[s-cars] iPod in S4

[Kirby Smith]

A properly designed FM transmitter will provide better fidelity than a
device magnetically driving a cassette playback head.  FM will get to 15
kHz with flat response, and while metal cassette tapes can approximate
that, it is unlikely that anything Bose made for a car would be designed
to do so.  Further, the cassette device would have to be specifically
designed for the playback head and equalization circuit on your brand of
cassette player; otherwise, it can only match the standard for cassette
tapes and hope for the best.  (Of course, Bose built the FM circuits
also, so they could be badly equalized, same as his speaker designs.)

On the other hand, unless one is playing symphonic or acoustic
instrument music sources, or sat at the mixing console when the dope
rock band du jour was being recorded, I don't see how one could
determine whether one method or the other had higher fidelity.  And let
us not forget that in an automobile that is moving, the background noise
will make the subtleties that make hi fi hi fi undetectable.

kirby


Neil Swanson wrote:
>
> Thanks guys
>
> I got a couple of tips about the everything iPod site.
>  The FM transmitting system they offer is the same
> kind of thing my 91 200 had for its CD changer per
> factory.
>
> I thought someone had hardwired an iPod into their car
> but maybe not.
>
> I mentioned what i was thinking to my wife who works
> as an editor at MacWarehouse.  You'd think I would
> have thought to look there wouldn't you.  Bit no I
> didn't.
>
> They offer a few other FM options and some are as
> cheap as $29 for an FM adapter.  They also have some
> that play through the cassette player.
>
> Now between the FM and the Cassette wouldn't I get a
> better frequency range through the Cassette than the
> FM?  I think I would but it does mean another wire
> dangling about.  Neither FM or Cassette will give me
> the range the CD player has I bet but in a car with
> noise will I notice?
>
> Greg Amy (Bira brakes) has somehow hardwired some
> other kind of MP3 player into his '00 S4tt. I'll have
> to ask him what he did.
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
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