slimfast;479872 Wrote: > Why on earth is FLAC important in a _car_? > > Is your car so amazingly quiet and your ICE system so fantastically > hi-fi that you are seriously telling me that there is some sort of > noticeable difference between FLAC and high bitrate AAC (on an iPod) > when plugged into the aux-in socket??? > > And that this difference warrants hacking up a Squeezebox in some sort > of harness (which sits on the passenger seat), and carrying a laptop > with two external drives as a server? > > > > You can fit an _awful_ lot of music onto a 160gig iPod - more than > you're ever likely to listen to when you are driving - but I guess > having '4000 CDs' is pretty important for a car entertainment system. > > By all means rig up whatever system you like with your own kit in your > own car but it's delusional to think that there's any sort of wider > demand for such. A simple iPod (or other HDD mp3 player) hooked into > head unit provides all the functionality that 99% of the market is going > to want and a hell of a lot less hassle.
I don't disagree that 99% of the market will be happy with an iPod solution. I have never been in that 99% btw. I should also admt that I haven't much experience with the higher bit rate mp3's but I'm sure they won't sound as good as flac's on my home system. Perhaps I could get by with less music in my car, but what subset would I use there? It would be too hard to narrow down for me. Obviously I don't listen to all my music on a regular basis, but when I get the urge it's nice to be able to choose what I like to hear. Of course I use the same data set in the car that I use with my home systems including with the Transporter. Btw, the difference in sound with the Transporter vs the Squeezebox is not at all insignificant to me, but that's another discussion. I realize that many people think I'm nuts, but it's been that way most of my adult life. I built my first higher end car stereo back in 1976 when I installed a Crown D-60 and (4) ADS speakers into my BMW driven by a tuner and a Nakamichi 550. Most folks thought I was nuts back then, but it sounded better than anything I could have bought off the shelf. In 1983 I designed and built a 200 watt per channel system into the same car and folks thought I was nuts again, but boy did it sound good. I basically bought my Lexus because of the Mark Levinson sound system and once again people thought I was nuts to buy a car for such a silly reason. Putting the Squeezebox into that system was a no brainer and still people think I'm nuts. Well that's just fine with me. I'm the only one whose opinion matters as I'm the one doing the listening. I should add that as good as the Squeezebox sounds throught the Aux in jack, a CD played in the dash player sounds better, with slightly more impact in the bass. I attribute this to the limitations of the Aux input jack and thought hard about using a SP/DIF interface. Of course the Levinson system runs SP/DIF from the head end to the trunk mounted amps, but I abandoned that idea because it would sacrafice cell phone muting and some other features. Thought there is a difference between the Aux jack and the CD in the dash, it is not at all major, and likely much less than the difference between playing flac's and mp3 files. I can spot digital artifacts a mile away and they drive me nuts. Remember that I'm not your average listener. I was a critical listener in the music industry for years and that is how I have ended up where I am today. Is my mobile Squeezebox a bit of a kluge? No doubt about it. But it's portable and I've taken it on vacations and even on a friends boat for parties. Am I ridiculous for doing this? Perhaps as viewed by many here, but that has never stopped me. Without people like me or others pushing the envelope many products would not advance to where they are today. One more thing. Yes I'm a new member here, but I have been using Squeezeboxes for years since the early days of the product. I generally avoid these types of forums because I'm often misunderstood and tire of explaining myself to people who don't grasp what I'm about. For those that are interested I generally have plenty to say in the Steve Hoffman Music Forums. www.stevehoffman.tv -- dsclar 1 Transporter, 4 SB Classics, 1 Boom, 1 Duet, 1 SB Classic in Lexus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsclar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33404 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
