Yeah if we knew he was listening to his music via Bluetooth that would have cleared things up quickly.
Wrong. I listen to Tidal in the car using the car's app. I will copy uncompressed audio on a USB stick also , and listen in both cars
I am using Tidal in Lucid, NOT over Bluetooth, which does not have enough bandwidth for surround sound and cannot carry surround sound. So what you suspected was not the case. Bluetooth only carries stereo, spdif cannot carry Atmos, etc. I know a lot about HiFi stuff
I am using TIDAL on the car itself. So I know what I am talking about. However, I did more research and realized the Lucid sub is in a tiny enclosure -this is where the lack of deep bass comes from. If Lucid does not use limiters, I can find a shop to pull a signal from the sub, install a bigger sub or 2 in front of the back seats, and see how it goes. However, if the Lucid DSP cuts off the bass, so it would not drive their tiny subwoofer into over-excursion, there is nothing I can do...
I love the car regardless; I am not a secret Elon Musk agent who advertises Tesla. I love both cars.
Psychoacoustic research shows how much of a difference is perceived between Bluetooth APTX Lossless and the original file.
NONE . But Lucid does not support APTX.
320K MP3 sounds indistinguishable from CD, for example,
Hi-res wireless streaming over Bluetooth... sort of
www.whathifi.com
It is not the Bluetooth compression; it is the small sub in the small enclosure in the Lucid.
People keep saying Lucid is made for Tidal, and nothing else should sound good on Lucid. False. Moderate imperceptible compression is a well-tuned system with deep bass, and flat response will sound better than DSD or PCM 192 on a system with anemic subs/small midbass drivers. In one of my rooms, I am using a small class D 100-dollar amp with Klipsch towers over the low-quality SBC codec - Bluetooth, and, despite all that compression, it blows away any car system. There is no replacement for displacement.
Suppose I listen to those "horrible" AAC 256 and MP3 320 "over-compressed" stereo signals up-mixed to Dolby surround on my home system with high-end subs and full-range speakers-a 7.2.4 system. In that case, it will mop the floor with TIDAL uncompressed -original Atmos content everybody is raving about on this forum, played on a soundbar with small drivers and a small sub. Bluetooth CODECS are called perceptual because there is very little difference in what humans hear when compression is done correctly at a reasonably high bitrate.
Lucid does not support high-quality Bluetooth codecs, but even AAC can sound very good at a high bit rate.
What is next, people raving about how they can perceive uncompressed UltraHD content on their TVs over a very efficient codec like H265?
en.wikipedia.org
The human ear has limitations.
So I started doing some research into the music quality on the Lucid Air and discovered something interesting. When using Tidal via the built-in application, the stream is limited to 320kbps. However, if you use Alexa to play the same song via Tidal, it seams to play at max quality > 1411kbps...
lucidowners.com
I have had many cars and home systems in my life. Lucid sounds excellent but lacks deep bass. The highs are not very detailed either, but they are pretty good. The strength is in the VERY CLEAR mids.
I will try,
MaxxBass from
Waves on my laptop and see if t helps. I will use Bluetooth to send the sound to the Lucid. Wouldn't an HDMI input for lucid have been nice?
MaxxBass
creates harmonics that you can add to the signal. These harmonics trick the ear into perceiving low bass frequencies that may not actually be present in the output. This psychoacoustic illusion can be used for mixing and mastering to enhance the bass response for playback on any system.