Do you use CDRs in your BA Audio system?

[Guest Scootre]

Interesting that the mere mention of the word "CDR" brings the assumption that people are downloading MP3's and stealing copyrighted material.

It's the same as me declaring that I have a gun. And I do. It has a laser sight and is dead accurate. And I have pointed it at people's foreheads and have pulled the trigger.

The mention of the word 'gun' invokes thoughts, no doubt, that I have an illegal pistol. Wrong again. I have a hand-held, laser guided temerature reading gun that I use in the course of my work. You can pick them up from any Electronics store.

So let's not go off-topic with my thread here please and have it shut down.

The subject of MP3's or illegally downloaded music has nothing to do with THIS topic guys - the discussion is about the TYPE of disk used in the BA Audio and Ford dancing around their responsibility to meet warranty obligations.

Please go to the Chit-Chat section and debate piracy all you like.

[Guest Scootre]

  justind said:

I was told by a dealer that the main reason for the CD compression option in the menu of the Prem sound system was to add an inbuilt compensation to quality of burnt CD's and this was one of the best additions made to the new sound system to make it more customer friendly. Of course a dealer will say anything to make a sale. The owners manual says a different story about increasing lower sound levels above the normal road noises on CD's. Again it does not specify CDR's

Y'know, I still can't work out what it's supposed to do and which setting has the most benefit. CDR's or otherwise.

[mercturbo]

Gday Scootre, my GT has 2 "Emtec" or something cdr's running fine no probs, Cheers

[Guest Scootre]

Thanks Merc.

[NYOPA]

I was told by a dealer that the main reason for the CD compression option in the menu of the Prem sound system was to add an inbuilt compensation to quality of burnt CD's and this was one of the best additions made to the new sound system to make it more customer friendly. Of course a dealer will say anything to make a sale. The owners manual says a different story about increasing lower sound levels above the normal road noises on CD's. Again it does not specify CDR's

OK compression is used to "smooth" sound. What I mean is that if a quick sound (like a gunshot) is heard compression will attenuate the loudness of the sound. This enables the user to increase the overal level of the sound without the really loud sounds becoming to loud. basically it squashes everything.

That's about as simple as I can make it. If you want some more detail pm me and I can dig out some more info for you.

cheers

David

[Guest Scootre]

Actually, that's perfectly clear, thanks. I'll try it out on the way to work shortly.

[KrasH]

  NYOPA said:

I was told by a dealer that the main reason for the CD compression option in the menu of the Prem sound system was to add an inbuilt compensation to quality of burnt CD's and this was one of the best additions made to the new sound system to make it more customer friendly. Of course a dealer will say anything to make a sale. The owners manual says a different story about increasing lower sound levels above the normal road noises on CD's. Again it does not specify CDR's

OK compression is used to "smooth" sound. What I mean is that if a quick sound (like a gunshot) is heard compression will attenuate the loudness of the sound. This enables the user to increase the overal level of the sound without the really loud sounds becoming to loud. basically it squashes everything.

That's about as simple as I can make it. If you want some more detail pm me and I can dig out some more info for you.

cheers

David

I read the manual, and basically it says that cd Compression is a way of compensating for the noise of the car at higher speeds (talks about a 35db variance or whatever) and that it basically makes low (I assume quieter) passages music slightly louder/clearer. I tried it while the car was in the garage and it does seem to smooth the music out, but brings some of the music to a slightly higher level (guitars, singing etc) and seem to keep the louder part of the music (drums, bangs) at roughly the same level. From what I heard it was only a slight, very slight difference.

[ZAP]

A good example of compression is when watching TV and a AD comes on. They are noticably louder, this is due to compression and is meant to grab your attention......yeah makes me change the channel

[NYOPA]

I read the manual, and basically it says that cd Compression is a way of compensating for the noise of the car at higher speeds (talks about a 35db variance or whatever) and that it basically makes low (I assume quieter) passages music slightly louder/clearer. I tried it while the car was in the garage and it does seem to smooth the music out, but brings some of the music to a slightly higher level (guitars, singing etc) and seem to keep the louder part of the music (drums, bangs) at roughly the same level. From what I heard it was only a slight, very slight difference.

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What a load of hooey the manual is! Compression does not make anything louder ever, it makes loud things softer.

Krash your absolutely right about the balance of the instruments compression will change it.

My advice is to leave all the effect things off as this is the closest the music can sound to the way its supposed to.

next time I see you krash I can give you some demo's of music I have recorded and you will hear how badly the BA compression squashes it..... eeeeeeeeeech its terrible!

cheers

david

[God666]

Never had a problem with CDRs but a few problems with CD-RWs. Some will play fine but they have a hissy fit if you try to change track manually. If you let them play from start to finish they are fine. CDRs and CD-RWs have a different reflectivity and I assume the read heads don't cope very well with that.

Have given up trying to use CD-RW because of the above problems, will push on with CDRs.