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| 146.1 | | EIFFEL::LIONEL | | Wed Jul 03 1985 15:22 | 16 |
| You've already mentioned most of the points I've seen raised about car CDs.
There are some people who claim that you can't "use" the increased dynamic
range of CDs in cars because of the high noise (from the car, not the CD),
but that doesn't seem to be borne out in tests.
My sentiment is that a car CD player is an expensive gimmick at this point,
and that you would do better to buy a quality cassette deck, with at least
Dolby C, and record tapes off your home CD (if you don't have one, why are
you reading this? :-)). In addition to the difficulty of handling CDs
in the car, you'd have to buy separate copies of the CD for home and car.
With quality cassette tape prices down to under $2, this seems silly. (I
realize that there is some truth in saying that this infringes copyrights...)
Anyway, you should be able to get a sound from a good cassette that will
be nearly indistinguishable from a CD in an automobile.
Steve
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| 146.2 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | | Thu Jul 04 1985 03:00 | 24 |
| re:.1
Why would it be necessary to get a separate copy of a CD for car use?
re:.0
If you look in the notes (both here and in AUDIO.NOT, I believe) on the D-5,
you will see a scheme or two to wire up a D-5 and an amp to your car system.
The advantages are obvious:
(1) You can have one player that will serve as both portable and
car player (and home player, too, for that matter).
(2) Being able to remove the D-5 from the car removes temptation
from some weak soul to steal it.
From the discussion therein, it seems as if the D-5 performs beautifully as
a car player, and it costs much less than the regulation car player. Since
you have to buy a separate amp with a car player (I hadn't known that; it
seems rather strange that they don't have a built-in amp), you don't lose
anything by having to buy one with the D-5.
--- jerry
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| 146.3 | | EIFFEL::LIONEL | | Mon Jul 08 1985 08:56 | 6 |
| My thoughts were that if you had a favorite album, that you'd keep a copy
at home and one in the car, rather than ferry your collection back and
forth. I agree that hooking up a D5 seems like a worthwhile compromise.
The D5 Deluxe even makes that easier by not making you disconnect the
unit from your home system.
Steve
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| 146.4 | | LEFTY::JACKSON | | Mon Jul 08 1985 11:49 | 9 |
| If you must leave your CDs in the car, leave them in the shade! Aside from
the sunlight potentially damaging the disc, there is a possibility that the
car itself may be damaged. Somebody from our plant left a video disc in
his car, and it focused the sunlight entering the car onto the ceiling.
The result is that there is now a hole burned into the ceiling upholstry
of his car! (Apparently the heat warped the disc enough to make it into
a good parabolic mirror).
Jim Jackson
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| 146.5 | | GRDIAN::RIES | | Tue Jul 09 1985 16:56 | 13 |
| I have a NAK 700 in my car as well as a D-5. The difference in sound between
the two is amazing (of course the D-5 sounds better). It is so noticable that
I find myself rarly listening to the cassette. If I had it to do all over again,
I would not have bought the NAK and would have gotten a car CD player instead.
They are now making carrying cases for CDs like they do for cassettes, so
toting them around is no problem. I would recommend a very good amp(s) and
speaker system(s) though if you plan on using a CD player in the car. The
increased dynamic range over a cassette coupled with the higher volume levels
associated with audio in the car can do a number on low powered amps and
cheaper speaker systems. The most increadible difference you will note is
the increased clarity and bass from the CD. I have subwoofers in my car and
if I crank the CD I can get a free back message.
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| 146.6 | | SUMMIT::GUNNERSON | | Fri Aug 02 1985 17:23 | 30 |
| Thank you for the responses.
I think I will forgo CD in my car and go with cassette for two main reasons:
cost and space.
Cost. For the price of doing CD in my car properly, I can buy a very good car
cassette unit (Sony XR780), AND a [moderately priced] home CD! I can buy a CD
player and make tapes for both wife's and my car that will sound much better
than what I get today from my Accutrac 4000, and get to listen to CD in the
house. (I know people would normally have a home CD first, but I had to get a
car stereo, and thought "what the heck!, where's it written home first, car
second?") It would get very expensive to have the system suggested in response
#5 with multi amps, sub-woofers, etc, to get all the benefits of CD. And after
all that it's still in a car, not the best place to listen music. Cassette will
suffice for my purposes.
Space. The car is a Fiero, not exactly a lot of extra space for the CD's
themselves (except passenger's lap and floor). In addition, mounting multiple
amplifiers and sub-woofers would be a real challenge! The Fiero comes with
8X10s in the dash (no baffling there) and 3 inchers in the head rests (no bass
there). No rear panel for subwoofers or larger (better shaped) speakers. I
don't think the Fiero is the best environment to try to take advantage of the CD
dynamic range. It would not accept the required modifications gracefully.
In sum, I don't think for the money I can afford that CD would sound
tremendously better than a good cassette unit playing tapes that were recorded
Again, thanks
jlg
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