Response from Colin: "There are some things we can't share quite yet but keep an eye on the Gravity launch to see some of the new things we are working on. I am particularly interested in seeing what is possible with spatial audio in a vehicle and believe that we are just beginning to scratch the surface."
Response from Bob: "Interesting idea... You could connect to the car via bluetooth and use your winamp iPhone or Android app and utilize its built-in EQ. But no, I don't think there are any plans to make a native winamp player."
Response from Bob: "Audio off as in something like a system mute? You can pause your music and that'll result in audio being off... Not trying to be snarky - I guess maybe I don't understand your question. This isn't really my dept, but from what I understand there are gov't regulations on some of the chime sounds, like seatbelt warnings, that can't be muted, if that's what you mean. As for Amazon Music, I have no idea - that's a question for the Infotainment team."
Response from Bob: "Great question. We could spend all day talking about subjective quality vs objective accuracy. In my experience, a system that measures ruler flat on a frequency response graph is really boring and uninspiring to listen to. But when the scale is tipped too far in any direction you're going away from what most people are going to like. This is where the nuance comes in. I don't have a short, definitive answer to your question, but I will say, at my previous job my team had to come up with tunings on various consumer electronics product categories that needed final approval from cross-functional leadership, and never once did we run into a situation where we didn't get unanimous agreement with regards to how a given product should sound. Mind you, it took 9-10 months of work to achieve this level of completeness. It doesn't happen overnight. But point being, there is a level of quality that brings people's opinions together. Here at Lucid we're 100% dedicated to executing to that level."
Response from Colin:Tried to get through all the questions just now, but am pressed for time. Forgive me if this has been answered already.
Are there plans to allow playback of hi-res lossless multi-channel files from thumb drives? Support for DSD / MKA / FLAC / ALAC in 5.1 24-bit 96kHz or greater would be amazing, with MKA supporting lossless Dolby Atmos.
Response from Colin: "Yes we are actively looking into additional content providers for Atmos to provide more spatial content"
Response from Colin: "Thanks for the feedback. We understand that the current behavior has significant limitations. Improving the audio playback experience on ingress/ egress is a high priority for us as we improve the overall audio experience."
Response from Colin: "We are in the process of improving the chime sounds and behavior in Gravity with the goal of bringing the improvements back to Air"Hello! Any plan to upgrade the sound scape of the car? I feel like the sounds from various notifications in the car are like Windows 98 error dialog sounds. I'd love for a more streamlined notification sound experience. In my previous cars, all notifications sounded like airplane chimes which gave it a futuristic and calm sound. I'd love lucid to follow this direction (maybe taking a cue from shinkansen train chimes for example), and spacialize in Atmos all notifications
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