Technically, the A2DP profile is MORE than sufficient to play fairly-decent audio... there is a total bandwidth of 723kbps available in BT 2.0. A chunk is allocated to A2DP... but what size is this chunk? I can't seem to find this information... What compression method is used? That matters, a lot--because most people are already listening to some sort of compressed file, whether that is "HD" FM radio, MP3/AAC/WMA, or satellite radio.
Adding another layer of compression on top of that is just asking for disaster... Most people don't understand this... I actually have friends that burn songs
FROM MP3s they downloaded, to
AUDIO CDs, and then later, have ended up ripping them back to their PC because they lost the MP3 from before... It sounds like *** to me, but they don't seem to notice.
Although, my girl had done this with a few of her songs, and she never noticed, until she got in my car!
you can hear everything on a decent soundsystem... it is practically unlistenable. Hearing the lows and highs completely drop out, and everything else have the consistency of muddy Jell-O isn't my idea of "quality," or "amazing," sound.
cable-to-stereo = no added compression = win = not being lazy
Oh, and while I'm rambling... IF YOU OWN AN IPOD... please, for the love of God, turn off "normalization," or whatever the hell they call it. It's an option under iTunes... it
completely destroys your music. My girlfriend had this enabled on hers, and her brand-new CDs were sounded terrible... I had almost given up, but then I remembered there was some weird option in iTunes... after disabling it, the "fullness" returned... I think it re-compresses the audio and raises/lowers the audio level... Yeah-- double-encoding is terrible...