We had an ’18 Nissan Pathfinder a couple years ago with a premium Bose system in it. It never sounded particularly good if you were listening to the radio or CD. Volume wise you really couldn’t get satisfactory punch or crank on, but on a long road trip I plugged my iPod in to listen to some albums and it sounded absolutely terrific. In fact, the iPod is the best sounding input in my current Jeep as well. Better clarity, more punch. It’s all mostly lossless stuff, well as lossless as an iPod will let you have, but the point is, if I’m plugging an outboard device with a 3.5 audio cable coming out of a headphone jack and it sounds better than anything else is going on on the head unit, most likely that head unit really sucks, which would come as no surprise to any of the posters here.