IOMAX Car Cassette Adapter with Retractable Cable

The sound quality is just fine in my old BMW's cassette player. I recently bought this old car, and I've been used to a Sony Bluetooth radio in my other car, which connects immediately when I switch on the ignition. To be honest, I don't often listen to the music stored on my phone, in the car - it's too tricky to mess around with the phone in its car mount, when driving.So I mostly use the bluetooth with the phone's Satnav app, so the directions come through the car's speakers.In this old BMW, I've tried to think of ways of playing the phone's sound output through the car's system, and I saw this cassette adaptor device, when I had a feeling of deja vu. I've been down this road before, with a previous old car. And I remembered then, that my solution was to buy a little FM transmitter thingey, which transmits the phone output to a radio frequency. You tune your radio to a quiet frequency first, then set the transmitter to that radio frequency. So I looked out my old FM transmitter, plugged it in, and success. A nice clear output to a preset frequency on one of my radio's buttons.I tried it out and it worked fine. However, there is a drawback. You first of all find a frequency on your car radio which is not occupied by a station, so no interference. Fine. But remember you're in a car, so you're travelling around. Therefore the quiet frequency you chose when you were sitting outside your house, may not be unoccupied / quiet when you drive into a different area. So, as I drove around, my phone's Satnav sound out was drowned out by encroaching channels. Damn. Back to the drawing board.So I went back to this cassette device, with few expectations. It's very cheap after all. I bought it and tried it out. Perfect. In fact, I'd forgotten how good the outputs from cassettes can be in a car. I regretted throwing away my stock of old music cassettes. It's true there is a tiny clicking sound which you can hear in the silences, but when anything is playing, I can't hear it. AND, a big plus, is the fact that this device doesn't need a power supply. So one less bulky power lead to be fed from that single cigarette lighter socket. And the lead from this device is so thin that it's pretty much invisible. Result.I like it so much, I've bought another one. Well, it's so cheap. And I recognise that, as a mechanical device, it won't last forever.So I'd recommend it to anyone, for the money. What's to lose?

Actually better than I’d hoped for, I’ve a 05 Lexus that unless I remove the whole dash will never have a new stereo, so instead of costing thousands in labour I bought this to plug I go my iPad. I don’t think it’s the volume of a direct player but it’s good enough and better than nothing by far! All round, from my purchase, I would recommend for the price.

I have most of my music on my HTC Sensation and bought this to use in the car after Audi refused to provide any non-Apple after market phone connection. Worked fine for the first few minutes but then got that all-too-familiar 'beep..beeeep...beep' interference of a mobile phone when you're about to receive a message. It was as loud as the music and I got this intereference every 20 secs or so. I tried turning off options within the phone to try and stop it but after about 15 mins, I couldn't stand it any longer and stopped using it.I have seen other reviews saying they got this but the interference wasn't so bad and wasn't anything to worry about...I guess it depends on the phone then because mine was unbearable.Found an old mp3 player and put some of the music on there and it works perfectly....just the most annoying thing though is my mp3 player only takes 2GB and my phone was carefully selected to take most of my music so I'm still restricted unless I go out an buy a much better spec non-phone mp3 player...but then that's expense again that I was trying to avoid.Can't complain too much as it doesn't pretend to work with phones even though it states it works with any 'audio' device with a headphone jack (hence giving it four stars) but still a shame...

Just got mine the other day and tried it out for the first time on a road trip yesterday.I wasn't expecting too much for the price but was pleasantly surprised. This adaptor worked straight away in my old van's tape player, with a good loud volume and the sound quality is perfectly fine.Also great that I can listen to music from my phone while following directions on google maps and the music will be over-ridden by the audio cues.I was looking at getting a CD player with bluetooth installed in my van at considerable expense but this great little device is an acceptable solution at a fraction of the cost.The retractable cord is a nice feature that avoids having long wires hanging around and getting caught on the gearstick!Build quality doesn't feel particularly sturdy, but I'm planning to keep it permanently sitting in my tape player, so as long as I'm gentle with the cord hopefully it'll last indefinitely.Overall I'm delighted with this adaptor and can thoroughly recommend it based on my experience. At this price you really can't go wrong!