behind a solid material (which I believe is soft touch plastic) as that would muffle whatever sound is being generated. If sound is being actively generated rather than passively through the bottom of the dash, then it would be a down firing speaker. I think what is being heard or felt is from the speakers in the dash. So if @Bobby records music as he moves his phone from one dash speaker to another across all 3 grills, we might detect which is blown. If all three grills are producing clean sound, then I'm wrong. Acoustic pressure from low frequency can cause vibrations in distant solid objects as anyone with big woofers or subs can tell you. My dual subs can rattle things a room away and I can feel the wall vibrate upstairs if I crank up the volume. In a small space like a car, there is little reason to have a non-directional sound (low frequency) emanating from multiple speakers. It's much more likely there is just 1 sub in the back (maybe a 2nd in the front) but multiple woofers (mid bass) placed throughout. Makes little sense from a design standpoint to put a sub in each footwell covered by a solid panel...that just wouldn't sound good.
I confirmed this with Lucid directly. There is a sub in each front footwell, and one in the back.
 
I confirmed this with Lucid directly. There is a sub in each front footwell, and one in the back.
Agree. They don't have as much of the solid bass punch as the one in the back, but they do contribute. The one in my passenger foot well sounds nice, but one of the driver sounds blown or loose.
 
Agree. They don't have as much of the solid bass punch as the one in the back, but they do contribute. The one in my passenger foot well sounds nice, but one of the driver sounds blown or loose.

Get that sucker fixed. You’ll be happy with the sound. I’m addicted .
 
Agree. They don't have as much of the solid bass punch as the one in the back, but they do contribute. The one in my passenger foot well sounds nice, but one of the driver sounds blown or loose.
Can you play a "standard" quality source like spotify and see if they still fire? Wondering if they only fire for atmos otherwise, mine don't work at all. I stuck my head into each footwell and didn't hear any bass notes or felt anything.
 
Agree. They don't have as much of the solid bass punch as the one in the back, but they do contribute. The one in my passenger foot well sounds nice, but one of the driver sounds blown or loose.

Right. Same with me. “Whoomp, whoomp, whoomp” coming from the driver footwell, no such “whoomp” coming from the passsenger side.
 
Can you play a "standard" quality source like spotify and see if they still fire? Wondering if they only fire for atmos otherwise, mine don't work at all. I stuck my head into each footwell and didn't hear any bass notes or felt anything.
They do.
 
Can you play a "standard" quality source like spotify and see if they still fire? Wondering if they only fire for atmos otherwise, mine don't work at all. I stuck my head into each footwell and didn't hear any bass notes or felt anything.
I’ll upload a video soon.
 
Yeah just play that 40hz test tone on Tidal or the frequency sweep test track I posted. That will give you way more reliable information than any music track. It may be that the speaker itself isn’t the problem but something loose near it, but something is definitively mechanically wrong with it, this isn’t a software/DSP/amp problem unless the amp is mistakenly sending a clipped signal to the woofer.
 
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