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Lucid Air aftermarket Hifi upgrade summary (and quality / configuration of the factory audio)

MalosAires said:
I’m proudly having the first Lucid Air upgrade performed by Reus Audio in Anaheim. Last week, they installed my subwoofer and the whole thing already sounds astonishingly better than the stock system. Very deep, clean bass inside the cabin with no noise outside. As for the mids/highs, they sound good now, but the team at Reus knew they could be better! They took several audio measurements which they are currently having their software analyze, to determine the best drivers/crossovers to be used for the cabin. I’ll be posting a full review once the system takes on its final form, but have been so pleased so far that I wanted to share with other SoCal owners who may be considering an upgrade!
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How did the final system come out?
 
Did have the SS package or the SSP? Does it make a difference when installing multiple amplifiers
 
DreamTour said:
I will post more on the build later. Basically the approach was to take the amped signal from the factory dsp and run it into an aftermarket dsp/amp. I did upgrade the 8 driver and amp. It's definitely better but potential will be limited by physics. I decided not to do a more extensive bass mod because of the space it would take in the trunk.
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Could you have pull signal before oem amp?
DreamTour said:
I will post more on the build later. Basically the approach was to take the amped signal from the factory dsp and run it into an aftermarket dsp/amp. I did upgrade the 8 driver and amp. It's definitely better but potential will be limited by physics. I decided not to do a more extensive bass mod because of the space it would take in the trunk.
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could you pull signal before oem amp
 
DreamTour said:
Part 2 - Power Amplification

For this next part, i will review things to know about the power amps. As stated before, the factory system consists of 2 Class D DSP Power Amps. One for the base system and one for the premium system. The factory system is fully active crossovers for each channel at least for the premium system. For the Base system, it's unclear if they will simplify the setup with some passive crossovers to save discrete channels. I suspect to the "Detuned" systems that have all the hardware but will be software limited, they will basically program it to kill the atmos functionality and the height channels but use the same power amplification. Not sure how thoughtful they will be about the tune from there. You will see below the factory amps alongside the aftermarket amps. For this build we used the Mosconi Pico series. Each amplified channel is mapped to an input side on the mosconi pico, and from there can be signal corrected before being re-amped to the drivers.

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To allow mounting of the aftermarket amps in the same positions as the factory amps (so as to use the factory cables back to the drivers, a mounting plate was created to "shift" the factory amps over to the side. The offset levels were required to clear the other rear surround drivers.

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You will see the final mounting positions of the factory and aftermarket amps here inside the trunk. This setup is clean, consumed no extra trunk space and fit within the existing trunk trim. Elegant!

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As mentioned elsewhere the Lucid Air actually has 2 low voltage batteries. One somewhere under the seat and one in the trunk in the compartment under the tow hook. It's not clear why they did it this way, but there probably was a reason. (maybe packaging? maybe to reduce the likelihood of total low voltage failure if a single battery failed?) They apparently operate in parallel, so it's easier to access the trunk battery to tap it.

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Still waiting to see if i can get the RTA / Sweeps from the factory system.
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Were you able too?
 
huggy said:
Could you have pull signal before oem amp?

could you pull signal before oem amp
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Not really because it’s an upmixed atmos signal. You need the dsp / amp to properly process it from the media computer.
 
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