No CD player?
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Don't worry as GM will do like it did with the battery run down problem, when they sell you a "Battery protection" device for $100. For the C7, GM will offer a CD player that plugs into the Radio and sits on the passenger seat. And only ask $250 for it.
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Smart phone at Wifi hot spots, or air card. Download from Itunes store and many other book download sites.
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To appreciate SACD requires that you setup and listen to the music basically in one precise location. Since that typically isn't very practical in a home, I always thought the automobile was the perfect environment for SACD. As the driver you're in the same seating position (and stuck in the environment as well as you commute). Seems like a good match, other than perhaps all the other negative environmental issues you mention...
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To appreciate SACD requires that you setup and listen to the music basically in one precise location. Since that typically isn't very practical in a home, I always thought the automobile was the perfect environment for SACD. As the driver you're in the same seating position (and stuck in the environment as well as you commute). Seems like a good match, other than perhaps all the other negative environmental issues you mention...
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USB is a type of cable connector. You mean MP3 player or Ipod.
Personally I would still like a CD player, I still use them more than anything else, and most auto designed ones have better skip protection than ones designed as stand alone for computers. And with everyone using MP3 players or Ipods, it is getting hard to find shock resistant portable CD players.
Personally I would still like a CD player, I still use them more than anything else, and most auto designed ones have better skip protection than ones designed as stand alone for computers. And with everyone using MP3 players or Ipods, it is getting hard to find shock resistant portable CD players.
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I find it amusing that some still don't understand that CD's are soon ( very soon) to be a thing of the past. Every operating program now for Apple is sold as a download and you will soon not be able to buy a physical CD to download programs on your computer. Windows will be right at their heels. Thumb drives and other usb/ firewire type media storage are the only choice you will have. I'll bet there will soon be data plans for cars probably off satellite for downloads of anything you want anytime just as there are for iPads etc.
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I don't want to speak for Glenmcp, but would it help if he added "stick" after usb? No need for an mp3 player or ipod, when you can fit 32 gb of music on an $8 usb drive/stick/whatever you want to call it and have the car radio play it just fine.
Last edited by z28lt1; Apr 30, 2013 at 03:26 PM.
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St. Jude Donor '14
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Not sure about the C7, but I just dumped my iTunes library of 456 CD's onto a 16 GB USB memory stick then export them into my CTS-V and there is still plenty of space on it's 30GB HD.
Last edited by AFVETTE; Apr 30, 2013 at 08:43 PM.
