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What I wanted was to use an FM transmitter to pipe my iPod and my Sirius radio. Unfortunately I live in a big city (Phoenix, AZ) and in my route to work the radio stations change just enough that I cannot find any FM stations to transmit on without interference. I have a 2002 Porsche Boxster S and for whatever reason, Porsche put a tape deck in that model stereo. I bought this tape adapter and presto no more FM transmitter! I had to make the modification mentioned in a review for "Coby CA-747 Dual Position CD/MD/MP3 Cassette Adapter" to bypass the automatic tape flip feature. (It seems to be fairly common for people to have to do this with tape adapters.) The Porsche unit has a door that flips open and closed to access the tape deck. This door must be closed for the unit to play. I had to carefully feed the tape adapter cord through the face plate in a place where it did not pinch it upon closing the door. This turns out to be the middle top of the face plate.

This tape adapter unit works like a charm. I've only had it for a week but I already love it. One thing I noticed in using a tape adapter with the ipod is that the sound quality improves if I only turn the ipod volume up to 50% and use the stereo volume for the rest of the sound. I plug this adapter unit directly into the iPod. I don't notice any static or distortion now that I balanced the iPod volume.

I had heard bad things about quality etc. I was very impressed. It sounds as good as anything else that I play in the car, you can not buy cassettes anymore but now I can play my iPod and my daughter's MP3. And you can't beat the price even if it didn't work well.

This is very low-tech but honestly this is TONS better than those radio-frequency models that drive you batty when you enter any large-ish City.

As is, this product will not work with a auto-reverse tape decks. I had read the reviews and thought I could get it to work by using the trick of opening the tape up and removing a specific gear. This trick did not work for me though. My car is a 2001 Infiniti G20 with a Bose cd/tape combination (in case anyone out there is looking for a tape adapter and has the same car as me). From what I can tell, tape decks seem to be very fickle and there is no perfect adapter that works for every car. This item might work for some cars, but it did not work with mine. I ended up buying a Sony model, which has been working well so far.

the first day i got this i was shocked at the relatively good quality it put through, then every day i thought it got worse but i just assumed it was the different music i was listening to.. but today it was just unbearable, the bass was completely broken like it was putting out scratchy loud noise in part of the bass so i had to turn it off and listen to the radio. i hate the radio.
btw i live in northern nj, maybe it's the cold? but i don't understand why yesterday was fine and today all of a sudden it was unbearable.. it was like 30F today not thaaat bad