Customer Reviews

Griffin Direct Deck Universal Cassette Adapter for MP3 Players (Black)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(26)

 

 

I picked this up at Walmart for fairly cheap since my original cassette adapter was starting to break down. I was impressed at how quiet it was in the tape deck but then when I started listening to music, I noticed that everything sounded distorted. It has to do with the resistor values in the adapter, so I am going to swap out the resistors with the ones from my old tape deck and hopefully that should fix the distortion problem. I would recommend looking for a better tape adapter.

This thing destroyed my delco car stereo. It went in, and the stereo went on an endless rewind which made functioning impossible. It also wouldn't eject. To get it out, I had to destroy both the item, and damage the (no longer functioning anyway) car stereo. Cost me $100 for a new stereo. It would be more fun to inject beer into your stereo. The ensuing electrical fire might be fun to watch, and you won't be cursing "griffin" (whoever that is) for two hours, trying to get beer out of your radio.

I bought this product at target for the aforementioned price and it has lasted me for over a year...sure, I have to rewind it occassionally (not sure why, but I do) then it continues working for another 6 mos. until I need to rewind it again.

I ordered a Coby cassette adapter and they sent me this Griffin model instead. When I wrote the merchant back they told me to keep it and they would refund my money...Huh?.. I just want them to send me the model I ordered. The Coby has a replaceable cord and from past experience, it is always the cord or the jack that goes out. Anyway, until they send me what I ordered or refund my money, I figured I'd try out the Griffin anyway. I knew from the reviews that this thing was not going to work well. I was getting sound only from one side of my stereo and so I wiggled the jack and the sound started cutting in and out. I could never get a good clean sound from it. Junk for sure.

Horrible quality! After months of wiggling the cord to get it to play through both the left and right speaker at the same time I have had it! I yanked it out and was about to trough it out the window but then couldn't do it. I didn't want to litter. The wires inside are soooo brittle. Boo on this cheap piece of crap!
PS I got this at Target too.

I wish that I would have read these reviews before I brought this product from Target. I have had cassette adapters before that produced a sound quality superior to that of an FM transmitter. I tore the packaging off and immediately threw it away. I was unaware that the quality of the Griffin Cassette adapter was inferior to that of any product that I had used before. The sound only came through one side of my car and I found myself sticking my finger into the cassette slot to wiggle the tape around. This would produce a better sound for about thirty seconds and then I would only get sound out of one side of my car again. Total piece of junk. Im going to throw it away before it does any damage to my player. I wish I would have kept the reciept and the packaging to return it.

I've bought this cassette adapter multiple times from Target and it just doesn't work. They either click, distort the sound, change sides over and over again, or just makes a hissing sound. Buy something else.

The item came fast and secure but the sound quality on it really sucked i was hopeing it would of been better then what i thought but i would not buy it again but try a different way to stream my mp3s. Thanks

I have had the displeasure of owning 3 units in the last year or so.
The first one failed to last me more than a few months before the cheap plastic casing for the wires broke and the cheaply made audio wires frayed to oblivion. My second unit followed much the same path as the first, meeting its demise a mere month after its now learned 3 month life expectancy. My 3rd unit was clearly bred under your elite production program as it has lasted me almost 7 months before quitting on me yesterday. Alas there was no wire fray visibly noticed, but none the less, the audio has stopped.

I bought the first unit as a solution, my second out of naivety, and my third out of stupidity. Clearly the first one can be chaulked up to bad QC, but for a second and third failure in the space of a year, that scream quality malfunction, or lack of care. I understand that DirectDeck, and audio cassettes may be a dying breed due to the bluetooth sync and direct AUX hookups of today's newer cars, but to see such an issue as this is appalling. There is no way I can recommend to anyone to put themselves through the quality issues of this product.

The unit is noisy -- and I don't mean that it adds noise to the signal going to the stereo. I mean the mechanism of the unit itself makes a loud noise as the gears inside it turn when the cassette player engages.

The unit jams all of the time, tripping the feature of the cassette player to switch between Side A & B of a standard cassette. This just makes the audio drop out as there is no "Side B" on the adapter. Then typically the cassette player just spits out the adapter. (I have since found an adapter that works great, so I know it's not a problem with my cassette player).