CUPRA Tavascan V1 286 Review

[Seastormer]

Apologies for continuing the off-topic theme but didn’t you used to be able to get those centre hole adapters (I seem to remember they were called spiders) to fit in the hole in ex-jukebox records so you could then play them at home?

As a DJ at the time I had an adapter that you put on the turntable to play at home as I used to borrow a lot of discs from work, and it was a lot easier.
Still wish I had a CD player in my current Leon like my old 280 had.

 

[Tell]

Afraid you make your CDs in Flac lossless files so you got your CDs on semi conductor storage. Took me about two months in 2016 whilst waiting for delivery. EACs and those 512x512 jpegs you create. Minidisc person 20 years so shifted the CDs and minidisc recording onto SD when I got the Ateca. Had an MD changer in my old Altea. Audacity and Foobar comes in handy. Really for those people with branded speakers on their spanking new Cupra audio systems now, they want flac / lossless not mpegs. So I've recreated the jukebox box in the car on semiconductor storage . USB for these cars now. Keep two copies at home so I don't need to spend another two months doing it.

 

[Nathan penney]

Afraid you make your CDs in Flac lossless files so you got your CDs on semi conductor storage. Took me about two months in 2016 whilst waiting for delivery. EACs and those 512x512 jpegs you create. Minidisc person 20 years so shifted the CDs and minidisc recording onto SD when I got the Ateca. Had an MD changer in my old Altea. Audacity and Foobar comes in handy. Really for those people with branded speakers on their spanking new Cupra audio systems now, they want flac / lossless not mpegs. So I've recreated the jukebox box in the car on semiconductor storage . USB for these cars now. Keep two copies at home so I don't need to spend another two months doing it.

I don’t know what any of this means.
My cars have CD or cassette in.
Even the wife’s 14 plate Zafira has a cd player in which I use the odd time I use it.
I have playlists on my phone which I can use in that too cause it has a usb.
Don’t know what I’m gonna do when I buy my next car?

 

[tracktoy]

Don’t know what I’m gonna do when I buy my next car?

Easy dont buy a new car or just retrofit a cassette / cd player

 

[Tell]

I don’t know what any of this means.
My cars have CD or cassette in.
Even the wife’s 14 plate Zafira has a cd player in which I use the odd time I use it.
I have playlists on my phone which I can use in that too cause it has a usb.
Don’t know what I’m gonna do when I buy my next car?

Well it seems quite a few stream in their car these days using loss less since I answer questions on why they get glitches, hiccups in the sound. Streaming at home is one thing with a solid broadband connection but streaming in a moving vehicle with 4g is something else. Loss less streaming which is like using 7 zip in real time recreates the original digital sound bit for bit with nothing missing but takes up greater bandwidth which will create glitches when the signal isnt good. Most of the streaming services are going to lossless these days or offering that option. Flac is the audio version of 7 zip so as to speak. Mp3 has levels of audio compression which saves space. Mp3 is the defacto solid state compression that people gets their media files and have sound stored on their phones. The magic number of 320 on mp3 is the best you can get it in which is said is "CD quality" although uncompressed has more bite to it.

Whether you can detect that in a moving car is something else, but stationary with the in car systems being sold by Cupra now you should. Those brand names they splash about in advertising.

AAC is the next level up on compression which is more efficient than mp3. Smaller files, smaller bandwidth. Iplayer uses AAC. Now for video streaming dolby 5.1 is generally the thing but little old BBC uses AAC 2.0 since they can't afford to do what Netflix, Amazon, Disney etc do. The mumbling programmes on the BBC is where full dolby 5.1 sound (six channel) fails to be matrixed correctly into 2 channel. Watch those on another streamer and get the full sound.

On glitches in the car, some streaming services download the forward tracks such as Deezer so on your device you get a sizeable buffer. Glitches can also be potentially caused by the infotainment system multitasking and going off on something else although I suspect for the Cupra fraternity of streamers it is due to the cars degradation of signal in 4g but could be due to that.

Only recently really have cars come with quality speakers as a defacto option least on Cupras other Vag brands had more posh speakers in them, Seat didn't. Old days you could change the speakers, now you can't easily since the infotainment unit dictates what you can do. Each speaker gets fed it's own sound rather than like a home sound systems with crossovers. A crossover is an analogue coil and capacitors which supports the bass, mid range and tweeter speakers. All done digitally now in the car. Each speaker has its own output or an amp fed digitally then going into the same arrangement of feeding each speaker it's own source with the crossover done digitally.

Use to make my own speakers lugging the cabinets back across London, crossovers from Tandy and loft insulation in the cabinets. I had a supply of mid range and base speakers, just had to buy the tweeters and crossovers.

So it's understandable people paying good money for their Cupras want the best sound from their branded speakers now sold with the car. Streaming services using loss less compression is one source or if you got your own music library then you put that in loss less. The old mib2 could handle loss less probably mib1 as well - nothing too new on that. Where my two months came in ten years ago. CDs are banned from the lounge, too much clutter. In car streaming in a moving vehicle is always going to be problematic at times. Where the fad for records comes in, I pass on that, but may be turntables in the car will return, you never know. The speed of the playback in my brothers v8 coursed amusement as he slammed his foot down on the pedal. He did get done by the police for jumping junctions. Nothing is free...

On your last question EACs. Give you the link.

For your CDs to make loss less digital copies for the USB.

Home - Exact Audio Copy

Foobar2000 for more clever stuff on next generation audio after CDs... there were some and Audacity to edit in the digital domain. Latter is how I did my MD collection. Digital out, create a WAV file and FLAC from it so the MD copies are a direct copy of the MD, preserving any artifacts of Sony's MD compression. All that software is free using public domain audio compression software.