SV: Looking for matching headunit

[Jorgen Karlsson]

Drew wrote:

> In my (albeit a bit noisy cars) I can't tell the difference between Mp3's
> sampled at 160KHz and CDs.  128 is acceptable, less than that and I'll
> listen to the AM radio thank-you very much.

Which head unit do you have? I have found that the Pioneer has a lousy MP3
decoder. I have tried comparing an MP3 file and a CD burned with the same
MP3 as source material and the original CD the mp3 was ripped from. Both the
CD's sound almost the same but the MP3 sounds like crap.

To find which mp3 settings the Pioneer doesn't support I have tried using
several different mp3 encoders, different bitrates, FBR and VBR without
hearing any difference. The MP3 always sound like crap when played through
this head unit.

Jorgen