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Old 06-15-2009, 03:28 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by zuzu_ View Post
Vibrations and bumps in a car will b0rk your 3.5" hard drive very quickly. Even 2.5" hard drives, with vibration protection (meant for laptops) tend to die rather quickly in a car environment. (Doubly so if you leave it in the car -- in the heat and cold.)

Also, will you have such an audiophile soundsystem to appreciate the difference between MP3 (or AAC) and lossless / WAV in your car? If not, the bottleneck for quality will be your speakers / amp, not the source files.

My opinion on pragmatism says that either you should get an 8GB USB stick (e.g. Imation Atom, $35 USD) to plug into the USB port of these head units, or put a 16GB MicroSD card in your Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone and listen to music stored there through Bluetooth A2DP.
Fair enough. Just getting a little anal on sound quality. I suppose if I use a good mp3 decoder I should be ok. Still, it would be cool to have dual-layer dvd's with .wav files, or a Blu-Ray disc with same...but anyhow..I have no problem with burning MP3's to CDRW's either.

I'm looking at Can Tire or Future Shop because zero interest no payments for 6 months.
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