I have an in car amp. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to run only an Ipod connected to my amp for sound. Im worried about the sound quality. Anyone have some info on this.

Thanks

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chiller &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have an in car amp. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to run only an Ipod connected to my amp for sound. Im worried about the sound quality. Anyone have some info on this.

Thanks</TD></TR></TABLE> Yes it can be done. do a search, there a few posts about it. 94

 

If you have your wire for the Ipod to the deck..which you don't have. Im pretty sure that you can goto the amp and plug those same wires into the IN of the amp and it should play the music out. Thats how the amp works from the deck to the amp to play the music. The wires go from the back of the deck(out) to the amp(in). It should be pretty much the same thing for the Ipod wires if they're setup like the wires that come in the wiring packages for amps if you know what I mean.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chiller &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Im worried about the sound quality. </TD></TR></TABLE>

IMHO the iPod sound quality (aka the fact that the files are compressed) leaves a bit to be deisred......

I use Apple Lossless and even then it still "colors" the sound compared to CD. But the fact that you can put so many of em into a tiny box... well I'll put up with the degraded sound

IMHO - if you use the iPod and are hooking it into something other than $10 headphones - use the line out - not the headphone out.

Iy ou hook the iPod's line out directly into the amp - how do ya control the volume???

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ewong_kaizen &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Iy ou hook the iPod's line out directly into the amp - how do ya control the volume???
</TD></TR></TABLE> Thats why you have to use the headphone output, so you have volume control 94

 

My main concern is the remote for the amp. Do I just hook it on the battery with a switch? Im thinking of just getting a cheap deck with a line in for mp3 players, cassette players etc and hook it to that to make my life easy.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chiller &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My main concern is the remote for the amp. Do I just hook it on the battery with a switch? Im thinking of just getting a cheap deck with a line in for mp3 players, cassette players etc and hook it to that to make my life easy.</TD></TR></TABLE>You can wire the amp trigger to tha ACC. freepin on the fuse box. 94

 

You guys are talking about some hard core ghetto rigs. Also how can digital music sound worse then a cd? Maybe the mp3’s you have are low quality - you should not loose quality IMO.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by w-a-o &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Also how can digital music sound worse then a cd? Maybe the mp3’s you have are low quality - you should not loose quality IMO. </TD></TR></TABLE>

If you save a CD to yor digital music device (iPod wo whatever) as the same digital file that is on the CD (a WAV file) then YES - you will not lose quality.

But if you COMPRESS the file (i.e. MP3, Apple's AAC, Apple Lossless, Sony's ATRAC etc.) You WILL loose quality. You made the file smaller - something has to give.

Some compression formats sound ALMOST as good as a CD.
For most people - they cant tell.
Heck if yer playing back MP3 files thorugh a $2 pair of headphones I doubt you will hear a difference.

But if you just blew $$$$ on yer car audio - why the heck are you using "garbage" as your sound source?

I'll call you out on this - unless you are playing a DIGITAL COPY of the CD (aka a WAV file) you WILL loose quality.

Now - in many cases the higher bitrates sound "almost" as good and in a moving car - I doubt you can tell the difference.

Bu I find even Apple's Lossless format (which is about 1/2 the digital size fo the a WAv - at least the few files I looked at were) still did annoying things to COLOR the sound.

That means - the sound is "different" thatn the CD. Not necessarily bad - just "different".

For example - a cymbasl hit may fad out faster, a brush on the drum may "disappear". Not "bad" - but definatly not what Im used to hearing.

IMHO Sony's ATRAC (which off the cuff appears to squeeze the soudn down by a factor of 10) sounds as good as Apple's lossless - and takes up less space. More importantly to me, the ATRAC does NOT "color" the sound as the Apple Loss Less does

Your ears may be different.


To me - Apple Loss Less sounds like some hacking away at a dBx box with a side chain controller and they dont know how to use it properly - they keep fiddling with it.

Again - it doenst sound BAD - but it does sound DIFFERENT.

If only an iPod supported ATRAC - or the Sony Sonic Stage software were more like iTunes....

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fcm &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> Thats why you have to use the headphone output, so you have volume control 94</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah - but IMHO the headphone amp on the iPod sounds terrible when boosted up thorugh my headunit...

I use a dock connector with a line out. Sounds better IMHO.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ewong_kaizen &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

Yeah - but IMHO the headphone amp on the iPod sounds terrible when boosted up thorugh my headunit...

I use a dock connector with a line out. Sounds better IMHO.
</TD></TR></TABLE>You would not use the headphone jack if plugging into a AUX input, only if plugging it into an amp, you use line out when plugging into any AUX. That was the Q........
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chiller &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have an in car amp. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to run only an Ipod connected to my amp for sound. Im worried about the sound quality. Anyone have some info on this.

Thanks</TD></TR></TABLE> 94