Best Device for using car speakers

[Angelworks101]

I have a Belkin FM converter - OK near my house, but I travel a lot and find that the FM stations are constantly changing - lots of break-throughs & lousy sound. I also have a cassette device that works great with my CD MP3 player and other ipods, but not my Touch. What's everyone out there using with their Touch - I want to take advantage of the music I've downloaded and get rid of all the CDs I'm hauling in my car. Thanks in advance!
Rani

[AndyT4097]

Just a clairifacation, its not an "iTouch". Theres no iNano, or iClassic, or iShuffle, theres no iTouch. Its a Touch. ;)

Anyway, I also have a Belkin FM transmitter. It works ok in the car. I understand what you mean about having to alter the station settings but you can just look in the low stations for one that isnt being used, or the high stations that are 99.99% dead.

[Sparkee]

I use an adapter from MP3YourCar (http://www.mp3yourcar.com/index.php) that utilizes the un-use CD Changer port on the back of my '05 Honda Civic's factory stereo. It charges the iPod and provides a direct connection to the line in inputs. Mine provides limited use of the stereos buttons to control the iPods playback but unlike most it does not disable the iPods screen so you still have full use of the iPods controls.

It is a little on the pricey side, but well worth it since I spend allot of time in the car.

[kornchild2002]

Just a clairifacation, its not an "iTouch". Theres no iNano, or iClassic, or iShuffle, theres no iTouch. Its a Touch. ;)

Actually, it is an iPod touch. The first letter is lowercase followed by an uppercase P in iPod. The second word is all lowercase. Hence, iPod touch ;)

Your best bet will be to use some type of physically wired connection. Best Buy and other various places sell these adapters that will go through your FM antenna input (or some type of input) and hardwire it into your factory standard car CD/tape/AM/FM deck. You should be able to pick up these kits for about $50-$100 depending on your car. They do exactly as Sparkee said.

You can also use a tape adapter if your deck is capable of playing cassettes. Actually, that would be the cheapest route and it would provide you with sound quality that is much, much, much better than FM transmitters. A hardwire into your car's deck would give you better quality but the tape deck wouldn't require any type of installation and would cost you $15.

You best bet would be to get a new car CD deck that supports a direct iPod connection. I have a Kenwood unit in my car and it is great. It has a USB port on it front and I plug my iPods right into it. I can then play all the music off of them just fine. I normally keep my 5G 60GB iPod in there with a playlist of about 2,500-3,000 songs. A direct USB connection would give you the absolute best audio quality as that would rely on the sound processor in the car deck. Most car CD decks with a USB connection can process audio better than an iPod (not that iPods are bad or anything). It would also give you a 480Mbps connection for playing songs which is the fastest available on the market for car CD decks (most car CD decks read data at about 100Mbps but that is still more than fast enough to play WAV files).