My Blog

I mentioned my iPod before.  Well, my accessories include, a rubber skin, car charger, and iTrip FM tuner.  I’ve seen little FM transmitters in lieu of a wired connection.  It’s been around for years for other portable players.  The sound quality always suffered, in that short wireless trip, from the transmitter to the car antenna, only feet away.  It came out muffled, and all crisp recordings would sound like a 3rd generation cassette tape copy.  Anyway, I was charmed by the convenience of wireless, and hoped the technology may have been improved in the iTrip unit.  However, the sound is no different.  I’m going to try other frequencies (the default is 87.9 fm-and you have load software on your computer to enable the frequency menu) , but I imagine the quality will be  the same.

Here is my point.  Why?  Why are we making this so hard on ourselves?  Why don’t car stereos have an auxiliary input 1/8” stereo jack?  I can’t imagine that it hasn’t been a suggested design.  Are Sony, JVC, Kenwood colluding to stifle the convenience of portable players?  Do they imagine more overall sales?  Perhaps they’ve made millions on little FM transmitters and cassette adapters (remember those? they would fuck up your deck if used too much, and it also sounded shitty)  I’m going to shop for a unit with this capability, or I’m going to wire it myself.  I’m sure there are designs out there.  I just think it should be standard.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 28th, 2005 at 6:48 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.