Tape adaptor thingy for CD/MD player?

[JonnyBoy]

You know the ones, the little casette-shaped things which you stick in your tape deck and plug the wire into a CD/MD/MP3 player so you can hear it through a car stereo.

Does anyone know if these are any good? i.e. do they actually work/sound decent? I want one for the Capri so I can play my MD walkman through its stereo. The tape deck motor is buggered (it plays but v. slowly, heads seem OK). It's the original custom-fit Ford rad/cass, which I'd like to leave in as the dash has to be cut to accommodate a standard-size head unit.

There's one of these adaptors on ebay, £3.75 plus £1.44 delivered, reckon its worth it?

 

[arc]

if you get something like this:

http://www.lordpercy.com/belkin_tunecast.htm

instead - that'd be better and very useful for using in other peoples cars, or houses!

 

[Luke]

for a fiver, you cant go wrong. worth a try

 

[wolfracepunto]

Yeah go for it, mate had his MP3 player hooked up with one and it sounded fine.

 

[arc]

my mate put one in his tape deck, and it got stuck. had to strip the HU down to get it back.

 

[serin]

form the one i used months back, i can say that they are quite good, i cant REALLY tell you what the bass etc was like as it was in a Minibus, but the range of sound was good (if you get what i mean )

 

[arc]

Yeah go for it, mate had his MP3 player hooked up with one and it sounded fine.

"tapes" do not sound fine!

 

[JonnyBoy]

Arc, that gadget looks well nifty but 40 squid is a bit more than this skint student can spare at the mo!
It doesn't matter if it gets stuck in the HU as the thing's no good for playing tapes anyway. Besides, I'm never going to get great quality from an 18-year-old factory-fit Ford stereo and speakers! So long as it's listenable (the radio in the Capri doesn't sound bad considering its age) then I'll be happy.

Sod it. For a few pennies over a Lady Godiver, can't really go wrong!

 

[arc]

£40?

they're not that much. thats the posh one i have, cost me 25 i think

u can get a cheaper one for a £10 or so

 

[wolfracepunto]

"tapes" do not sound fine!

Well sorry Mr im too good for everything

 

[arc]

Well sorry Mr im too good for everything

apology accepted.

 

[The Negotiator]

I got a FM trans for £7 on ebay, made my own case etc. and it was fine although the ease of use of a tape deck is much higher as you don't have to use batteries/PSU for the unit.

 

[Helz]

I use one of these to hook up my MP3 player in the car and it's fine. You're not really losing quality because most MP3s are encoded at a fairly low quality anyway, would only really lose out if you were playing a CD from a very high quality CD player which in this case is unlikely.

 

[Bob in disguise]

I used to use one to hook up my mp3 player to my stilo before i got some different wire adapter things. Theyre actually quite good and the sound was fine and it didnt really sound like a tape at all. For £5 id go for it

 

[Dr_Pepper]

Jonny. I'd hold out for a cheaper one! I got one off ebay for 99p with free postage, it's great, sound quality seems as good as the cd player itself. So yes they're good.

 

[JonnyBoy]

Jonny. I'd hold out for a cheaper one! I got one off ebay for 99p with free postage, it's great, sound quality seems as good as the cd player itself. So yes they're good.

D'oh! Just paid £5.74 for the convenience of that one on "buy it now". Oh well. It's only 3 pints' difference I spose

 

[Dr_Pepper]

Don't worry I'm sure it's not normal to get that price, I think it was a mistake to be honest that he put £0 for postage.

One thing I have done with ebay is get a cheap MP3 player (which I use with the adaptor). Try searching for stuff spelt wrong, eg adapter not adaptor, people don't notice it and you get it cheap. anyway you can't argue with £5 and if it's like mine it works great.

 

[The Negotiator]

Richard I always do the same if something can be spelt like that by idiots...sometimes save a great deal!

 

[JonnyBoy]

Heh, gonna try that trick, I killed my laptop's screen just now (connector is borken, strange burning smell too, machine still works with a monitor though. This has NOT been a good week.) so think I'll search "loptap", "laptpo" etc on ebay

 

[The Negotiator]

Lappy used to work for that.

JB, how much you want to pay for a new laptop?