I'm getting back to some of my original "old man" thoughts on this MP3 player thing. I went to Wal Mart to buy an adapter it so I could use it in the car. There are only two kinds of adapters available, and one of them requires that your car still have a cassette player. Since my car has a CD player, I got the other kind, which transmits the MP3 player to your car stereo. It sounds like shit! It sounds like a low-watt college FM station that broadcasts in mono and is getting out of range.

I read all the time about people using their MP3 player in their car. Are they driving around with earbuds? Or paying another $200 for a stereo to use with their MP3 player? How are you doing this?

5 Comments:

 Mr. Radio said...

Both my truck and the missus' car have cassette players, so we use that sort of adapter.

Many newer car stereos have an mp3 plug-in on the face panel. Folks also use those to retro-fit satellite radio systems.

I have heard similar stories about those transmitters being total shit at best.

8:04 AM, December 28, 2007  

 Art said...

I checked out some new car stereos. The cheapest thing out there is $80 at Wal Mart, which is just $50 more than what I paid for this shitty FM transmitter thing. The interfaces on the new stereos look like they would be complicated to use while you were trying to steer, though. Plus I hate to toss out this stereo since it still works. Maybe I won't retire the CD wallet for the car just yet.

11:00 PM, December 29, 2007  

 Arthur Willoughby said...

The FM transmitters are crap. Sounds like AM radio.

I'm gonna bite the bullet soon and buy a stereo with an MP3 plug in.

1:14 PM, December 30, 2007  

 Anonymous said...

Dude, you gotta look at ALpine's new direct plug-in head units for iPod. I bought a low-end model for about $150 at Best Buy. It has a wire adapter ($30 extra), that plugs into the bottom connector of the iPod, so everything is digital and direct. The iPod sits in the glove box, and you control it from the head unit. I just set it on a playlist and hit random play. The sound is awesome, no more noise or hiss, and the amp section is actually decent. I have stock speakers in my Tacoma, and they sound really good. (I'm an acoustics engineer, so I'm not just blowin' smoke up the ol' crack!)

-RusT

8:20 AM, December 31, 2007  

 nulabs71 said...

I just use the earbuds.

10:18 AM, January 02, 2008  

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