Rivian - please fix the gen2 audio!

[bfilippo]

Hi Folks,

I know I’m not the first (or last) person to complain about this, but I just have to say it out loud.

I’ve tweaked the EQ and for maybe 30-50% of songs it helps make it sound okay, at least with Apple Music. Spotify, etc sound terrible still.

I’m not a major audiophile, but former radio DJ and general music lover. I just could not imagine the sound in this brand new, relatively fancy, electric truck to be worse than my 2016 Pilot with the regular sound system that I traded in.

Everything else about the truck I love. I try and drive it every day. But I am genuinely upset about the audio quality. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but if Rivian is listening at all, please please focus on improving this or I think folks are going to be turned off. I think it’s a pretty easy logic for most people - if they can’t figure out a solid sound system at this price point, what else might not be great about it? I think they would be wrong, but it seems like a basic feature these days.

Crossing my fingers over here so I can justify trading my Model Y for an R1S at some point.

Sponsored

 

[DaveA]

Hi Folks,

I know I’m not the first (or last) person to complain about this, but I just have to say it out loud.

I’ve tweaked the EQ and for maybe 30-50% of songs it helps make it sound okay, at least with Apple Music. Spotify, etc sound terrible still.

I’m not a major audiophile, but former radio DJ and general music lover. I just could not imagine the sound in this brand new, relatively fancy, electric truck to be worse than my 2016 Pilot with the regular sound system that I traded in.

Everything else about the truck I love. I try and drive it every day. But I am genuinely upset about the audio quality. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but if Rivian is listening at all, please please focus on improving this or I think folks are going to be turned off. I think it’s a pretty easy logic for most people - if they can’t figure out a solid sound system at this price point, what else might not be great about it? I think they would be wrong, but it seems like a basic feature these days.

Crossing my fingers over here so I can justify trading my Model Y for an R1S at some point.

I'm in agreement with you. I actually want to upgrade to a Gen 2, but after checking out the premium audio, its a hard sell. Gen 1 Meridian is pretty great. I really think it can be fixed with some updates. The system has NO treble whatsoever. So strange.

 

[bfilippo]

I'm in agreement with you. I actually want to upgrade to a Gen 2, but after checking out the premium audio, its a hard sell. Gen 1 Meridian is pretty great. I really think it can be fixed with some updates. The system has NO treble whatsoever. So strange.

Exactly, no treble, bizarre.

I even hesitated for a moment to swap trucks for one with premium audio in a color I wasn’t as excited about, but folks were already saying it was still not great with premium, so I felt like it was a potentially wasted nearly $2k and I wouldn’t have my color choice.

Sponsored