Iphone 6 charging options in an AMV8
Discussion
Guys,
Been looking at an AMV8 today and wondered what the charging options are for an Iphone 6? its an 09 car and has a iphone 4 AM cable. the cable looks very similar to the cable i had in a VW previously.
Also, the sales chap said i could use my phone with the USB and a normal charge cable and it would do everything.
If any owners can shed some light it would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jordan.
Been looking at an AMV8 today and wondered what the charging options are for an Iphone 6? its an 09 car and has a iphone 4 AM cable. the cable looks very similar to the cable i had in a VW previously.
Also, the sales chap said i could use my phone with the USB and a normal charge cable and it would do everything.
If any owners can shed some light it would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jordan.
Birdbrain said:
Mines a '10 plate and has an iPhone 4 connection in the centre armrest - I bought an adaptor (lighting connector at one end and female iPhone 4 connector at the other) to adapt this to suit an iPhone 6 and have had no issues.
This. No issues with mine either. 2012 V12V. Not a V8 but the connection looks the same. Best Regards
Minglar
Brabus Jord said:
cheers guys, i take it the USB just purely charges and nothing more.
Nope you can use the USB to connect a memory stick too and play MP3 audio files of up the 320kps. Doing this will give much better audio quality from these than the horrible compressed files your iPhone will play by default. Especially noticeable if you have Premium or B&O audio in the car.AdamV12V said:
Nope you can use the USB to connect a memory stick too and play MP3 audio files of up the 320kps. Doing this will give much better audio quality from these than the horrible compressed files your iPhone will play by default. Especially noticeable if you have Premium or B&O audio in the car.
Some of this info is utter rubbish. For use in the car I have apple lossless (ALAC) converted straight from FLAC by iTunes. These are significantly higher bit rate than 320kbs. Sounds great via B&O system. It's best to use the DACs in the car rather than a device and so avoid analog aux in. Also best to avoid Bluetooth for audio streaming as the bandwidth of earlier implementations was limited. drac said:
AdamV12V said:
Nope you can use the USB to connect a memory stick too and play MP3 audio files of up the 320kps. Doing this will give much better audio quality from these than the horrible compressed files your iPhone will play by default. Especially noticeable if you have Premium or B&O audio in the car.
Some of this info is utter rubbish. For use in the car I have apple lossless (ALAC) converted straight from FLAC by iTunes. These are significantly higher bit rate than 320kbs. Sounds great via B&O system. It's best to use the DACs in the car rather than a device and so avoid analog aux in. Also best to avoid Bluetooth for audio streaming as the bandwidth of earlier implementations was limited. You may have missed that I said "by DEFAULT" - i.e. this is what it will do unless you make a specific effort to use ALAC files as you have done, so I would propose that nothing of what I said is actually "utter rubbish" as you state!
Agree Bluetooth streaming is very poor quality.
Ok Adam, fair enough, I was a bit harsh. I shouldn't post after I've just woken up and not had enough coffee. I recently had an argument with a friend re Bluetooth streaming quality and still have a hangover from this. He swore blue that it was just as good as plugging it in.
My point probably should have been if you want good quality music go for the best bit rate files, avoid Bluetooth and try to use the in car DACs.
For charging a phone you can just use the USB but you cannot play music off an iPhone through it. If you use the phone for SatNav it will drain faster than charge using the USB socket . An external hi output USB charger that plugs in the lighter socket is better for this.
Personally I had an old iPod video kicking around, I filled it full of ALAC music files and leave it plugged in. I then use the USB cable for charging my phone if I need too. Most of the time I don't need too and because I'm not using it for music it doesn't get drained.
In another car I use the apple lightning to 30pin adapter and it works fine but I've not tried it in the AM.
My point probably should have been if you want good quality music go for the best bit rate files, avoid Bluetooth and try to use the in car DACs.
For charging a phone you can just use the USB but you cannot play music off an iPhone through it. If you use the phone for SatNav it will drain faster than charge using the USB socket . An external hi output USB charger that plugs in the lighter socket is better for this.
Personally I had an old iPod video kicking around, I filled it full of ALAC music files and leave it plugged in. I then use the USB cable for charging my phone if I need too. Most of the time I don't need too and because I'm not using it for music it doesn't get drained.
In another car I use the apple lightning to 30pin adapter and it works fine but I've not tried it in the AM.
I went out to the garage to check.
A cheap lightning to 30 pin it would not recognise the phone (iPhone 6 Plus).
Original apple (long) lightning to 30 pin adapter all worked fine, including HiFi quality tidal stream and Nav on the phone.
The question now that I'm not sure how to answer - is this analogue or digital out?
A cheap lightning to 30 pin it would not recognise the phone (iPhone 6 Plus).
Original apple (long) lightning to 30 pin adapter all worked fine, including HiFi quality tidal stream and Nav on the phone.
The question now that I'm not sure how to answer - is this analogue or digital out?
drac said:
The question now that I'm not sure how to answer - is this analogue or digital out?
But if you can't tell then it probably doesn't matter. I love my high quality music but as soon as you start the engine (and worse, start moving) the ultimate file quality and which DAC you're using surely all becomes pretty irrelevant.drac said:
Ok Adam, fair enough, I was a bit harsh. I shouldn't post after I've just woken up and not had enough coffee. I recently had an argument with a friend re Bluetooth streaming quality and still have a hangover from this. He swore blue that it was just as good as plugging it in.
My point probably should have been if you want good quality music go for the best bit rate files, avoid Bluetooth and try to use the in car DACs.
For charging a phone you can just use the USB but you cannot play music off an iPhone through it. If you use the phone for SatNav it will drain faster than charge using the USB socket . An external hi output USB charger that plugs in the lighter socket is better for this.
Personally I had an old iPod video kicking around, I filled it full of ALAC music files and leave it plugged in. I then use the USB cable for charging my phone if I need too. Most of the time I don't need too and because I'm not using it for music it doesn't get drained.
In another car I use the apple lightning to 30pin adapter and it works fine but I've not tried it in the AM.
No worries, I have a thick skin anyway. I agree with everything you have put BTW! My point probably should have been if you want good quality music go for the best bit rate files, avoid Bluetooth and try to use the in car DACs.
For charging a phone you can just use the USB but you cannot play music off an iPhone through it. If you use the phone for SatNav it will drain faster than charge using the USB socket . An external hi output USB charger that plugs in the lighter socket is better for this.
Personally I had an old iPod video kicking around, I filled it full of ALAC music files and leave it plugged in. I then use the USB cable for charging my phone if I need too. Most of the time I don't need too and because I'm not using it for music it doesn't get drained.
In another car I use the apple lightning to 30pin adapter and it works fine but I've not tried it in the AM.
As for analogue or digital on the cable / adapter, I've had a quick google and surprisingly the adapter does indeed seem to have a DAC built in, which perhaps explains why its so expensive. That said thinking about it, not sure it really makes much difference if the cable itself is analogue or digital as at the end of the day it will all boil down to which DAC is best, the one in the iPhone or the one in the AM headunit (or indeed the one in the cable), and I wouldn't be surprised if the one in the iPhone 6 (or even the adapter) was more up to date and better than the one in the AM anyway.
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