I have used both a cassette adapter and a radio broadcaster to listen to my iPod in the car. My experience was that the cassette adapter was awful, lost a lot of the high-end sound, and was so bad that no music was better. I later bought one of those little gadgets that broadcasts your iPod on a radio band, and have been much more satisfied with the sound quality. It isn't as good as the -- get this -- digital original, but sounds generally as good as stuff coming over the radio does.
Caveat/disclaimer: I listen to a lot of indie rock and electronica, so maybe the results would be different if my iPod were full of, say, classical music or early jazz.
P.S. All the cheap rental cars I've driven in the last 5 years or so have only had CD players/radios -- no cassette tape players, so don't be so sure your next car will have one!
Christie
Christie Peterson Project Archivist, Muskie Archives & Special Collections Bates College 70 Campus Avenue Lewiston, ME 04240-6018 (t) 207-753-6918 (f) 207-755-5911
On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Wasserman, Robert A - WHS wrote:
Some of us, or at least I, currently drives a car with a cassette player, and there will probably be one in the next used car I buy. Has anyone had any luck with the cassette insert adapters for use with IPOD's or portable cd players?