New Head Unit to Control iPod?

[NYRngrs24 10+ year member]

headless is right apoc, use the dock, and he is also right about it being a DIGITAL output, so audio is equal to the burning of the cd

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

A cd is the most basic form of analog signal. Don't let yourself get hooked into the analog versus digital debate.

Actually, CD is a digital format....NOT analog. Or maybe you meant something else by that, not sure. I'm not trying to debate digital versus analog. I KNOW for a fact that the longer you keep a signal digital after it is read from the disc the better the quality. Simply because when a signal is digital it is NOT subject to noise in the automotive environment.

In reality, there is no manor to get a fully digital signal without hitting a analog conversion somewhere.

Of course you have to have analog conversion. Human ears cannot hear digital data.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif lol. What I'm saying is having d/a and a/d back and forth throughout the signal chain will degrade the original signal read from the disc. Like running a digital processor with a deck that only has analog outuputs. The deck converts the signal from D/A, the processor converts it from A/D for processing and then again converts it D/A before the signal is sent to the amplifiers.

But on the other hand, if you have a deck that has digital outputs (p9) and a processor that has digital inputs (p9) the signal starts off digital being read off the disc and STAYS digital throughout the processing and then gets converted to analog ONE TIME ONLY before it is sent to the amps. This would be your ideal situation.

 

[cyantist 10+ year member]

I was actually just commenting to a buddy the other day about how my iPod interface sounds BETTER than my mp3 CDs. I was actually really surprised. But that's where my love ends for the Alpine iPod adapter...