Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the signal travelling through an aux cable digital, therefore the signal will not be affected quality wise? Subsequently, meaning that quality will be the same as from CD?
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Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the signal travelling through an aux cable digital, therefore the signal will not be affected quality wise? Subsequently, meaning that quality will be the same as from CD?
Nope, the output from the headphone/aux out is an analogue signal.
OP, please let us know the following:
What source player you are using.
What headunit you have.
What format/bitrate your music is.
To be honest, with the length of most aux cables, I doubt that the cable itself would have a significant impact on the quality, so it's far more likely to be one of the above.
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Doesn't your head unit even have USB capabilities for that price?
My £60 Sony stero plays every thing off a USB stick, none of that aux cable nonsense.
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In the Lexus - It's Aux port seems quiet compared to CD.
Same quality just quieter, so if changing between Aux & CD usually involves VERY loud music for a second or two
So I just burn to CD, converting from FLAC or MP3 to 320kb/s MP3, can fit about 5~6 albums to a CD, 6 CD Changer = plenty of tunes, replace CD every few weeks to keep things fresh ^.^
Same quality just quieter, so if changing between Aux & CD usually involves VERY loud music for a second or two
So I just burn to CD, converting from FLAC or MP3 to 320kb/s MP3, can fit about 5~6 albums to a CD, 6 CD Changer = plenty of tunes, replace CD every few weeks to keep things fresh ^.^
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Yes and your radio probably doesn't have amplifier outputs and is actually not great...cheap car stereos suck!
My car stereo is awesome. I have a £35 Sony HU wired up to two stock door speakers, and a couple of the pins in the wiring loom are the wrong way round so auto power on ignition doesn't work. 
It also doesn't lock into the dash cos the clips are useless, so someone could just pull it out. Combine all this with my 89P radio signal booster, £2 stubby aerial and a phone on free Spotify connected with a 20P aux cable, and you have a bangin' sound system!
It also doesn't lock into the dash cos the clips are useless, so someone could just pull it out. Combine all this with my 89P radio signal booster, £2 stubby aerial and a phone on free Spotify connected with a 20P aux cable, and you have a bangin' sound system!
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My car stereo is awesome. I have a £35 Sony HU wired up to two stock door speakers, and a couple of the pins in the wiring loom are the wrong way round so auto power on ignition doesn't work.
Mine doesn't either, maybe that's why!
Doesn't need amp output stages and will likely be excellent quality because of the built in mosfet amp. I know this because my old Sony was similarly priced and was excellent sound quality! I upgraded merely because I wanted bluetooth apt-x streaming and handle phone calls and voice commands through the car speakers so spent quite a bit more for that
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OMG LOL MRK!
I saw the op and was literally about to say you should filter it through a potato and noticed you essentially posted the same exact thing xD.
I saw the op and was literally about to say you should filter it through a potato and noticed you essentially posted the same exact thing xD.
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If you have an old or built in car stereo that doesn't play flac. You could get a sansa clip + 32gb card, fill it up with flac, then just get a 3mm to 3mm (headphone cable) and plug the sansa clip in to the aux port on your car stereo. Downside is you can't control the track selections play pause stop etc with the car controls only volume will work. Have to use the controls on the player. Then get a 12v battery to usb and you can power it from you cig lighter.
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What I use for extended journeys
Have audio books as well as many more tunes on it, the centre console has a cigarette lighter socket in it too beside the Aux in 
Just have to use a passenger to change tracks if driving >.>
Also - Can stick RockBox on it to get it louder if the Aux is quiet.