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[GrandCherokee 10+ year member]

so obviously you get better quality etc. if you get the actual CD

if you import the CD to itunes and onto your Ipod...its like playing the CD

correct???cuz i dont gotta CD player

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[Bobby322 10+ year member]

yeah I would assume the CD's quaility would stay the same even when you import it through iTunes. I cant tell a difference though...

 

[jbizzle 5,000+ posts]

You won't notice a huge difference.

I use both and I can't even tell.

 

[GrandCherokee 10+ year member]

thanks so im guessin im still keeping the CD quality when i transfer???

 

[nauc 10+ year member]

depends of if you compress or not

 

[916Kev 10+ year member]

You will lose quality but you won't hear it.

 

[CadillacMatt 10+ year member]

You will lose quality but you won't hear it.

x2 I've heard many people bash the AAC lossless encoder but I really can't tell a difference in sound quality and neither should you.

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

I use the Apple Lossless format and I am hard pressed to tell the difference between the IPOD and the CD.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

If you use a lossless format, it should be a virtually identical copy of the CD. If you compress it, it will lose some quality. But honestly, I can't every tell the difference between lossless and something encoded at 256kbps or higher. Even 192 is impossible for me to distinguish on most music.

 

[tcguy85 10+ year member]

i use 160 bit aac files on my ipod nano and i can barely tell the difference.

 

[Megalomaniac 5,000+ posts]

Grand_Cherokee, take a read at this sticky in the Head Unit section, it explains your concerns with compressions.

http:////forum/showthread.php?t=114272

Effects of Compression

 

[BassAddictJ 5,000+ posts]

You won't notice a huge difference.
I use both and I can't even tell.

in my car i use the stock radio/cd player and it's auxillary input for my zune. with my zune and the aux input it is way noticable louder and just as clean as the cd player.

mp3 player throughthe aux > cd player in my cobalt

 

[Willkas 10+ year member]

its really the same thing if you download or not, unless you somehow get a really low quality set of songs

cd>ipod

 

[buggsson 10+ year member]

First of all, if you will have any chance at all to hear any difference, that will depend on your HU. Not all HUs support uncompressed or lossless formats. You will have to check your manual for this, and pay extra attention to supported formats, and not the least, supported bitrates for each format. I've heard some HUs are supposed to be able to play lossless through the iPod with a special cable.

And regarding the sonic quality from playing directly from an iPod, many claim that they experience better sound when playing from a hard drive, than from their CD player (mostly in the home Hi-Fi crowd).

Non of the above is unfortunately from my own experience, but what I've heard during my efforts to find a HU that will have inboard or outboard processing and that will let my play lossless or uncompressed music from an iPod. That is, it's all hearsay, or regarding the first section, taken from various manuals.

 

[GrandCherokee 10+ year member]

If you use a lossless format, it should be a virtually identical copy of the CD. If you compress it, it will lose some quality. But honestly, I can't every tell the difference between lossless and something encoded at 256kbps or higher. Even 192 is impossible for me to distinguish on most music.

whoa thats pretty confusing...

what i do is download from limewire usually try to get the best quality ones 168+...

then it goes to Itunes...then to my Ipod