Who has Dynaudio?

[AlanH]

Which is why a £50 HDMI lead will give 10x the picture quality of a £5 HDMI lead. Allegedly...

[Rolfe]

What did I say about homoeopathy for audiophiles? 

Rolfe.

[DL]

iTunes does in fact offer the Apple Lossless Encoder. Obviously with a lossless (as opposed to "lossy") encoder, the file size will be considerably larger.

Yeah its better but not the same as lossless but then ipods were designed as portable devices where storage is key not audio quality. They are perfect for listening to through headphones just less so when used as an audio source.

I'd bet you couldn't tell the difference between a CD and the same lossless encoded track played through a new generation iPod hooked up to any of the Golf stereos. I'd even bet that no one here could differentiate between a 320K encoded mp3 and a CD, especially in a car that was actually moving; you could probably drop that to much more coarse encoding too and get away with it for most driving conditions or even any time the engine is running.

Seems like there's some subjective audiophile ignorance showing its ugly head here. I'd bet you'd even recommend people to use $$$ external DACs too. 

For those that don't know, there's a lot of ignorance and myth in the audio world, considerable amounts of which is championed by "high end" A/V salesmen that make their biggest profits from selling ridiculously over priced cables to the unsuspecting public.   

No no no Adrian youv'e got me all wrong, I agree with you completley. What I do is about as far removed from the audiophile world as you can get. The difference between lossless and 320 kbps is so minimaml to the human ear that most probably couldn't hear but the difference between normal ipod compression, lets say 64-128 there is a huge difference.
The audiophile business is ridiculas and one that I'm no part of. I just sell very expensive products to the very wealthy. Looks and badge and just as important as performance 

[DWGTI]

I run a high end A/V business and I have listened to both standard and Dynaudio and there is a fair increase in performance with the Dyaudio. What I would add is that if you play all your music through an ipod the quality will always be compromised than if you listen through CD. If for example I sat in a standard GTI and played a well recorded CD in the RCD 310 or RCD 510 then downloaded the same album onto an ipod through itunes and played it through the Dyaudio system it would sound better in the standard car.
Itunes compresses the music down to around 128 kbps, dependent on your settings, whereas a standard CD has a compression rate of around 1600 kbps.
If you want to get a better sound with your ipods go into the itunes set up and select the download compression to max which I think is around 320 kbps which is a lot better than default settings.

Where on the itunes settings is the download compression rate. I noticed the sound quality coming from my iphone was pants!

[AdrianM]

No no no Adrian youv'e got me all wrong, I agree with you completley. What I do is about as far removed from the audiophile world as you can get. The difference between lossless and 320 kbps is so minimaml to the human ear that most probably couldn't hear but the difference between normal ipod compression, lets say 64-128 there is a huge difference.
The audiophile business is ridiculas and one that I'm no part of. I just sell very expensive products to the very wealthy. Looks and badge and just as important as performance 

Okay, sorry dude, my mistake and my sincere apologies for tarring you with the audiophile brush. I'm a bit of an A/V aficionado and I usually get a little peeved at those silly people that promote cable risers, magic rocks and 1m HDMI cables that cost $1000.

[AlanH]

Go into iTunes Settings > General > Import Settings > Import Using: > Setting. That's on a Mac, but probably the same on a PC.

[R32UK]

I found that the std gti speakers have improved a great deal over the mk5. not sure if this is down to the improved interior quality or the sound proofing.

Many people werent totally satisfied with the sound upgrade package on the MK5 so opted for after market stuff which gives you much more bang for your buck. Seems like this has obviously been addressed by vw this time around, but I will still be going aftermarket. I like to tailor my sound to suit the kind of music I like...

much like my hifi at home

DL do you stock B&W?? I think I blew one of mine a couple of months back :embarassed:

[AdrianM]

I found that the std gti speakers have improved a great deal over the mk5. not sure if this is down to the improved interior quality or the sound proofing.

Many people werent totally satisfied with the sound upgrade package on the MK5 so opted for after market stuff which gives you much more bang for your buck. Seems like this has obviously been addressed by vw this time around, but I will still be going aftermarket. I like to tailor my sound to suit the kind of music I like...

much like my hifi at home

DL do you stock B&W?? I think I blew one of mine a couple of months back :embarassed:

If you "blew one" then it's most likely that you were under-powering them - contrary to popular belief, it's very uncommon to over-power speakers (mainly because most people don't have such powerful amps and if they did, turning the gain up so much would result in deafness and/or an awfully distorted noise that no one wants to listen to) and usually damage is caused when people turn up the volume and their amplifiers cannot keep up with the demand for power; then the signal will clip and the voice coil on their tweeters will burn out.

[R32UK]

Im running a musical fidelity amp (which was quite expensive in its day ) so I doubt underpower would have caused it. im quite sure my dad was listening to it a while back and didnt realise it was on mute, so pupmed the power right up whilst also flicking the mute switch.

Atleast thats my theory anyway... I think I may need to have a listen to it again just to be sure.

thx

[DL]

I only sell Bang & Olufsen I'm afraid R32.

With regards itunes, on a pc you need to go first to; Edit, Preferences, Import settings, then Custom and finally choose 320kbps. I think that's right anyway. I'm doing this from memory typing on my phone so sorry if its wrong!