Lexicon AM Radio Weak?

[landtuna]

2012 R-spec. I recently took a round trip from Phoenix to L.A. and return. Along the way (I-10) I constantly tuned in both AM and FM to see what the range of the Lexicon radio was and was severely disappointed. Compared to car radio's I have owned in the past the Lexicon performed very poorly on both....but the AM side was almost completely dead. The FM side seems to work just fine in an urban setting but the range outside city limits is not up to modern standards. The AM side is almost useless in either scenario.

I posted my findings on a radio board I frequent and have discovered other testers have verified my findings. One member, who tests cars for a living, recently drove a Kia K9000 and had the same experience (with the same radio). Switched to a Mitsubishi <something or other with a different radio> and was able to pull in AM's from 170 miles away.

Anyone with a Lexicon system have better results?

 

[Mark_888]

2012 R-spec. I recently took a round trip from Phoenix to L.A. and return. Along the way (I-10) I constantly tuned in both AM and FM to see what the range of the Lexicon radio was and was severely disappointed. Compared to car radio's I have owned in the past the Lexicon performed very poorly on both....but the AM side was almost completely dead. The FM side seems to work just fine in an urban setting but the range outside city limits is not up to modern standards. The AM side is almost useless in either scenario.

I posted my findings on a radio board I frequent and have discovered other testers have verified my findings. One member, who tests cars for a living, recently drove a Kia K9000 and had the same experience (with the same radio). Switched to a Mitsubishi <something or other with a different radio> and was able to pull in AM's from 170 miles away.

Anyone with a Lexicon system have better results?

I think all the Genesis radios (FM/AM) are poor on the 2009-2014 Genesis. Not sure about 2015 model.

 

[Bill K]

The HD radio on my 13 is fantastic.
The FM range is the same as any other car that I have owned.
Don't listen to AM, so I can't comment on that.

 

[Mark_888]

The HD radio on my 13 is fantastic.
The FM range is the same as any other car that I have owned.
Don't listen to AM, so I can't comment on that.

If there is strong signal the Genesis FM sounds fine, but it is not good on less than strong signals, or with alternate channel selectivity. I don't have any problem with the sound quality per se when there is a strong signal.

 

[veed]

tuna - very similar experience. and if listening to (uber) strong local AM, distortion (gain overload?) is a regular occurrence. so too strong = bad, and too weak = bad. thing is also very susceptible to power line interference. interestingly, AM distortion doesn't happen in HD mode.

overall sound quality is high enough that i usually overlook it, but it *is* enough to be noticeable and annoying in fringe areas.

 

[DRS]

AM is a total mess.

 

[BkBlue]

As long as you have a smartphone and decent 3G or better data signal you could just listen to your favorite stations (incl. out of market) through an app like WunderRadio or iHeartRadio through iPod or Bluetooth audio interfaces.

Not as good as HD but usually better than traditional AM/FM.

 

[Jerryss]

AM is completely useless in this car. I never had a car that couldn't pick up ANY AM stations. not that I really listen to AM, but it's odd