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The removal of the DVD-audio player in the 2015 Acura line is a move of stunning ignorance. The capacity to play lossless sound in this car is why I purchased my TSX in 2013, and why many of my friends chose Acuras over equivalent cars with lesser sound systems, at least prior to 2015. At the price of an Acura, the vehicle will never go mainstream, so why dumb down the stereo to CD, and loose even more customers?
Although DVD-audios are not commercially made these days, the boys at Acura fail to realize that Acura drivers burn their own DVD-audios from high definition downloads available from sources such as HDTracks and Linn records, and use burning programs such as Cirlinca to make their discs. Listening to music on a DVD-audio disc is the sonic equivalent of moving from a 10 inch black and white TV on rabbit ears to a 55 inch HD flat screen LED. Gutting the ELS system by removing the DVD-audio playback capability leaves only the shell. It doesn't matter how good the speaker system is when the audio signal running through it is clipped as it is on CDs, and crap.
I was ready to commit to Acura for many years to come because of the DVD-audio system, which I expected in the new TLX, but not in Lexus or Infinity. Because of this self-defeating move, Acura has lost my allegiance and my business.
Although DVD-audios are not commercially made these days, the boys at Acura fail to realize that Acura drivers burn their own DVD-audios from high definition downloads available from sources such as HDTracks and Linn records, and use burning programs such as Cirlinca to make their discs. Listening to music on a DVD-audio disc is the sonic equivalent of moving from a 10 inch black and white TV on rabbit ears to a 55 inch HD flat screen LED. Gutting the ELS system by removing the DVD-audio playback capability leaves only the shell. It doesn't matter how good the speaker system is when the audio signal running through it is clipped as it is on CDs, and crap.
I was ready to commit to Acura for many years to come because of the DVD-audio system, which I expected in the new TLX, but not in Lexus or Infinity. Because of this self-defeating move, Acura has lost my allegiance and my business.