Philips USA PH-62050 CD/MP3/MD-To-Cassette Adapter

 

Philips USA PH-62050 CD/MP3/MD-To-Cassette Adapter

 

Product Description

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The Philips USA PH-62050 CD/MP3/MD-To-Cassette Converter lets you play CD, MP3 or MD players in your car's cassette deck through a direct plug into your portable audio player. It's powered by your car's own electric process so there is no need for batteries, and it produces a clean sound devoid of the static found in most FM transmitters.
This CD-to-Cassette Adapter enables you to play cassettes via your CD player, Mp3 player, or any other audio media player on your cassette deck. Giving a high good quality and clear sound.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.7 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007R4LI8
• Item model number: PH-62050
  

Consumer Reviews

There are basically 4 strategies to play your iPod in your auto:
1) Newer cars (normally 2006+) have an aux input which you connect your iPod to with the appropriate cable. A direction connection like this is the simplest, lowest price, and finest sounding alternative - but you want a newer car.
2) On most vehicles with out a dedicated aux input, you can challenging wire a connection in the back of the head units with kits from a variety of manufacturers (USA Spec for example). This offers sound quality as beneficial as item 1 but can get a little messy as the hardware needs to be mounted (normally under the dash) and can be relatively expensive (approx $200 hardware, $50 to $100 install)
3) You can use a FM modulator with any auto that has an FM receiver. This is low price relatively easy solution, but the drawbacks are nicely identified: OK sound high quality at preferred, difficulties with static and noise from nearby radio channels.
four) For vehicles that have a cassette tape deck (don't forget these?!) you can use a cassette adapter like the Phillips here. My older Lexus has a cassette deck and I chose this solution before I invest in adding a hard wire connection (two) as described above. I figured I would least try it for $21 and I am rather impressed with the sound top 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 considering the fact that they used to make the finest cassettes back in the day and to my surprise it sounded substantially worse and had a loud humming noise. So I am keeping the Phillips and returning the Maxell and just ordered a further Philips unit as a backup for extended trips!

I got the Philips Cassette Converter to run my iPod Shuffle in my '96 Saab 900 with factory equiped stereo and it functions beautifully. Yes, it is correct that the signal is not pretty strong, so you have to turn the volume up a bit, but even the tiny Shuffle can compensate for it and by no suggests do you need to worry forgetting to turn the volume down when you switch to Radio or CD. The sound quality is as very good as the iPod delivers and you have no disturbing background noise. I also had no concerns that the deck would eject the tape. I can advise this item and it's fine worth for money (I didn't try related one)

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