Best audio format

[Ozsko]

There is no delay at all on mine using FLAC.

[zardoz]

Hello. Resurrecting an oldish thread. Quick question which I haven’t seen addressed in the thread so far: with any of these formats, your FLACs in particular, is there any lag in the menu system? I ask because in my ‘13 mk6 infotainment system, I was super excited about SD card music but found the menu lag in selecting tracks made this approach too frustrating to use.

I’m picking up a MY19 R soon with, I presume, the discover pro system. I’m hoping 5 or 6 years have made the system faster for SD card music.

Thanks for any info!

The current gen Discover Pro that you'll be getting in that R is leaps and bounds ahead of the Discover Nav I had in my MY14 Mark 7 and from another planet (a far superior one) to the RNS510/RCD510. Still using high bitrate MP3 which sounds just fine and can now play my FLACs without a hitch from an SD card (256GB transcend, not the fastest but sufficient). It'll even downmix 5.1ch multichannel FLAC to 4ch with the rear speakers acting as rear surround. Sadly, it appears that the new Discover Pro systems don't support DVD-Audio playback, unless there's a hidden menu option somewhere (the previous generation could). It doesn't seem to do gapless playback, though. But I can't complain. It's about as good as it gets for a car in this class and after the disappointment of VW gimping their first gen mark 7, it's a breath of fresh air. You'll love it.

It didn't, however, like my 2TB HDD loaded with >10k files.

With the special edition, I dare say you'll be reaching for that mute button more often than not, to enjoy the lossless uncompressed audio that comes from those four titanium speakers fitted to the rear of the vehicle...

[bkpr]

Yeah, I knew the Tynaudio package was gonna be worth it ;P