Is anyone using one of those FM transmitter thingys to play their i-pod through the car stereo? I'm thinking about getting one as I have 3 cars (and only 1 i-pod) but don't know how good the reception/sound quality is likely to be. I'm not looking for super duper quality but I would hope that it should be equivalent to listening to a FM radio station at least...

 

Cheers

Is anyone using one of those FM transmitter thingys to play their i-pod through the car stereo? I'm thinking about getting one as I have 3 cars (and only 1 i-pod) but don't know how good the reception/sound quality is likely to be. I'm not looking for super duper quality but I would hope that it should be equivalent to listening to a FM radio station at least...

 

Cheers

 

I got an FM modulator from Maplin for about £20 and it's not bad... there is a slight hiss at zero volume (or just above!!) but it's pretty good at 'average listening volume' and above. Good thing with Maplin is they'll take it back!!

 

Also know someone who's got an itrip - and the quality's about the same on that, but with the advantage of being portable.

 

HTH

 

Rich

hi mate - I got the belkin one which has a 4 position switch to choose from 4 frequencies. Unfortunately the frequencies all coincide with BBC2 and so pretty much anywhere I have been over here I do not get good receiption.

 

I have heard but can;t confirm that the itrip is more congurable and a much better be.

 

hth

 

Cheers

Rich

I ended up hard wiring a £25 SD MP3 player into my radio and fitting an input selector switch. It was a tw@t to figure out which chip was the pre-amp though! I reckon the next generation of car radios will take SD cards.

I have an iTrip, love it as well. Makes things far more civilived and the sound quality is fine to my (non audiophile) ear :D

 

I reckon the next generation of car radios will take SD cards.

Some do already but aren't the data transfer times rubbish? Putting anything on my phones MMC is an ardous process :headvswal

I got 1 off ebay, £1.50, also £6 delivery from hongkong:(. plug it into your cigarette lighter, select the frequency and plug it into the headphone jack on your ipod. Im a bit of a audiophile so to me the quality isnt as good as a good CD but to the average listener you wont really notice the difference.

best is to get a hard wired kit. Sound qualoty reliably good and you can get some nice cradles etc as well. Better ones can control your ipod from the car stereo if if has a cd changer control not in use.

i just use a cassette adaptor with lead that plugs into the i pod ear phone socket and slots into the alpine casette player , that way i can have radio , my Mp3 / cd multi changer and if i want to the i pod as well ,as i dont listen to anything on cassette nowadays and the reproduction is great much better than the belkin thing i used to have .....and it s legal to operate if stopped by the boys in blue !! unlike the fm transmitters

Thanks for all the suggestions chaps. I think I'm going to go for the i-trip option though, I can't use a cassette adaptor as all 3 cars have cd head units. If I was keeping in one car I would hard wire it, but as the missus has her collection of 'chart poo' on the i-pod she want to be able to use it in her car too.

 

Cheers :duffer:

 

Gareth