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Your best ever car radio?
Re: Your best ever car radio?
Are people actually expecting "good sound" from a tuner? The signal is compressed and the top octave is chopped; it cannot sound "good", not ever.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
It can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
Definitely a vast improvement over AM. Still not better than Sirius XM though. I mean really. My mom subscribes to it for no practical reason. The reason why you get it is because you either want more kinds of programming, or you want no commercials. She's perfectly fine with commercials on FM, yet she still listens to the same three channels on SXM: Hits 1, Z100, and KIIS. I don't really like her taste in music, first of all, but of course I'd never say it to her face. But she could just use FM, but she still subs to SXM for reasons not even she knows.audiophile wrote:It can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
Anyway, getting back on topic, I hate SXM's compression. It sounds like a tin-can phone. Just use FM. Unless you're getting it for the great programming.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
Re: Your best ever car radio?
They didn't have cell phones with near-flawless audio in 1933FET-500 wrote:You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
Cellphones and near-flawless what? You're not an engineer I'm going to guess.F-Squared wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:53 amThey didn't have cell phones with near-flawless audio in 1933FET-500 wrote:You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
Blaming that on Howard Stern.... He has all of their money. They're out or bandwidth.F-Squared wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:37 pmDefinitely a vast improvement over AM. Still not better than Sirius XM though. I mean really. My mom subscribes to it for no practical reason. The reason why you get it is because you either want more kinds of programming, or you want no commercials. She's perfectly fine with commercials on FM, yet she still listens to the same three channels on SXM: Hits 1, Z100, and KIIS. I don't really like her taste in music, first of all, but of course I'd never say it to her face. But she could just use FM, but she still subs to SXM for reasons not even she knows.audiophile wrote:It can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
Anyway, getting back on topic, I hate SXM's compression. It sounds like a tin-can phone. Just use FM. Unless you're getting it for the great programming.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
Phones often lack bass response, FM tuners themselves do not.FET-500 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:51 amYou can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
A 59 used Sapphire radios as stock, not Blaupunkt. They were a popular aftermath option.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
Yep, I'm not. Thought I shouldn't have said that.FET-500 wrote:Cellphones and near-flawless what? You're not an engineer I'm going to guess.F-Squared wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:53 amThey didn't have cell phones with near-flawless audio in 1933FET-500 wrote:You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Re: Your best ever car radio?
Those guys are the VW experts... I kinda hate them and their inability to control camber but the radios were neato. The restos for VW of America were all done at my sister's house.
Re: Your best ever car radio?
The audio transmitted by phones is really truncated; a severely compressed passband. No bass, no treble and no dynamic range.F-Squared wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 4:49 pmYep, I'm not. Thought I shouldn't have said that.FET-500 wrote:Cellphones and near-flawless what? You're not an engineer I'm going to guess.F-Squared wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:53 amThey didn't have cell phones with near-flawless audio in 1933FET-500 wrote:You can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
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Telephonic audio is terrible by design.
Re: Your best ever car radio?
Phones operate in a passband from 300 to around 3.5khz. There is no bass.audiophile wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 1:52 pmPhones often lack bass response, FM tuners themselves do not.FET-500 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 7:51 amYou can do that with a phone...audiophile wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 7:45 pmIt can sound good. Remember the inventor of FM touted the fact you could tell the difference between the sound of a crosscut saw or a rip saw. I think that qualifies as good.
Re: Your best ever car radio?
What era radios? Sapphire or Blaupunkt? My buddy maintains the vintage VWoA fleet for them.
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