From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale
Newsgroups: net.audio
Title: Re: car cd
Article-I.D.: watcgl.393
Posted: Fri May  6 19:25:15 1983
Received: Sat May  7 00:16:07 1983
References: utcsrgv.1372

I don't think auto CD players are quite as ridiculous as Mr. Newman
purports.  Certainly, the sonic quality of any car system will be far
below what is necessary to show off a CD player to its full merit.  The
real question, I think, is whether they will be audibly better than
cassettes.  If so, then a perfectly sane person might go out and spend
the additional money for the CD player.  Also, consider someone who is
a "true audiophile" and has a home system which contains a CD player
but no cassette deck and who has no current auto sound system.  He has
a choice of buying an auto cassette deck AND a home cassette deck (both
of fairly high quality) AND some blank tape and then spending many hours
recording tapes for his car (prerecorded tapes being so awful), or
simply buying an auto CD player.  Now, the CD player's sound might be
audibly better, and could very well cost less than the two tape decks
plus blank tape put together.
Remember, as well as better S/N and frequency response, the CD deck
should have NO flutter, which is the thing I hate most about my current
car cassette deck.

	Dave Martindale