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Originally Posted by KevinC
To my lame ears, the Carver setup that's part of the Premium package sounds pretty damn decent, especially considering the crappy environment it's got to work with.
Just today I was out cruising with SiriusXM streaming through my iPhone, connected to the aux port via a Lightning-to-aux cable. I ASSume the aux cable has to contain a DAC - that's really the only place the digital-to-analog conversion could be taking place. I have the streaming quality set to max in the Sirus app, which is supposedly 320kbps - or about 6-8x better than the. satellite stream. It sounds fantastic. Unlimited data on my T-Mo plan so no worries there. Important to me because I live in the sticks, and there are literally zero FM stations within range that I want to listen to.
This is the cable I'm using - $18.49 from Amazon:
https://goo.gl/MRPTDo |
We must not have the same Carver setup because I agree with "rockstar93" that audio quality is not great in the Z4M. The basic "Business" 10 speaker setup in my 2004 e53 X5 sounds much better than the Premium package Carver setup in the Z4. Then again, I only have the stereo turned on in the Z only about 20% of the time, which is why I haven't really been bothered by it.