Thread: What are you guys using for studio quality sound in your cars ?

Originally Posted by MaXius

Beat me to it, I was going to say that too. Have you tried plugging in a CD player just to see the difference of what you're feeding into the system? The problem might not be the system at all!

I'm not so fussy about my mp3's, but I do encode them at 384 / 256k where I can. I do notice a difference between that and the standard.

anything less then 320kbs mp3 can get pretty bad when you have really high end tweeters. mp3's are awesome for ipods and boomboxes, but FLAC is transparent on any system. when i can, i always buy or download in flac format.

Originally Posted by trader007

anything less then 320kbs mp3 can get pretty bad when you have really high end tweeters. mp3's are awesome for ipods and boomboxes, but FLAC is transparent on any system. when i can, i always buy or download in flac format.

I'm with you...any compressed, lossy audio is for portable players, period!
I prefer FLAC as well, but I convert it all over to WMA Pro 9 lossless, simply for the reason of compatibility with Windows (ID tag, etc...)

Originally Posted by WuNgUn

I'm with you...any compressed, lossy audio is for portable players, period!
I prefer FLAC as well, but I convert it all over to WMA Pro 9 lossless, simply for the reason of compatibility with Windows (ID tag, etc...)

Winamp FTW!

Originally Posted by WuNgUn

I'm with you...any compressed, lossy audio is for portable players, period!
I prefer FLAC as well, but I convert it all over to WMA Pro 9 lossless, simply for the reason of compatibility with Windows (ID tag, etc...)

its not a bad idea, because even with the flac filters and plugins installed, you still dont get full tag support with flac and windows media player. i want flac to become standard though, thats really the only reason i dont use wma lossless... best part is though no matter what format eventually becomes the most popular, either side can re-encode to it and not worry about anything. lossless is the only way to go imo.

Originally Posted by trader007

dynamat the **** out of your car, if you dont do that you wont get good sound from any speakers.

Or you could ***** on your money instead

Originally Posted by joey7415963

Or you could ***** on your money instead

Isn't that what audiophiles do every day?

I hear $100 bills work even better then dynamat

Originally Posted by malcom2073

Isn't that what audiophiles do every day?

lol!

Originally Posted by trader007

dynamat the **** out of your car, if you dont do that you wont get good sound from any speakers.

agreed. probably the most "bang for your buck" in doing this. And as others said, a car is not really conducive to studio sound. It's like trying to polish a turd