What's the difference between re-mastering the CD at home and having your in-car unit using its DSP?

The key word here is "in-car".

Understand that the underlying purpose of IASCA is to promote the sale of car audio equipment. To that end, they are heavily subsidized by the car audio industry. To accomplish this aim, they hold competitions so that I can prove that my "Acme 2000 Thunderblaster" is better than your "SoundCruncher 4250", with the hope that you will immediately trash your SoundCruncher and go vist the Acme store.

For these contests to be meaningful (Hmmm... in the larger scheme of things, just how meaningful could a car stereo competition ever be, anyway. Wish I hadn't thought of that.) it has to be a contest of in-car music-playing equipment starting with a level playing field, i.e., everybody playing the same CD or its equivalent. More than that, the Acme company gets bragging rights and will promote their superiority in their advertising. (Of course, being blessed with a superior intellect, I would never fall for such blatant commercialism, which is why all my speakers are MB-Quart who have won every significant national competition over the last five years.)

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