Originally Posted by MalcolmW
Originally Posted by "ISB"
...high quality audio in a car environment.
IMO, mutually exclusive.

The dynamic range which you can obtain in a car is just not sufficient for high quality audio as anyone who listens to R3 in the car in the UK will probably testify. You just can't hear quiet passages. If you put in compression to fix this, is it high quality afterwards?

I'm not saying that you can't get a "nice" sound in a car and I am a motoring enthusiast myself (see avatar) but high quality?

Well, I could have phrased that better, I suppose. High quality in a car environment would certainly differ from high quality in an environment with a far lower noise floor. So, high in a relative sense.

One benefit a car environment has is that the audio supplier can optimize their system for a mostly defined acoustical space as opposed to the home environment where the audio supplier has to choose between trying to be robust to diverse unknown environments, or leave the tuning to the user etc.

Cheers, Ian

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