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Originally Posted by Leo72793
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Ugh, probably a forgotten mislabeled ad at best. He's a Vendor, the product is PAC
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Originally Posted by CreeperRS
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Originally Posted by BSR-1
Just read through the thread and notice only a couple of people notice that MP3 (even on the highest settings) sound like shit, no matter how it's connected.
Some people just don't have an ear and will never know the difference but I think most have just become accustomed to "High Tech", Modern, sound reproduction.
When I first copied my CD's onto MP3's (Highest possible quality) and plugged it in, it was awful, just not worth listening to.
It took some time but I found a lossless method of copying the CD's.
It sounds WAY better. Perhaps this may help some of you who haven't found a work around?
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Don't get me started lol ...clueless people were cheering MP3 during the final stages of developed in the 90s. The irony of it all, it was created as data compression (MPEG), not audio. Audiophiles were livid as big business kept pushing and pushing and pushing, literally destroying sound quality we haven't seen the likes of now for almost 20 years. Something mind blowing ridiculous, like over 40% of the music is deleted in MP3. You can and always could rip cds to wav (lossless) files all day long, but people wanted compression.
Big industry (mainly Apple) stood tall and flat out lied through their teeth to the public in order to push technology and digital sales while absolutely destroying audio quality in the process. One of the reasons many people hate Apple, they were the primary promoters of compression based music. It sounded like crap, but billions across the world had never experienced or understood what quality audio was. Was also a minor reason to the demise of Circuit City, hi-fidelity audio equipment sales went from $100k/month to $10k after Winamp and Napster. The idea of 1000's of songs on a handheld device which sounded "as good or better than the radio" was accepted like the reinvention of the wheel or something. Hence, the birth of the iPod and explosion of Apple.
Today with obscene drive compression ratios, Audio quality is slowly making a comeback. The irony of it all, music is recorded in lossless form and then destroyed to make 128khz MP3s but now, Apple's new snake oil is iFlac or some bs instead of passing you the original recording in it's original form.
Don't get caught up in the hype, Apple lossless was created as a means to control customers and has zero benefits over FLAC. Since most anyone born after 1990 (Millennial?) has NFC what true audio sounds like (because they've never heard it), they all think Apple is the second coming of Jesus when it comes to audio. They couldn't be further from the truth and Apple doesn't give 2c about pure audiophile recordings unless they can scam an artists and customers out through their marketing control strong arm tactics, but don't tell them that.
The greatest compatibility, convenience and best quality is going to be a 320khz MP3 on a USB port on the front side of a head unit using a 24bit DAC. ...and no, it is not Applecrapanything. The minimum qualification to meet hi-fidelity standards is 192khz, which is in itself a challenge since most MP3s are recorded at 128khz (with 40% sonic loss). Even if you are able to obtain hi quality recordings, you're pretty much screwed on equipment. The best transmission line is TOSLINK, then DP then HDMI (and much heated debates over the insignificant differences between the three), however such expense was never justified (read: Sales) for car audio use here in the United States over digital lines. Yes, such equipment exists and is for sale outside of America. Unless you are actively attempting to create your own hi quality audio library, you are basically fubar'd when it comes to hi-fidelity car audio today. Even if you do, you will meet a brick wall once you plug it into the analog equipment available.