Re: Portable MP3 question

From: tempus fugit (toccata_at_no.spam.ciaccess.com)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:10:06 -0500

No.
An mp3 is a compressed format, which means that some (or a lot) of the data
needed to reproduce the sound is not present. That being said, if you encode
your mp3s at a high enough bit rate (and thus higher quality) you may not be
able to tell a whole lot of difference, particularly considering that car
audio is generally not state of the art, esp. compared to the quiet
listening room you may be in at home.

I play mp3s through my home stereo sometimes, and the quality is certainly
acceptable. However, the sound is also degraded somewhat by the fact that
I'm (and you will be) running the headphone out to the line in of my stereo
(impedance mismatch?).

The signal to noise doesn't seem to suffer, from my experience.

<stryped@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1100632230.111047.39920@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Will playing an mp3 player through my input jack in the front of my car
> cd player have the same sound quality as a regular cd? Is the signal
> to
> noise ratio pretty much the same? Just curious.
> What about playing it through an fm transmitter to my car stereo?
> 

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