Philips USA PH-62050 CD/MP3/MD-To-Cassette Adapter
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Customer Review: Works surprisingy well
Summary: 5 Stars
There are basically 4 ways to play your iPod in your car:
1) Newer cars (typically 2006+) have an aux input which you connect your iPod to with the right cable. A direction connection like this is the simplest, lowest cost, and best sounding option - but you need a newer car.
2) On most cars without a dedicated aux input, you can hard wire a connection in the back of the head units with kits from several manufacturers (USA Spec for example). This provides sound quality as good as item #1 but can get a little messy as the hardware needs to be mounted (usually under the dash) and can be fairly expensive (approx $200 hardware, $50 to $100 install)
3) You can use a FM modulator with any car that has an FM receiver. This is low cost simple option, but the drawbacks are well known: OK sound quality at best, issues with static and noise from nearby radio channels.
4) For cars that have a cassette tape deck (remember those?!) you can use a cassette adapter like the Phillips here. My older Lexus has a cassette deck and I chose this option before I invest in adding a hard wire connection (#2) as described above. I figured I would least try it for $21 and I am very impressed with the sound quality! I would call it near CD sound quality. There is no hissing or mechanical clicking of the gears in the adapter. I also purchased the Maxell cassette adapter since they used to make the best cassettes back in the day and to my surprise it sounded much worse and had a loud humming noise. So I am keeping the Phillips and returning the Maxell and just ordered another Philips unit as a backup for long trips!
Customer Review: Best one by far
Summary: 5 Stars
Like many others, I've struggled with finding a great - heck, I'd settle for merely decent - way to hook my iPod into my Honda Odyssey. I've got the last one that didn't have a dedicated line in for external devices, so the only way I could wire it directly into my sound system would be to disable the DVD player. Over the years I've tried the radio style devices and a number of different cassette adapters.
The radio devices required too much in the way of constant adjustment and the sound was never very good even on a totally clear channel. All of the cassette adapters I tried always produced a very tinny sound and required me to alter the EQ settings on the iPod to get anything close to usable, and even then it wasn't nearly as good as listening to a regular FM station.
Recently, my 3rd adapter failed. Enter the Philips adapter. Wow. This thing is outstanding. Unlike all of the others, there is zero noise from the cassette deck (with the others you could always hear the mechanical parts turning and clicking in the background) and the sound is an incredibly accurate reproduction of what I have on the iPod. Even better is that it sounds at least as good - and often better - than the sound system has ever sounded.
I'm going to buy a couple more of these: one for my other car and another as a "just in case" adapter. I like this one so much that I'd really hate it if mine broke and I couldn't find a replacement.
I know this one costs a bit more than most of the competitors, but in my opinion, it is worth every cent. Highly recommended.
Customer Review: Good mp3 Cassette Adapter for iPhone 3GS
Summary: 5 Stars
Philips USA PH-62050 CD/MP3/MD-To-Cassette Adapter
I wanted a way to play my iPhone through my car's sound system. I initially thought I would buy an FM transmitter, which would transmit my iPhone's music to an FM station on my car radio. But online reviews for FM transmitters indicated that none of them were as good as cassette adapters -- partly because, by law, FM transmitters can not be strong enough to overcome frequent interference, especially in urban areas.
Online reviews suggested that the Philips CD-to-Cassette Adapter was the best of its class. And indeed it worked very well for me. I just slipped it into my car's cassette player, hooked the miniplug into my iPhone 3GS, and I can play the music.
The adapter has the ability to change the location of the wire, in case you have one of the minority of car sound systems that expects the cassette to be inserted the other way around.
While I was waiting for the Philips to ship, I bought a less expensive CD-to-Cassette adapter from Pep Boys. The Pep Boys adapter requires that you crank the volume up very high in order to hear the iPhone's music. One of my sound systems won't even crank up high enough to hear it. This was not a problem for the Philips adapter; it plays at a volume you'd expect if you'd inserted a tape.
I highly recommend this adapter.
Customer Review: Tunes in the car--great quality
Summary: 5 Stars
I use this to play my iPod Classic in my car via the tape player and am really pleased with the sound. At first, I thought I noticed a low ticking sound but then didn't hear it anymore, so either it stopped or the sound of the music covered it. The music sounds as good as if I'd put the CD in the car CD player. I do have to turn up the volume to the car speakers somewhat but I have to do that for satellite radio too.
I've never been fond of shuffling CDs to the car and back again so there's one group that just lives in the car. It's awfully nice to now have the option of listening to the wide variety of music on my iPod in addition to the other choices. It would be nice if the unit had a little bag for storage in the glove compartment, but for the price, I'm very satisfied with this device.
Customer Review: One of the best out there
Summary: 5 Stars
I did a ton of research and finally ended up buying this adapter. I had a generic adapter that was awful. The audio quality was really bad, with almost no bass. For me it was between this one and the Sony. I heard the monster was not that great. The audio quality on this one is good, of course it it not CD or even tape quality, but you are not going to get excellent sound quality from any tape adapter. I found that if I have my device playing the music(phone/iPod) at almost full volume it gets the best frequency range. BUT if I have the device at full volume it gets very distorted and sounds like poop. So you will have to play with it. I can not hear any machine noise from this Philips. From the research I have done this is one of the best adapters period, and for the price it is by far the best.