Gracenote is not so good
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From: Charlton, MA
2016 E400 Coupe Mars Red
Gracenote is not so good
One of the most important things in a car for me is the sound system I'm a musician and a music nut. So yeah the HK Logic7 system is not the best out there but I can live with the less that stellar sound. But frankly Gracenote is terrible. I play most of my music off a very large USB drive, have upwards of 600 full CD rips on there all as high bit rate MP3's. Gracenote can't seem to put full CD's together all the time even though they are arranged in the same folders. Many times I will get multiple covers for one album, each with some of the songs on that one album. But it's NEVER consistent, sometime one album will be split in two and other times the same exact album will all be together, I find this a real pain in the ****.
Anyone else notice this...?
Anyone else notice this...?
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Poot - LOL, my car before this was an Infiniti Q50 with the premium Bose sound system and it was noticeable better than the system in the E400 I have now. Much wider frequency response and far deeper bass. That said I'm fine with the sound it's the darn Gracenote that's driving me crazy. Spotify or Pandora and even Sirius are just not an option for me, they are far too repetitive and the overall sound quality is SOOOO compressed it makes the HK system really sound terrible.
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I use Amazon Prime Music with downloaded songs on my Galaxy S6 and connect via Bluetooth. Better music quality than the Internet streamed music like Pandora / Spotify or Satellite Radio. Decent ability to search / create playlists / get song info / etc and also has the lyrics in case you want to sing along and don't know the words.
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Poot - LOL, my car before this was an Infiniti Q50 with the premium Bose sound system and it was noticeable better than the system in the E400 I have now. Much wider frequency response and far deeper bass. That said I'm fine with the sound it's the darn Gracenote that's driving me crazy. Spotify or Pandora and even Sirius are just not an option for me, they are far too repetitive and the overall sound quality is SOOOO compressed it makes the HK system really sound terrible.
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SnakeDR - I'm a bit of a music snob frankly. I'm a musician and an audiophile, I'm the crazy guy that spent 20K on the sound system in his living room. My wife would be happy with a transistor radio. I spend about 1.5 hours in my car each and every weekday so quality music reproduction is important to me. Like I said the HK system in my 2016 E400 is not the best I have heard but it's acceptable, I may look to replace some (if not all) of the speakers at some point. Just make sure that you turn Logic7 OFF on all inputs. With it turned on the sound field (left / right imaging) is seriously broken and lower frequencies are very muddy sounding.
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SnakeDR - I'm a bit of a music snob frankly. I'm a musician and an audiophile, I'm the crazy guy that spent 20K on the sound system in his living room. My wife would be happy with a transistor radio. I spend about 1.5 hours in my car each and every weekday so quality music reproduction is important to me. Like I said the HK system in my 2016 E400 is not the best I have heard but it's acceptable, I may look to replace some (if not all) of the speakers at some point. Just make sure that you turn Logic7 OFF on all inputs. With it turned on the sound field (left / right imaging) is seriously broken and lower frequencies are very muddy sounding.
I've always wondered what the systems sound like in cars that I consider out of my reach. I feel like, for the E classes price range, the HK system, as you said, is acceptable. To me, I thought it was unacceptable in its last iteration, so the latest was much better. I don't believe I have ever heard the Q50 system. The closet would be the M35 car, and it was ok.