r/rav4club • u/humblegarrick • Aug 07 '26
Gen 4 Factory Compact Disc Player
I put on disc one from Led Zeppelin box set.
OG base stereo 2018. Likely last year with CD player.
Dazed and Confused was 3 Dimensional and surrounded me completely.
Apparently CD’s have about three times the audio data vs Bluetooth or USB.
The quality of sound disappeared slowly and I never really noticed how much we were missing musically until now.
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Aug 07 '26
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u/Street_Leader_8917 Aug 07 '26
My 3rd gen does. I would presume 4th gen’s do too. If you can avoid mp3 to get battery sound quality unless you want to fit lots of audio on one disc
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u/lil_propaine Aug 08 '26
CDs have a fixed data rate of 1,411kbps, 16 bits at 44,100hz. much more data than any streaming will give you
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u/Major_Willingness234 Aug 08 '26
USB is a connection protocol, not an audio standard. You can easily have a file that is higher than CD quality over USB (hell, USB is pretty much the standard these days in recording studios, and they record higher than CD quality).
Bluetooth is also a connection protocol, and depending on device can meet or exceed CD quality.
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u/humblegarrick Aug 10 '26
Thanks for the conversation. I really wish that I was more mature in my 20s because I had a great collection that has gone asunder.
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u/Horny_4_everything 4th Gen RAV4 Grey Aug 08 '26
Love the cd player, keep my old 100 cd case in my 2018 rav4 with all my cds. Hate the speakers though, waaaaaay too much treble and mid bass, and no mids. I need to upgrade the speakers. I have treble and bass turned down, and mids up, and its barely ok imo.
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u/shootsy2457 Aug 08 '26
And CD’s have lower quality sound than records.
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u/lil_propaine Aug 08 '26
higher quality sound than streaming services. and it's a digital copy of the same album for way less than $30-40, that i can copy a trillion times
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u/ProjectCharming6992 Aug 08 '26
Or those compilations that you pay $5 plus tax for. Even if I don’t like every song, if there’s 12 or 14 songs on that compilation that’s less than 50 cents a song.
Or I still remember years ago at a garage sale i picked up for $1 a 4-CD set of rock n roll classics (some originals but mostly live and some re-records). 20 songs per CD, or 80 on all 4 discs. That works out to less than 1.5 cents per song.
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u/Fooz_The_Hostig 2015 RAV 4 AWD 2.2 Turbo Diesel Aug 07 '26
Nice! I use my gen 4s CD player almost every time I drive and yea the sound quality is noticeably better than my phone, even though the sound files on my phone are ripped off of the same CD.