Please can I have a recomendation for a Hard disk player for the Car

Stephen7372 · 5 Feb 2006 at 13:44

Preferable one that does flac format !

Bigsy · 5 Feb 2006 at 16:10

Samsung Yh-J70 is about the best out atm, it does nearly all formats....apart from flac, at the mo at least.

If flac is a must then I would go with the iaudio X5, apart from it's lineout is not the best if you do intend to use solely in the car.

Stephen7372 · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:09

I'm abit confused, maybe what I was after doesn't exsist but the Samsung thing looks like a standalone player ??

What would I plug it into on the car ehh!

Hey does this Samsung thing produce the best sound quality, (don't tell Stuff Magazine , whom love the iPod)

http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/sound-and-vision/personal-audio/mp3-players/375929/prices

Bigsy · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:51

Sorry my mistake, you didn't mention you were after a new HU so assumed you were after a HD based DAP to plug into your car ie line out from DAP to aux/line in on your cars HU.

As a side note the ipod does have one of the best quality lineouts going.

benjo plz. · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:55

I have a Sony Head Unit with an USB port, you just stick a usb drive in it and then play the files on it. Not sure if it plays flac though :\.

Bobbler · 5 Feb 2006 at 22:30

I dont think that there are any major brand headunits that support FLAC format - WAV, MP3 and WMA are about it at the moment.
Alternatively if you have a compatible headunit then you can go for the Phatbox which does do FLAC. http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/index.php
Doesnt appear to be available in the UK though other than via Ebay auctions.
Or there is the E-mpeg (IIRC) which should play allsorts as its opensource and linux based, don't know if they still make them however.

Stephen7372 · 6 Feb 2006 at 15:45

Thanks Bobbler, the current head set is rubbish anyhow any recs for a good headset ?

Stephen7372 · 6 Feb 2006 at 15:53

I only want flac as I assume it produces the best sound quality !

Is the

benjo plz. · 6 Feb 2006 at 16:38

Meh imo Ogg Vorbis is better, and WMA Lossless is about the same (maybe not as good.)

Bobbler · 6 Feb 2006 at 21:38

Stephen7372 said:
Thanks Bobbler, the current head set is rubbish anyhow any recs for a good headset ?

Phatbox is around 200 notes on ebay, but I am not entirely sure what interface it uses or what headunits are supported, all thats listed appears to be the car manufacturers and without knowing what brand of headunits (or indeed if its proprietry to them) they use I can't really offer you any informed info mate.
I think that the Kenwood music keg (also listed on Phatbox website) is essentially the same unit though, which will work with a Kenwood headunit with CD changer control so there's plenty to pick from.
E-mpeg is a standalone unit and replaces the headunit in car and just plugs in where your current stereo is.

Personally I wouldn't go for either though. I use a Alpine 9855R with a Sony HD5 plugged into it which gives me best of both worlds - excellent quality headunit and oodles of MP3's/Atrac3's for a journey to work