Great drive, but...
It drives great, but I’m a big audio guy. I wouldn’t consider myself an audiophile, but I like music enough to know when something doesn’t sound right. When I tested the audio in the front row before buying the car, I thought it sounded pretty good for the most part. Vocals were clear, decent mids, and bass was pretty solid. Satisfied with the audio in the driver seat, I didn’t bother testing in the audio in the back, because I assumed that a high quality company like Harman Infinity, it would at least sound similar to the front. I was wrong... a few nights after buying the car, I got home from work and I wanted to hear what my passengers were hearing in the back. I like modern music, and a lot of pop, edm, rap, depends on bass. When the bass drop came while I was sitting in the back seat, there was nothing... literally nothing. No matter how much I adjusted the EQ settings, I got nothing. Even my friends noticed it! I took it to Hyundai and told them it was nothing that I’ve heard before (that is, hear such an enormous difference between the front and back seats). The guy literally looked at it for about 5 minutes and came back. He said “All speakers are working as intended.” I didn’t doubt what he said, but it just showed me how little time Hyundai engineers spent in the audio process. It doesn’t show much effort. They definitely need take into account ALL listeners in the car, not just the front. I understand that there are more speakers up front than in the second row, but it’s still nothing that I’ve ever heard. Bass is a big part of music in today’s music world, and it’s nonexistent in the second row. If I had tested the audio in the second row before I bought the car, then I probably wouldn’t have gotten it at all. For people who like modern music, Hyundai audio engineers missed it big with this one. And for this reason, I’m taking off a star.
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