A workable CD player for the C7
Le Mans Master
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Originally Posted by Foosh
Interesting, the older 30-pin connector doesn't work in the USB port of my car. The only way I can make it play music is through the earphone jack to aux port. It does charge the iPod Mini I'm using, but that's it.
My Sony receiver is 6 years old and it has the reverse problem. It's DIMPORT dock only supports analog connections so my iPhone 6s connects, charges, but no music gets played.
Racer
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Ok. I'm 33 and I have a c7. It's insane to think that only senior citizens can afford a $60k car. It's not a super high end car, and many 30 year olds don have professional careers. Most of all my corvette friends are in their 20's and 30's. From my perspective the Vette market has shifted to a younger audience aka, where the money is. It's hard to profit on a car that's only sold to AARP members. All my music is on my iPhone via itunes or a streaming service. Even my 65 year old parents use music in the same way. CDs are dead and they have been for years. Let it go. There is no reason to keep CDs especially in a car. It's just to difficult, cumbersome, and overall inferior to the options we have these days.
If you care about sound quality, you don't listen to music in the car over crappy vise speakers. The environment is subpar, and the equipment is garbage. You will not get good sound out of a car period. I actually have many SACD and DVD-Audio discs on my home system using reference quality speakers and amps. I don't even bother in a car. A low quality MP3 on my home system will sound 1000 times better than anything my c7 will produce. That's not even mentioning lossless audio that you can use.
If you care about sound quality, you don't listen to music in the car over crappy vise speakers. The environment is subpar, and the equipment is garbage. You will not get good sound out of a car period. I actually have many SACD and DVD-Audio discs on my home system using reference quality speakers and amps. I don't even bother in a car. A low quality MP3 on my home system will sound 1000 times better than anything my c7 will produce. That's not even mentioning lossless audio that you can use.
Burning Brakes
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From: Parts Unknown
You're right because you're asking for something that'll never happen... Aux inputs do not supply power like USB inputs,
Race Director
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Ok. I'm 33 and I have a c7. It's insane to think that only senior citizens can afford a $60k car. It's not a super high end car, and many 30 year olds don have professional careers. Most of all my corvette friends are in their 20's and 30's. From my perspective the Vette market has shifted to a younger audience aka, where the money is. It's hard to profit on a car that's only sold to AARP members. All my music is on my iPhone via itunes or a streaming service. Even my 65 year old parents use music in the same way. CDs are dead and they have been for years. Let it go. There is no reason to keep CDs especially in a car. It's just to difficult, cumbersome, and overall inferior to the options we have these days.
If you care about sound quality, you don't listen to music in the car over crappy vise speakers. The environment is subpar, and the equipment is garbage. You will not get good sound out of a car period. I actually have many SACD and DVD-Audio discs on my home system using reference quality speakers and amps. I don't even bother in a car. A low quality MP3 on my home system will sound 1000 times better than anything my c7 will produce. That's not even mentioning lossless audio that you can use.
If you care about sound quality, you don't listen to music in the car over crappy vise speakers. The environment is subpar, and the equipment is garbage. You will not get good sound out of a car period. I actually have many SACD and DVD-Audio discs on my home system using reference quality speakers and amps. I don't even bother in a car. A low quality MP3 on my home system will sound 1000 times better than anything my c7 will produce. That's not even mentioning lossless audio that you can use.
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...s-market-just/
Last edited by sunsalem; Dec 29, 2016 at 02:11 PM.
Racer
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From: Biloxi MS
Ok. I'm 33 and I have a c7. It's insane to think that only senior citizens can afford a $60k car. It's not a super high end car, and many 30 year olds don have professional careers. Most of all my corvette friends are in their 20's and 30's. From my perspective the Vette market has shifted to a younger audience aka, where the money is. It's hard to profit on a car that's only sold to AARP members. All my music is on my iPhone via itunes or a streaming service. Even my 65 year old parents use music in the same way. CDs are dead and they have been for years. Let it go. There is no reason to keep CDs especially in a car. It's just to difficult, cumbersome, and overall inferior to the options we have these days.
If you care about sound quality, you don't listen to music in the car over crappy vise speakers. The environment is subpar, and the equipment is garbage. You will not get good sound out of a car period. I actually have many SACD and DVD-Audio discs on my home system using reference quality speakers and amps. I don't even bother in a car. A low quality MP3 on my home system will sound 1000 times better than anything my c7 will produce. That's not even mentioning lossless audio that you can use.
If you care about sound quality, you don't listen to music in the car over crappy vise speakers. The environment is subpar, and the equipment is garbage. You will not get good sound out of a car period. I actually have many SACD and DVD-Audio discs on my home system using reference quality speakers and amps. I don't even bother in a car. A low quality MP3 on my home system will sound 1000 times better than anything my c7 will produce. That's not even mentioning lossless audio that you can use.
100% agree!!
Le Mans Master
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Le Mans Master
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I keep hearing this "CDs are dead" talk, but the ACTUAL numbers don't say this at all (latest numbers I can find).
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...s-market-just/
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...s-market-just/
I never actually use them outside my house. So sales of CDs are meaningless as it could be argued everyone just uses them like I do.
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Racer
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Originally Posted by sunsalem
I keep hearing this "CDs are dead" talk, but the ACTUAL numbers don't say this at all (latest numbers I can find).
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...s-market-just/
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.co...s-market-just/
If you read the article, it even says that audio on demand doubled in 2015.
Last edited by ilivas; Dec 29, 2016 at 02:38 PM.
Safety Car
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I also haven't bought CD's or a full album in the last few years.
Download a few MP3 songs I like from different artists and save them on computer and other devices.
And the Album Art is attached to the song
I'm not a sound quality expert but the downloaded songs sound the best by comparison to any other music I've burned and/or converted to Digital.
To each his own
For me it's about saving/protecting the music and the convenience of playing it on multiple devices anywhere I want.
Download a few MP3 songs I like from different artists and save them on computer and other devices.
And the Album Art is attached to the song
I'm not a sound quality expert but the downloaded songs sound the best by comparison to any other music I've burned and/or converted to Digital.
To each his own
For me it's about saving/protecting the music and the convenience of playing it on multiple devices anywhere I want.
Race Director
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I haven't bought an entire album in a decade. If I buy music, it's normally a single song. I don't need or want the whole album.
If you read the article, it even says that audio on demand doubled in 2015.
The most sure-fire way to do that is to buy a CD.
Thumb drives, hard drives, computers fail...that is a fact of life.
Racer
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With the cloud, you never have to worry about failure. Since it's digital, you have backups on backups. My music is stored on my phone. If my phone breaks/lost/stolen, I get a new phone and transfer all my music there with a push of a button. Quick and easy. All my past purchases are saved and I don't have to worry about it.
Instructor
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Get a CD player like this:
https://www.amazon.com/GPX-PC101B-Po...able+cd+player
Then get a cord to go from the headphone out jack on it, to go into the aux jack located in the center console.
https://www.amazon.com/GPX-PC101B-Po...able+cd+player
Then get a cord to go from the headphone out jack on it, to go into the aux jack located in the center console.
Instructor
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CD Player
Took all of 5 minutes, I have over 599 songs recorded on a 128 flash drive, Satellite Radio, Pandora, and a front view camera behind the GPS!
74 and still going.
FYI, CASSETTE PLAYER in back and adding a 300 disk player to the back header.
Have a happy cruise today.
Team Owner
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From: Spring Texas
Buy this. Powered by USB, also:
Last edited by CP; Aug 16, 2018 at 12:59 PM.