I was talking with a co-worker who has a Model 3, and he was telling me that his bass rattled his entire car. I wanted to put that to the test, so we went to his car, put on Five For Fighting Superman, and within the first 30 seconds, there are 2 deep, long bass notes that with any kind of good subwoofer system will rattle the walls. It got to those notes, and we both could barely hear and definitely could not feel them. He was shocked. We then threw on Krewella - Live for the Night - which also has a big bass drop near the beginning of the song - and the same result.
I then told him to pull up "Bass for Bassheadz" from YouTube (the one with the blue cover), and told him to start at the 2 minute mark. In my experience, playing that album almost forces the subwoofer to come out of a deep slumber, and sure enough, just like my car, it was OBVIOUS that the car had a subwoofer, and the entire thing shook. It was a clear/obvious difference of when it was working vs not working at all. I verified that he did have his settings set at 7.5 for the bass, and he agreed that after hearing the bass song and what it did vs songs that had typically big bass drops that seemed non-existent, there definitely seems to be a problem of the bass being neutered in specific situations. In other words, I converted somebody who was very confident the bass was amazing into somebody who realized that the sub didn't seem to be performing as a sub should.
I did this exact same test with a different coworker as well, and we had the exact same results. Bass was great for bass-specific designed songs (bass for bassheadz), but when playing typical music, even with big bass hits, outside of the front speakers that DO have decent bass, the sub didn't seem to exist.
My challenge to somebody who says their subwoofer works as expected - play Five For Fighting - Superman, on your home theater system, assuming you have a good sub, and listen to how hard the first bass notes hit within the first 30ish seconds of the song. Then do the same test in the Model 3. Can you get a reasonable/similar effect? For 3 Model 3s I've tested so far, it isn't even remotely similar (aka in the Model 3, you can barely even hear/know there is a big bass note dropping).
I then told him to pull up "Bass for Bassheadz" from YouTube (the one with the blue cover), and told him to start at the 2 minute mark. In my experience, playing that album almost forces the subwoofer to come out of a deep slumber, and sure enough, just like my car, it was OBVIOUS that the car had a subwoofer, and the entire thing shook. It was a clear/obvious difference of when it was working vs not working at all. I verified that he did have his settings set at 7.5 for the bass, and he agreed that after hearing the bass song and what it did vs songs that had typically big bass drops that seemed non-existent, there definitely seems to be a problem of the bass being neutered in specific situations. In other words, I converted somebody who was very confident the bass was amazing into somebody who realized that the sub didn't seem to be performing as a sub should.
I did this exact same test with a different coworker as well, and we had the exact same results. Bass was great for bass-specific designed songs (bass for bassheadz), but when playing typical music, even with big bass hits, outside of the front speakers that DO have decent bass, the sub didn't seem to exist.
My challenge to somebody who says their subwoofer works as expected - play Five For Fighting - Superman, on your home theater system, assuming you have a good sub, and listen to how hard the first bass notes hit within the first 30ish seconds of the song. Then do the same test in the Model 3. Can you get a reasonable/similar effect? For 3 Model 3s I've tested so far, it isn't even remotely similar (aka in the Model 3, you can barely even hear/know there is a big bass note dropping).
