The Mobile Cassette Adapter from Belkin easily connects your iPod device, portable MP3, CD, cassette player, PC, or laptop to your car stereo, through your car's in-dash cassette... more
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A review by evilalarm on Belkin Components Car cassette adapter Colour: White February 19th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Sound Quality
Poor
Comfort
Satisfactory
Looks & Design
Excellent
Durability
Poor
Value for Money
Poor
Advantages:
Allows you to listen to your mp3 player in your car
Disadvantages:
Very Poor Quality Of Sound !
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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I wanted to be able to listen to my iPod during car journeys and this adapter seemed the perfect job. Its slick white style compliments the iPod very well, and looks perfect. My friend had bought the very same product to use in her car, and the sound quality was very good! She bought it for £20 in an airport, so when I saw it on Amazon for just £5.00 I just had to buy it... however...
The sound quality is unbearable in my car! The continual electrical buzz over the music, and the rattling of the cogs inside the cassette is dreadful. And any slight movement to my iPod produces a terrible loud crackle over the music. When i decided it was too bad to listen to, the darn thing wouldn't eject from my cassette player. Argh!
I'm not too sure if it's just the mechanism of my cassette player in my car causing the problems, because this product worked fine in my friend's car. I have a Y-Reg Volkswagen Polo, which has a side-load cassette mechanism... so don't buy this if you have a Volkswagen! I used to have a Sony cassette adapter, which worked perfectly, but sadly it broke, giving the reason why I bought this one. The durability of the Belkin one looks even worse. It is very delicate, any slight touch to the wire or the portable device causes bad sound quality.
If you want my advice... if you have a modern head unit in your car, it will probably have aux inputs at the back. So buy an aux to 3.5mm jack cable, and connect it to your head unit. This surely would produce better sound quality.
Anyway, the Belkin case holder which fits my iPod to my dashboard that came with the cassette adapter is great. Pity I just can't listen to it :(
Overall, it's a pretty useful device if your cassette player accepts it. THIS DOESN'T WORK WITH SOME CAR STEREOS!!
Advantages: play MP3's through an old stereo Disadvantages: few
I remember this kind of thing from about 20 years ago, but it wasn't half as usefull as it is know. With one of these cassette adapter you can play any hi tech portable Ipod / MP3 player though any stereo system with a tape deck.
You just plug the headphone jack (standard 3.5mm like you find on nearly all uk earphones) into the socket of your mp3 player, stick the cassette in the stereo, and set both the mp3 player and stereo to play, instantly ... ...stereo speakers.
I bought mine for use in my car, and it served me well till I replaced the car with one with CD stereo. Now it's sat in my home hi-fi tape deck, any time I want to listen to my Ipod I can just plug it into the wire coming out of the tape deck and fill the house with my MP3 tunes.
Instantly modernises old stereo systems into MP3 players.
it's small (normal cassette size) and very light weight, the only real down side is the wire ...
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Advantages: Cheap and it easy to use Disadvantages: A little tempremental
..."music" and got her the Belkin MP3 cassette thingy in the hopes that we could finally listen to some good music.
There are some very good things about this product and some not so good things as well. The good points are its a hell of a lot cheaper than getting a new CD player for the car. It also means that you can listen to 10000's of songs that you have on your MP3 player (or if you don't have an MP3 player it will work exactly the same for a ... ...cable with it (i think its just over a metre) so you can put what ever you plug it into just about anywhere in the front of the car. Now for some of the bad points about it. I'm not sure if this is just my girlfriends tape player but some times when you have the cassette in the cassette player it tries to switch sides and cuts out the music, this is very annoying because it can do this 10 or so times before it besides that it wants to play again. ...
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Advantages: Gives the great sound quality of an IPod Disadvantages: Uses more battery power than normal usage of an IPod
I use mine with my IPod 4G. The sound quality is amazing, as good as my IPod and better than sound quality that I get using the radio or tape cassette in my car. The hardest part of using this product is getting it out of the sealed plastic packaging it comes in. After that is a simple case of popping it into your cassette player and plugging it into the earphone socket of your MP3 player then you can control what you listen to through the normal ... ...control through the MP3 player and your cassette controls so if you like your music loud you can achieve double the volume by using both controls.
The only disadvantage to this is it does seem to drain the IPod battery quicker than normal usage would. That aside I would recommend this product to anyone, it has certainly made getting stuck in traffic more bearable to me. ...
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Belkin Components Car cassette adapter Colour: White
General
MPN: F8V366-APL, F8V366EAAPL
Product Type: Car cassette adapter
Colour: White
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: Limited lifetime warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - lifetime
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Manufacturer's product description
The Mobile Cassette Adapter from Belkin easily connects your iPod device, portable MP3, CD, cassette player, PC, or laptop to your car stereo, through your car's in-dash cassette player. It provides an easy way to transfer quality sound from any portable audio equipment to your car stereo while on the road, on the beach, camping, or anywhere you would use a portable tape player. Designed for outstanding audio performance and use on the road, the Adapter reduces noise by automatically maintaining the correct tension within the cassette deck as you drive.
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