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Originally Posted by Imp
You're claiming purity of sound on a CD over an MP3, while in a moving car? 
When you're driving on the road in a car, the sound quality will be effected *anyways*. There will be additional noises that will be introduced that will mess with *something* in the spectrum... tire noises, exhaust noises, engine noises, wife/gf noises, wind across windows, etc... that will muddy the sound.
The only time you're going to hear, actually... hear the difference, will be with headphones or a quiet setting (car off while in a garage).
Note, I'm not discounting being able to hear the difference, I can also... but being able to hear the subtle differences requires a completely controlled setting, which a moving car is not.
And thinking about you keeping those CDs in your car and moving them in and out... what if I told you, you don't have to do that anymore, you can leave them in the house where they won't get stolen. 
--kC |
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Originally Posted by GTIanZ28
All of this! 
I have a pretty decent home stereo. Yes, CD's sound better on a good CD player with the associated components vs any streaming, MP3, or TV audio. (Lossless formats are definitely close enough for home audio IMHO.)
But, you'll never realize that difference in a "stock" car audio system. Doubt it would make much difference in a true high end car audio system either for all the above mentioned reasons.
Now if you don't mind. I'd like to know where you park your car...... I could use a few hundred CD's. |
First off you're both assuming I'm sticking with the stock sound system. That is the first thing I'm tearing out - the entire Bose system. I will be replacing the speakers with Focals and the amps with JL Audios. One 4 channel for the front and rears, and one 600 monoblock for the JL Audio Hertz subwoofer.
Which leads to my second point, that when you have quality components and high powered amplifiers running them, you WILL hear a difference,
in your car at 70 mph, between MP3 and CD. If you don't you simply don't care or pay attention. That's fine, that is your opinion. But I've repaired and installed car and home audio for 20 years. I've met many people in the electronics repair business from the 1970s, and from them I have listened to every old and new format, from quadrophonic records and 4 channel receivers from the 1970s on through all the digital formats today. Tube amps, electrostatic speakers, mini disc, DAT, reel-to-reel, you name it.
Trying not to go on and on here, but the truth is CD does sound better than MP3 on a good system. Factory systems are all pretty much flat, average, and useless. Even the Bose. It will be the first thing out of my Camaro.