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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Works pretty good, May 7, 2008
This gadget works pretty good, but is not perfect!
Pros:
>Has a lot of frequencies to choose from
>Good FM Stereo sound & and is pretty good most of the time (sometimes there is some interference)
>Very compact
>Actually worked with my 1GB SD card
>Comes with a remote (although you can easily operate the buttons on the unit by hand)
>Remembers set frequency and last song played if you remove it from car (or turn power to unit off)
>Great bargain for the technology
Cons:
>The display shows the frequency, track #, name of song; but it is so tiny you cannot possibly read it while driving!
>The major flaw is that you cannot jump from one folder to next, you can only advance song by song (but I suppose that's ok if you have all your favorite songs in the SD card, or plug in an external MP3 player in the jack provided)
>Another little glitch is that there is no OFF button on the device. My car's power outlet is always on. So I put the MP3 device on PAUSE when I stop listening (otherwise the songs will continue being processed by the MP3 player)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good for the price, but does have some flaws, May 25, 2008
This FM Transmitter works well. I can hear a slight high pitch hiss at high speeds in my car, but it is not very noticeable at all. The remote was not working, but it was replaced by the seller quickly and the new remote he sent worked fine.
PROS: Accepts both USB flash drive and SD card for memory, has multiple channel tuning for large cities where it may be more difficult to find a non-used station, provides good sound quality over FM Transmission, and does not crackle at all.
CONS: When using the USB or SD card memory slots, you cannot start over from the same location where you stopped/turned off the car previously and you can't even fast forward to the point you were at before you turn off the car or unplug the device from the power outlet. This is aggravating because you have to start all over on a lesson plan or song or whatever you are listening to from the beginning. It would be nice if you could fast forward (and reverse) through the file to where you wanted to be or if the device remembered where it was when it was turned off. Remote does not have a fast forward or reverse on it either - you are able to jump through files or go back through files - not through a file itself.
This flaw may be overcome by using an MP3 player attached to the device with the included 3.5mm audio cable. Then you could use your player to reverse or FF through the songs/files to get to where you want to be.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good news and Bad news, February 9, 2009
I have owned the FM car transmitter for about two weeks. There is good news and bad news. I will give the bad news first, so to finish on an up note.
BAD NEWS
1.The remote is utterly worthless whether you hold it near or far from the unit. Some buttons do not work at all others are erratic and in consistent. At first I thought that it was dead then, I discovered a transparent plastic strip that had to be pulled to allow the contacts of the battery to touch the remote contacts. There was no mention of this in the instructions.
2. The instruction book is almost completely worthless. It does not correctly identify the controls. Has no drawing or photo of the controls. It mentions a 256MB memory for FM units that are black in color (more MB in units of a different color) but says nothing of how to use it. Gives little info for the remote control and misidentifies the controls on the unit to change the FM channel on the unit. Use the A and B buttons at the base of the unit to change channels.
3. The supplied cord to the unit from the head phone of the sound source is too short, only 12 ½ inches long. The jack into the unit is 2.5 mm in size, while the standard head phone plug and jack is 3.5mm. The local Radio Shop does not stock this size of adapter. Fortunately Amazon does. It cost only $2.99 but shipping cost over $4.00.
3.It plays SD, SDHC chips, USB flash drives and inputs from most any thing with a headphone jack.
The MP3 files on the SDHC card as well as the USB flash cards play, but completely out of sequence that they are loaded in the chip. It jumbles the chapters all up. This makes it worthless for talking books. The forward or reverse buttons on unit do not move to the chapters in a regular order but jump around randomly.
GOOD NEWS
This unit is very clear and powerful. As a test, I have tried playing Mozart with a full symphony orchestra on my Sony Walkman. Feeding into the unit and played on the car FM. It plays with no distortion,no static, no engine ignition noise and is very clear and powerful. I can pick it up with a high quality FM portable 100 feet away and 50 feet with a $9.00 FM. This makes for an useful and unintended purpose, feeding from computers, CD players, TV's, Shortwave radios etc, most anything with a head phone outlet. in the house and receiving it around the house or in the yard, as long as you have a static and 60 Hz hum free 12 volt DC power source for the unit.
There is one thing to be aware of this unit, it broadcast in 0.1 MHz or 100KHz channels spacing. FM radios in the US have 0.2MHZA or 200KHz spacing. If the unit is 0.1 MHz or 100 KHz off channel, it will broadcast with very bad distortion. All you have to do is to change the channel slightly to bring it on the right frequency and clear sound.
I bought this to play talking books on tape and MP3's on my car radio on long trips and it works very well for this purpose.
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