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skipping the head unit

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Topic: skipping the head unit

Posted By: jazzcustom131
Subject: skipping the head unit
Date Posted: October 03, 2007 at 1:21 PM

Need opinions on something...

I'm thinking about just skipping a head unit altogether, and using my laptop instead. It would give me more processing abilities to the audio (like a 33 band eq :))

Good idea or bad?

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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: October 03, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Go for it. If you have a power supply for your laptop, so you can use it indefinitely, I personally see no problems doing that at all...

I would suggest, though, that instead of actually using the laptop's soundcard, which will likely be pretty noisy, and probably won't have very good overall specifications, I'd spend about 100 bux on a good quality external USB sound card

CompUSA has this toy, and even at only 50 dollars, I can pretty much guarantee better quality audio than an internal laptop sound device. Or, try this one...

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