Customer Reviews

BMW Edition 60GB PhatBox Digital Media Player

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The first few days I was not real impressed with the sound of this unit. Sounded thin yet had flabby bass. After about a week of break-in the sound dramatically improved and the functionality in my 540I BMW is awesome! You don't have to look at a readout; you just press the buttons on the radio, like 4 to scroll through artists or 3 for disc titles. Then you can scroll through by using the steering wheel up/down buttons and it speaks to you. Yes it will tell you the artist name and then the disc title as you scroll through.

I love the way this works as well as the sound. I don't have any of the problems that I had with CD's skipping. I've ripped everything in using FLAC encoding, as I can't stand listening to mp3's! Mp3 may be all right for portable means but it's awful for car and home use. You can hear a huge difference if you have a good system. Too much loss of resolution and detail. Bass is not nearly as good on mp3. FLAC is a loseless encoding which preserves the sound of the CD very well. You can even rip from the CD into an identical WAV but that takes up a lot of hard disc space and the FLAC encoding compresses the file by half and is lossless.

I have upgraded to a 120GB DMS cartridge and even with FLAC encoding I'm able to get my whole CD collection on it plus have room for future CD's. Approximate room on 120GB is about 500 to 550 full CD's in FLAC. If you can stand the sound of mp3's that almost unlimited!!!

Highly recommended!!! I'd give it a 9 out of ten for everything. Still room to improve on sound quality but very good! Better sound than the stock CD changer. Any song I want to listen to is always at my fingertips. Won't give it up!!!