Not that 99.9% could tell the difference until it's quite compressed.
Mark Levinson audio
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From: QC
I will respectfully disagree. Its a car, not a sound studio, so I don't expect it to sound like one, and sirius sounds a whole lot better than am/fm to me.
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From: NC
It’s not as good as what we have in my Honda Civic after only $2500 upgrades to the stock system.
But I find it acceptable for the price of the car.
98% of people are fine if any sort of system makes noise they recognize as music and does not distort too badly. Only going to get so good in such a space. The Naim system in the Bentley excels in natural character, not full blown digital like in the LC.
I have never used an outboard DAC between my phone and the car. Have subscribed to Tidal just this week and have a new Cambridge Audio Azur 851 with the best DAC I’ve had in my home. Definitely another level. Our old Klipsch never sounded so good.
But I find it acceptable for the price of the car.
98% of people are fine if any sort of system makes noise they recognize as music and does not distort too badly. Only going to get so good in such a space. The Naim system in the Bentley excels in natural character, not full blown digital like in the LC.
I have never used an outboard DAC between my phone and the car. Have subscribed to Tidal just this week and have a new Cambridge Audio Azur 851 with the best DAC I’ve had in my home. Definitely another level. Our old Klipsch never sounded so good.
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Joined: Mar 2021
Posts: 361
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From: Arizona
It’s not as good as what we have in my Honda Civic after only $2500 upgrades to the stock system.
But I find it acceptable for the price of the car.
98% of people are fine if any sort of system makes noise they recognize as music and does not distort too badly. Only going to get so good in such a space. The Naim system in the Bentley excels in natural character, not full blown digital like in the LC.
I have never used an outboard DAC between my phone and the car. Have subscribed to Tidal just this week and have a new Cambridge Audio Azur 851 with the best DAC I’ve had in my home. Definitely another level. Our old Klipsch never sounded so good.
But I find it acceptable for the price of the car.
98% of people are fine if any sort of system makes noise they recognize as music and does not distort too badly. Only going to get so good in such a space. The Naim system in the Bentley excels in natural character, not full blown digital like in the LC.
I have never used an outboard DAC between my phone and the car. Have subscribed to Tidal just this week and have a new Cambridge Audio Azur 851 with the best DAC I’ve had in my home. Definitely another level. Our old Klipsch never sounded so good.
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listening to my system, i will agree. The Audio system in our LC500's is pretty underwhelming. It lacks pretty much everything in the frequency range. Reminds me of a time when i drove my parents Old Cutlas Supreme and the speakers didn't work. I had brought a portable DVD player and $5 Koss speakers for them.
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