[s-cars] iPod in S4

[Mark Strangways]

After the PHAT I half expect a few SLAMMED and maybe some RICE.
Thank God it was there.

I think car audio is certainly coming leaps and bounds, as it needs to. It
would be awesome to have firewire, fibre optic, whatever kind of digital
connection to a plug and play host.
Damn, I remember when I was in my late teens thinking about how to keep the
stream in the digital domain until the very last possible moment. I actually
visualized the concept of having the speaker average out a digital amp's
outputs.
When here we have Class D audio amps... Now I must assume they are good for
bass , and bass only as the filter system can't be that good to clean up all
those sharp edges. But none the less, we now have very efficient digitally
driven class d amps.
"The Future's so bright I gotta wear shades" ;-)

Mark S
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve powers" <steve at thepowers.net>
To: "'Mark Strangways'" <strangconst at rogers.com>; "'CyberPoet'"
<thecyberpoet at cyberpoet.net>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: [s-cars] iPod in S4


> Mark:
>
> >  I agree with what you are saying, and just didn't want to
> >  take it to that depth :-)
> >
> >  I generalized (which is bad) my definition of MP3's here, as
> >  most (this is changing fast) are 128 kbit compression and
> >  suck. I can tell the difference between CD and FM, as most
> >  can. And that's where
> >  128- 160 kbps MP3's are sound quality wise.
> >  I like the format, I like the idea. But after downloading my
> >  share of them, I am often left wondering why I did so.
> >
> >  This same discussion applies to DVD vs. DivX or SVCD or
> >  other video / audio compression algorithms. It's a great
> >  digital world we have. It's only getting better.
> >
> >  Mark
>
> VW has PHAT Audio. Basically a disk drive in your car w/
> removable player. Myself, I'd want something which plugs in
> and also works with the existing user interface. (PHAT should)
>
> iPods are great, but doing the UI at speed would be problematic.
> The other issue with iPods are that they don't support WMA.
>
> I work with IEEE 1394. We've seen car audio products which support
> it. Plugging a 1394 HDD into your car's audio system and having
> that system recognize the hardware and the media content on it
> are what we really want, is it not?
>
> BTW - nearly all of the major players will be providing 1394 networks
> in their future (another year or two away) models.
>
> Steve Powers
>