Mark Levinson 21-speaker audio sounds terrible on the GX 550 Luxury +

[JustinB]

I wish the system would adjust to which way you like it. To me it gives out more treble and less bass. I have a 2014 GX and that baby thumps so I have a really good comparison and the new GX sucks with and lacks bass. Yea, I turned off surround and did all the techy details with no avail. I feel it lacks sub woofers

Definitely lacks subwoofers or at least feels like it. There’s no omnidirectional bass feeling. It’s all coming from the front doors.

I’ll say that in home audio Mark Levinson products are often associated with reference sound, which is supposed to be very “accurate”. More accurate does not mean more enjoyable.

 

[yesitsqk]

This is somewhat concerning to me. I’m hoping I’m happy with the ML that opted to get. I had a bang and olufsen in my old RS7 and it was fantastic.

 

[AGP]

This is somewhat concerning to me. I’m hoping I’m happy with the ML that opted to get. I had a bang and olufsen in my old RS7 and it was fantastic.

This is somewhat concerning to me. I’m hoping I’m happy with the ML that opted to get. I had a bang and olufsen in my old RS7 and it was fantastic.

Hate to share… but Lexus ML pre 2022 is worlds beyond the current premium (21+sp) system. I don’t know what happened. FWIW, we are a 2004,2009,2012,2021,2022 and 2024 Lexus GX and LX household and our two newest are complete fails on the sound system from prior AMAZING ML systems. It’s not a downgrade from my perspective but a flat out failure and disaster from my perspective. This is our 8th Lexus across GX and LX models (current garage is 2009 GX, 2022 LX and 2024 GX) and the 2009 ML system (all upgraded) is the best now. I traded in a 2016 XC90 for the ‘24 GX and the sound system feels like I went to a GM product.