recommend me an ipod fm car adapter

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i looked at the itrip, but the frequency response was too narrow (50 Hz - 15 kHz). know any audiophile level transmitters? i would probably use it for other things, too, so the quality wouldn't be wasted on an ipod shuffle.

― lfam, Monday, 2 April 2007 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

If you have a tape player in your car, then just go the cassette route. By GF and I ended up doing this after purchasing an itrip. The fidelity on ours was just terrible - although this might be due to us living in an urban area with little available frequency space. On the other hand, the plug-in cassette unit sounds awesome and was about $40 cheaper. Sorry if this doesn't really answer your question.

― darin, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

iTrip works great in my experience. If you want to go the audiophile route then why not wire up a direct line in?

― dan m, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

actually I'd like to know the available and potential frequency responses of ipods, tape adapters and FM hoonja-doonjas altogether. I use a tape adapter on my ipod in the car, and the bass I get out of it is really clipped and weak compared both to a) my itunes at home and b) the same songs when they come on the radio (thinking of recent hiphop here). I know my car stereo--an oldsmobile factory job that kind of bumps, surprisingly--can sound better than my ipod is getting it to.

i have an itrip but it was frustrating to use.

― gff, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, I'm wrong. I don't have the iTrip, I have RoadTrip. Dunno how much of a difference that makes.

― dan m, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I have an iTrip, and it sounds so bad I went back to listening to CDs. Direct line-in is the only way I'll go from now on.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got an XTremeMac AirPlay, and although it sounds pretty bad compared to CD, it's no worse than any of the 4 (four) other FM transmitters I've tried. The iTrip was a pain in the ass. If you're really concerned about sound quality, seriously--go for the line-in.

― J, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

darin otm

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i second the otm darin remark. tape in is much nicer and less gimmicky than radio in. i don't see why anyone gets the itrip when they have a tape deck (unless they want to use it in other people's cars).

why don't cars just come with like minijacks in anyway?

― Will M., Monday, 2 April 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

A lot of modern stereos have them.

― dan m, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

― tremendoid, Monday, 2 April 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, bad phrasing. Transmitter's gimmicky. Line in's effing awesome.

― Will M., Monday, 2 April 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

got my wife a new stereo with line in + ipod control(which is nice but not necessary). Any transmitter solution is fucked in L.A.
xpost what's gimmicky about a line in? it's totally standard issue for at least the past 3 years.

-- tremendoid, Monday, April 2, 2007 4:35 PM (52 minutes ago)

except when it's not like my car ;_;

― lfam, Monday, 2 April 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I use a tape adapter on my ipod in the car, and the bass I get out of it is really clipped and weak compared both to a) my itunes at home and b) the same songs when they come on the radio (thinking of recent hiphop here).

I think you need to mess with the volume on the ipod vs. the volume on your stereo to find the sweet spot. I've had a similar problem because the ipod is putting out a headphone level signal and I think the cassette adapter things are expecting a line level signal. Turning down your ipod and turning up the stereo should help.

― walterkranz, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 02:19 (seventeen years ago) link

In an area with a lot of stations and *super especially* on a trip of any distance at all, a tuner device sux, in my experience. It's such a pain to keep changing the stations every 30 miles or less.

Line-in is wonderful. After that, tape. I heard of people taking their old systems in to a stereo shop for an easy and cheap retrofit line-in. That'd be my choice if I still had a car.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Hello, in England, it's not so bad. One of the channels on mine seemed to work for 90% of the journey.

There are CD players in-car that have no jack-in so the cassette option won't work.

My main question is: Are they all mono or summat? (The one I got was £8)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

(The one I got was £8)

Bargain! Which one, where from?

― ledge, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:11 (seventeen years ago) link

It was in a garage, pretty generic thingy.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago) link

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