Audio Discus Getting the most out of our Bose & B&O Stereo's

[boff]

Mike, Just been reading the Performance edition ordered thread, and made the following post - which I decided should be a separate topic.

Folks - how do we get the most out of our RS6 Stereo's? Please tell us what you plug in and how, and what formats - and how your easily manage this to deliver the tunes you want!!

My post was:

"Hmmm - Hassle factor vs quality Mike?

My music collection is ripped ALAC, until I discovered alcohol and iTunes - which enables impulsiveness.

Simple fact is that I love quality; but I'm torn by convenience - what I do think is that the spotify and equivs are getting better, now upto 320kbps, but CD is still 1410kbps, and analog still rocks my world.

Dunno what to do for "ease of quality" especially after being a mac man for 10+ years with an iTunes library to match. I also have a huge CD library, although some of the music I listen to is house and trance/progressive stuff - and that has been sampled before production meaning that CD res adds nothing to it, infact can degrade the sound as you go Analog,digital,digital,analog.

A whole big and complex topic this one - and.... now I have the B&O coming.

I'd love to plug in my iPhone 6s+ and just have everything I need, not sure this will be the case..... Also definitely not using bluetooth, as BTAudio has a 64kbps Resolution"

[kmpowell]

Folks - how do we get the most out of our RS6 Stereo's?

What I do is take the speakers out and sit them onto 10mm spacing blocks before refitting. It makes the speakers look so much better and the weight distribution across the car is evened up because the speaker weight is more centre of gravity. By my reckoning I get to pull an extra .5g in the corners, whilst All Rise by Blue pumps out at many decibels...

[MikeFish]

Good topic.
You know the facelift car has 2 USB ports? Each one can support a hard drive with up to 2 partitions effectively giving you 4 hard drives? That is how I have my music in there. I have a huge mp3 collection that I have to still support for the wife etc with her iPod. So whenever I buy a new cd I will rip it to mp3 and FLAC. 1 hard disc in the car holds all my FLACs which is what I mainly listen too in the car. But sometimes I want to listen to album that I don't have as FLAC which is when I switch to my other hard drive that holds all my mp3 (many more albums then my FLAC library as I started ripping CDs to mp3 many many years ago for an m-station car MP3 player I had, back before the iPod really took off).

If I've just downloaded / ripped a new album it will generally go onto any SD card sitting around so it can go straight into the car until I can be bothered to get the hard drives out. I use a comparative program to update my hard drives from my main music drives at home to save me having to recall what I have added since the previous update.
I use a separate program for creating playlist of new albums so I can find them quickly. The MMI has a built in playlist generator for things like recent payed tracks or most played tracks which is working a treat now that I have been playing favourite tracks over and over for a while.

I never use bluetooth as you say it is low quality.
I don't connect my phone or any other device, just have my hard drives connected and SD disc if necessary.
I have had to use the different partitions as MMI will only recognise 10,000 files in each partition so 1 disc is not enough for me.

Allan Taylor's colour to the moon track from the album of the same name in FLAC on the B&O sounds amazing for an OEM system. Not my normal cup of tea music wise, but when something sounds that good I can listen to it for ages.

[MikeFish]

All quality no hassle.
You can convert your alac to FLAC easily and quickly. I had to do it the opposite was round to get my FLACs to play on an iPod in my RS4.

[boff]

Folks - how do we get the most out of our RS6 Stereo's?

What I do is take the speakers out and sit them onto 10mm spacing blocks before refitting. It makes the speakers look so much better and the weight distribution across the car is evened up because the speaker weight is more centre of gravity. By my reckoning I get to pull an extra .5g in the corners, whilst All Rise by Blue pumps out at many decibels...

Kev - are you drinking again LOLOLOL

[boff]

Good topic.
You know the facelift car has 2 USB ports? Each one can support a hard drive with up to 2 partitions effectively giving you 4 hard drives? That is how I have my music in there. I have a huge mp3 collection that I have to still support for the wife etc with her iPod. So whenever I buy a new cd I will rip it to mp3 and FLAC. 1 hard disc in the car holds all my FLACs which is what I mainly listen too in the car. But sometimes I want to listen to album that I don't have as FLAC which is when I switch to my other hard drive that holds all my mp3 (many more albums then my FLAC library as I started ripping CDs to mp3 many many years ago for an m-station car MP3 player I had, back before the iPod really took off).

If I've just downloaded / ripped a new album it will generally go onto any SD card sitting around so it can go straight into the car until I can be bothered to get the hard drives out. I use a comparative program to update my hard drives from my main music drives at home to save me having to recall what I have added since the previous update.
I use a separate program for creating playlist of new albums so I can find them quickly. The MMI has a built in playlist generator for things like recent payed tracks or most played tracks which is working a treat now that I have been playing favourite tracks over and over for a while.

I never use bluetooth as you say it is low quality.
I don't connect my phone or any other device, just have my hard drives connected and SD disc if necessary.
I have had to use the different partitions as MMI will only recognise 10,000 files in each partition so 1 disc is not enough for me.

Allan Taylor's colour to the moon track from the album of the same name in FLAC on the B&O sounds amazing for an OEM system. Not my normal cup of tea music wise, but when something sounds that good I can listen to it for ages.

Mike you are a legend at this - I need to know more, your certainly know car stereo.

I'm lost do I goto HMV and buy CD's/ be patient - or am I safe to download? Also on the move does spotify and apple music stream at the right res? Such a complex topic buddy.

And then do I care, even tho I have a batboy stereo in the car, it will never touch my nautilus B&W 800's at home. Should I aim for that?

And then 4 HDD's in one car - maybe we should start thinking NAS? lol

[boff]

Folks - how do we get the most out of our RS6 Stereo's?

What I do is take the speakers out and sit them onto 10mm spacing blocks before refitting. It makes the speakers look so much better and the weight distribution across the car is evened up because the speaker weight is more centre of gravity. By my reckoning I get to pull an extra .5g in the corners, whilst All Rise by Blue pumps out at many decibels...

Kev - are you drinking again LOLOLOL

OK - what I am gonna do is forget the spacers this time.... as you know - I feel bullied by fellow "spacers" - in my new motor I'm gonna remove the round speakers, grab a sheet of MDF and install 6x9 Infinity Badboys.... then I will be oval.... and not "round"!!!!

[MikeFish]

Only 2 hard drives, but each one has 2 partitions so the car sees it as 4 discs. Fits nicely under the arm rest.

I can't comment about spotify and apple music as I don't use them.

My current music buying method is to buy the CD from amazon. For many albums they have an instant download in mp3 so I can listen to the album straight away (with lower quality) whilst I wait for the CD to arrive in the post the following day.

[MikeFish]

I just removed the MDF spacers from my RS4.

[boff]

That's a hot tip - then I can rip the CD into Apple when it arrives to complete the loop.

What size drives are you using buddy? SSD or spinny

[boff]

I just removed the MDF spacers from my RS4.

MDF is a marvellous thing.....

[MikeFish]

[boff]

what was that film called? great stuff the sound deadening foil

[MikeFish]

One is 1tb, the other is 500 or 750gb, I can't remember. They are spinnys. One of them seems to take longer to spin occasionally, so the car goes to the other disc when starting now again, maybe a start up current issue. Pretty sure if I swap them around I.e. Use the mp3 disc for FLACs then it will always start the FLAC disc without issues.

[MikeFish]

What film dude?