OK, let's say I have a standard lossless flac file. I have two options for playing it on my car stereo; one is to burn it to cd and play it off of there, and the other is to play it over the bluetooth connection on my android. I only ask because I recently hooked up the BT connection to my head unit in my car and the audio sounds MUCH better than off the cd and I was a bit surprised...
Which should sound better on my stereo: cd or bluetooth?
- Thread starter BagOfWalnuts
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The bitrate of CD is higher than BT, so a CD should be a more accurate representation of the original sound. But as far as what sounds better... that's a whole different issue.
In my car, bluetooth is routed through a totally different audio system than my stereo and has it's own separate volume control. It seems to have a different frequency response than my stereo to the exact same audio stream - so if I plug in an MP3 player into the Aux port of my car stereo and listen a song and then use Bluetooth to play the same song from the same MP3 device it sounds totally different. In my car, I'd have to say the bluetooth sounds "better", but I think that's a function of the way the bluetooth receiver messes with audio than any function of bluetooth as a communication standard.
In my car, bluetooth is routed through a totally different audio system than my stereo and has it's own separate volume control. It seems to have a different frequency response than my stereo to the exact same audio stream - so if I plug in an MP3 player into the Aux port of my car stereo and listen a song and then use Bluetooth to play the same song from the same MP3 device it sounds totally different. In my car, I'd have to say the bluetooth sounds "better", but I think that's a function of the way the bluetooth receiver messes with audio than any function of bluetooth as a communication standard.
CD-1411 kb/s
Bluetooth has low, middle, and high rates of 201, 229, and 328 kb/s. Im not sure how to tell at which rate it is transmitting, but I would guess A2DP would be the high setting. Odds are most likely your equipment and ears wont be able to tell the difference between CD and BT A2DP with high bitrate mp3s (assuming the BT connection is built in your head unit, not something like an FM transmitter).
Bluetooth has low, middle, and high rates of 201, 229, and 328 kb/s. Im not sure how to tell at which rate it is transmitting, but I would guess A2DP would be the high setting. Odds are most likely your equipment and ears wont be able to tell the difference between CD and BT A2DP with high bitrate mp3s (assuming the BT connection is built in your head unit, not something like an FM transmitter).
hmmm...I noticed the bass sounded fuller and deeper especially. Although maybe the mp3s/flacs I'm using are higher quality than the original mp3s I burned onto cds
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