Music in your car...

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Decadent_Spectre

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...what do you use to get your PC music to your car?

i know of three options,burn CDs,FM transmitter,In dash player with built in HDD

any other ideas?
 
you can get a cassette adapter and hook up your run-of-the-mill portable player
 
There are 2 basic methods:

1. Either have the audio output from your CD player/Ipod/whatever and then use a cassette adaptor/FM transmitter to relay your audio to your car stereo. This is assuming your car stereo is a cassette player, and you dont want to replace it (?)

2. Just get a dedicated car CD player / MP3 capable CD player / HDD based MP3 player

- As per option 1, Sound quality will suffer significantly with a cassette adaptor. You will be severely restricted by your cassette player's head - most cassette player units barely offer a freq response of 20 - 16Khz and a poor SNR, while a CD is capable of the full 20 - 20Khz. Basically, even if you have the highest quality audio running through a cassette adapator, your audio will be completely confined within the specs of your cassette player - which needless to say will be poor.

An FM transmitter is only marginally better with the frequency response, but the static and other noises in the background wouldn't constitute a high quality listen.

- A dedicated MP3 CD player unit would be your best option. Why not go for that? Audio would be at its best possible - depending only on the quality of your source PC audio files, and of course the CD player unit.

A HDD of course would offer more storage, and leave out the need to keep swapping CDs (but are expensive)
 
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mp3 cd player is the best option out there and quite cheap too ... good pioneer pieces in the 12-15k range...sony sux tho. The pioneer in my car has a wierd problem...it cant play mp3s smoothly @ 160kbps :O...it plays every other bitrate ..even 192kbps..only 160kbps seems to stutter a lot:P
 
many car decks ( and many factory fitted ones too ) have the aux in , u can use that , thatz the best solution to optimal audio quality .
 
Decadent_Spectre said:
i know but at what cost of sound quality?...

dont even go with the iPod...ugh...such horrible sound output...
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no dude...my ipod mini works perfect....quite good sound quality...
 
Decadent_Spectre said:
...what do you use to get your PC music to your car?

i know of three options,burn CDs,FM transmitter,In dash player with built in HDD

any other ideas?
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i use option 1, have a cd-rw that i keep reusing.
 
thanks for the input...as much as i would like a HDD MP3 player...seems they are not so widely available even abroad[and also seem a bit buggy...].....i guess MP3 CD/DVD player then :S....
 
As per option 1, Sound quality will suffer significantly with a cassette adaptor. You will be severely restricted by your cassette player's head - most cassette player units barely offer a freq response of 20 - 16Khz and a poor SNR, while a CD is capable of the full 20 - 20Khz. Basically, even if you have the highest quality audio running through a cassette adapator, your audio will be completely confined within the specs of your cassette player - which needless to say will be poor.

An FM transmitter is only marginally better with the frequency response, but the static and other noises in the background wouldn't constitute a high quality listen.
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Hey eddy, I have tried both options, and frankly, option 2 gives totally s$%^y sound quality while option 1 is pretty good ...given the fact that you can't really enjoy audiophile sound clarity within a running car (due to the inevitable NVH inside a ruuning vehicle), option 1 (cassette adapter) gives pretty good sound ....As good as a dedicated MP3 player sounds...trust me on this....I have tried:

1- MP3 discman with a cassette adapter- good

2- MP3 discman with a FM transmitter- Very poor

3- Dedicated MP3 CD player- As good or as bad as 1
 
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