Surely most motorists can not spend an hour behind the wheel in silence. Therefore, many of them install powerful speakers and a high-quality source of music - a radio tape recorder. If a little earlier the radio in the car was considered an element of luxury, today things are different. There are so many of them, and all are equipped with so different functionality that the buyer often does not know what he needs. Let's look at the problem and talk about choosing this equipment.
What can be a radio in a car?
These media device playback devices can be divided into two large categories - those that show videos and do not show them. The first are equipped with monitors, in the second type they are absent, however, they may contain screens that show the level of certain audio frequencies (in common parlance, “equalizer”).
There are other varieties of this equipment. The installed radio tape recorders in the car are also distinguished by the way they read media files and, if possible, play back one or another format.
There are only three ways to read information - these are magnetic cassettes, CDs, and USB flash drives that have already gone out of use and production. Receivers supporting CDs also differ from each other in the ability to read one or another format of the discs themselves. It has long been out of use, but you can still find CD-recorders. This is due to the fact that you can only burn a disc to a machine with a small number of tracks (usually one album). They were replaced by radio, supporting MP3-format. Due to this, on a regular CD-ROM, you can put in 10, or even 13-15 times more songs.
MP3 recorders that can read CDs are still a success. However, DVD players are gradually replacing them, because one DVD-ROM can contain 7-8 times more songs in MP3 format than a CD-ROM does.
Modern receivers that support DVD or CD, began to be produced with the ability to connect them to a USB-flash drives (flash drives). However, there are also audio systems that are designed only for them. A flash drive is by far the most convenient storage medium, since writing any data to it can be much simpler and faster, and the very small size makes this storage carrier more practical to use. Therefore, the radio in the car, which supports both flash drives and disk reading, is the best option for purchase.
Additional Information
Before you enjoy your music on a trip, you must first burn a disc. Depending on the type of drive of the radio tape recorder, the correct recording parameters must be set on the computer, but in order not to risk it, it is best to record at the lowest speed. As for the flash drive, there is no difference how to do this, because recording to these storage media is done through a special port, which does not require any settings.
The radio in the car may also have several outputs of audio channels, therefore, the speaker system will have to support them. Players can also have removable panels, a configurable equalizer, support Internet access, Bluetooth, connect various devices (iPod, for example), etc. It is important to understand: the “cooler” the radio, the more expensive it is.