I just happened to check today. And nothing yet.

 

I have never seen a car without rear speakers apart from a bottom of the range rental. Lol. Every car I have ever had has had them. Are they really that rare?.

 

I use the CD player at least once each week, with a different disc each time. You do know CDs are already digital, right? Hell, I wish the IS500 had a cassette deck, like the SC300/400 did until the end. But I'm 52, and prone to nostalgia. I mainly use Amazon music HD over Android Auto, but I like being able to enjoy music off CD without involving my phone. I had dealing with the phone while driving, and really while not driving too.

 

I still use the CD player mainly on Progressive Rock albums and every new album I buy on the first play. Why do I do that you ask? Many prog rock albums when they go from track to track have no gaps and on the CD they play smoothly. (Think Pink Floyd, Neal Morse Band, Dream Theater, etc.) On MP3/WMA/AAC/FLAC/ALAC/WAV etc. played from a usb stick or a disc they will have brief gaps which for me are painfully obvious. I have yet to run into a factory stereo from any brand that does gapless playback. The only way to get gapless playback with lossless audio is to play a CD. Now Android Auto and I would assume Apple Carplay do gapless playback, but I don't always use my android auto.

 

So there's actually two ways that would work for you, one of which you've already mentioned, gapless playback. That's an on-the-fly software solution that simply passes over the gaps of multiple MP3s during playback (as you already know).

The other way, which you haven't mentioned, is to "Join CD Tracks" when ripping (a setting found under "Advanced" in Apple OS; I'm unfamiliar with Windows/PC), which will result in one giant MP3 file of the entire album. For the Windows world, there are several freeware/online options for joining tracks into one mega-MP3, with MakeItOne being one such option. Then, with the various multiple MP3s joined as one, your Prog Rock could... um... progress as it was meant to, even from a USB stick.

 

Oh I know about it and have done it for some things but I shouldn't have to do it. I use a program called fre:ac for ripping and it has that option along with multiple codecs. A little programming and maybe a tiny bit of ram is all the oem audio stereo guys would need to do to make it happen. The CD's and android auto are my workarounds to an issue that only exists for car stereos.

 

Is it possible to us IS 500 mufflers only on ES350 v6 3.5 l non f sport version?

 

That's not really going to do much of anything, even if the already quiet & muffled OEM resonators did fit, as it's a massively different platform, engine, exhaust and layout. The IS500 has a quiet exhaust anyway, it's moreso the V8 itself roaring beyond it. All you'd do is likely add weird drone to a V6, even if a resonater would fit.

You're better off seeing if the TRD exhaust from a V6 TRD Camry or Avalon fits, as it's more for that shared platform (Camry/Avalon/ES all similar):

https://autoparts.toyota.com/product...lon-ptr0307200

 

what if he wanted it for the stacked exh tips though? that's what the kids in the 350 thread want the 500 exh for.

 

There is a sport exhaust for the 350, I wonder if that would fit ours.

 

It doesn't.

 

Seriously? Wow….learned something new today!

 

Definitely better off getting fake tips. I doubt the exhaust for a V8 would sound halfway decent on a V6

 

Hey, I’m a kid at heart but I’m not a kid
Atleast in the RC they’ve fit the RCF exhaust on the RC350 and at least in the video it doesn’t sound bad or drones or anything like that. There’s a couple YouTube videos out there

 

Nori Green Pearl on the 2024 IS 500. Come on Lexus! Do it!