Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Surround in the car

While I enjoy the use of hard-drive/playback storage of digital files, there really are not many options available for such in the automotive world.  Additionally,  shiny discs provide a portability factor advantage.  Most of our friends - who are not nearly as "cutting edge" as we are - will have at least a DVD or Bluray player in-home.  And most of those units do not accept non-optical media. If you want to share some great surround sound music with said friends, shiny discs are the coin of the realm.

 

So, for me, shiny discs are here to stay for at least the next few years.  Plus, there is something tactile and comforting about being able to pickup a shiny disc and inserting it into the player...

 

-RW-

On Friday, November 9, 2012 6:29:34 AM UTC-5, Blackbirdr wrote:

Two words drive failure. Hard drives crash and they really don't like cars. I for one don't mind the optical format and since its not an option in my car without great expense I will stick to optical 

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On Nov 9, 2012, at 3:37 AM, pj-mckay <john...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Probably does sound great BUT regardless of the format OPTICAL IS DEAD (At least it should be)...  It's had it's day.  Who wants to be loading CD's/DVDs in this day and age when ALL our music is on files?  Lets get with it and stop carrying a bag of optical media to the car at least.

I don't even play CDs in the house.  SACD converted to flac on the NAS (CDs ripped as flac and mp3, DVD-A converted), and played by pch-c200 media player.  I use mp3 on SD cards in  the car and get umpteen albums on something the size of a postage stamp rather than have the joy of all those CD boxes rattling about the dashboard.  I'd love a head unit that played flac though I'm not convinced by all the multi-channel stuff I've heard at home, and often just play 5 channel stereo to fill the room.

If anyone knows of a good head unit that plays flac, multichannel, DAB (recording off DAB would be handy..  love that currently), Bluetooth....    please let us all know. It really is time to embrace the new world and ditch the optical format, on everything.

  

On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 19:23:45 UTC, flytomars wrote:

Hi all,

I wonder how come this issue rarely comes up in this forum-

How many of you have a surround setup in their car?

I have a surround setup in both my house and my car, and I have to admit-

Even though the home system sounds clearer and better, I enjoy my surround more in the car-

Something about the speaker placement, the intimacy of it all, being trully surrounded by the music-

I find it very involving and enjoyable.

I was wondering if anyone could advise me on buying a new 2din HU for my car.

During the begining of this millenium it seemed like the next thing-

just about every car DVD player had DTS and Dolby, and true 5.1 pre-outs.

Now I am searching for a long time and cannot find something that combines all this with a USB that can play movies with surround soundtracks.

I have about 30 DVDs full of DTS encoded surround music- without video, its something like 6-8 full albums per DVD.

If possible, I would like to transfer it all to a USB HD (for example as AVI or MKV with DTS soundtrack).

Is there a HU that fits my desires? the technology exists for several years now...

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