Well, now that is a possible work around...Mount this bad boy...errr kat to your dash and hook up to your aux input. Blast that gansta rap at the drive thru
There was one picture that showed the CD slot below the screen built in to the dash
That is correct. The pictures and video of a Japan market version show their local Japan market model retaining the CD/DVD slot.Pretty sure that's only for overseas models. North american models (Canada for sure per the detailed spec sheet) won't have it.
cds are dead. 17 crv also doesnt have one.
I have 3 kids have a beater suv fully decked out. i used the optical disc drive (plays cds and dvds) probably no more than 2x in the last 3 years.
same reason even laptops now are starting to no longer have optical drives. obsolete. probably people who rely on them are the minority these days.
Better sound quality from using the CD player is a valid reason to want a CD player. In my case, I can tell the difference in quality. With high quality streaming enabled on my phone, this difference is lessened, but I will still say sound quality from the CD player is still the best.
Interesting study. I might have to try out ripping my CDs into 320kb/s MP3s just to try it out. I will say, that the difference between CD sound quality vs Bluetooth streaming was a lot more noticeable in my Speed3 than in the CX-5. I guess that means the CX-5 has a better sound system for streaming music.You should treat your ears nicely... they're better than a lot of sound engineers!
320kbps MP3 is considered almost indistinguishable from CD even in controlled listening environments.
Here's an interesting double blind study done with music professionals I found interesting
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf