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03-17-2009, 11:01 PM | #1 |
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ipod sound quality improvment with apple cable?
first time i try to connect the ipod with the stadard apple USB-dock cable
and i think it sounds much better more clarity and cleaner treble and i think it also improved the very low octaves am i smoking something? oh and since all my songs are DRM free, i don't need to use the OEM mini headphone connector, which always looks like its bent too much when i close the arm rest |
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i just have it on shuffle all the time and i also think that switching from tracks is quicker with the apple cable Vs the BMW one i noticed it this morning |
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base audio for me
didn't think it was worth paying $4000 for i don't have the nav so i would have had to buy that to get the premium audio |
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03-18-2009, 10:39 PM | #8 | |
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So people are saying that using the Apple USB connnector vs the BMW Y-cable (that comes with the car) for an iPod produces better sound quality on the speakers?
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03-18-2009, 11:18 PM | #10 | |
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the mp3 song i am playing is digital its being converted into analogue to be reproduced by the speakers if you use the BMW cable the conversion is done inside the ipod. the ipods, although i love them, are not known to have the best sound quality if you use the apple cable (the one that comes with your ipod) the conversion is done inside the head unit which based on my experience sounds better than the conversion done inside the ipod keep in mind this is only for songs without Digital Rights Management (DRM) so if you bought all your songs from itunes (except the last few months, they now have drm free) they will only work if the ipod does the conversion, i.e you have to use the bmw cable |
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its faster to switch between songs now there is almost no lag between pressing forward and hearing the next song i'd say half a second or less it used to be more for BMW connection my guess is when you use the bmw cable you are using the digital/analogue conversion in the ipod and i believe the ipod has a 32mb buffer so when you are using the bmw cable the ipod reads the entire song from the hd and stores it in the buffer then it starts playing from the buffer when you use the apple cable you are just sending the file as its converted kind of like downloading a movie (bmw cable) or streaming it (apple cable) |
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It's moot for me. I couldn't survive without playlists. If all I was going to do was shuffle, I'd buy a cheap flash drive, or copy to the car's HD. |
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I used the white ipod cable to plug my ipod into the USB port in the center armrest and got an error that it was not a supported device??? How did you get this to work on your cars?
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I used the white ipod cable to plug my ipod into the USB port in the center armrest and got an error that it was not a supported device??? How did you get this to work on your cars?
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was it an ipod, or an ipod touch?
i've tried both ipod classic 160gb and ipod photo 30gb both worked fine |
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