I posted a deal on this a while back. It was not well received; however, I think this is a good product. Essentially, it is a bluetooth kit for your car. You plug it into your cigarette lighter and into your stereo's aux input jack. It uses your car speakers to create a "poor man's" handsfree kit for your car. It can also do A2DP so you can stream music from your cell phone to your car stereo. Anyway, It is $34.95 and I think you can use coupon JA15 to knock another 15% off. Plus there is FatCash.
Very cool solution to those without A2DP enabled decks!
For those brave enough, you can cut off the cigarette adapter and tap into the accessory wire in your car for cleaner power. Then you can hook up the audio through the back of the car stereo deck for a truly integrated solution!
micmin said: This looks nice, except .. my factory stereo doesn't has aux-input ...
anyone used it and comment on the quality?
I have it. It works well. I did have to contact Kensington for a "ground loop isolator" because I was getting some engine noise through the car stereo. More info here.. They shipped it to me free and it solved the problem. The only other thing I noticed is that if you don't turn it off, it can some time get "confused" and refuse to link to my phone. This seems to only happen with repeated connect/disconnects in a short time. Unplugging it, waiting about 20 seconds and replugging it seems to clear the problem. That may be an issue with my phone or the device, who knows. Sound quality is decent.hope that helps....
Edited for more info on connect/reconnect issue...
sam19777 said: Where are you going to put this huge monster in your car?
Further more it is from Meansington. NM.
This is not a huge monster. It is actually quite small. About the size of a standard cigarette lighter plug charger. I use it more for a bluetooth hands free kit for my cell phone....
micmin
Member
posted: Jan. 18, 2010 @ 3:54p
Thank you for your response. I will look into my car to see if can get some sort of ways to do aux-in ... then I'll jump in for one ... Thanks!
lukin4itcheap said: I bought this the other day and it does not change songs for iphone..
iPhone supports AVRCP, but only play/pause functionality. It does not support forward and back =( Write apple..if we complain enough maybe it will happen?
crazypalooza said: stupid me, but do most cars come with aux input jacks?
No they don't. Newer cars have them built into their stereos or consoles. Sync by Ford has it. Newer head units have the AUX input jack also.
It's never a stupid question, only stupid if you don't ask and rather live in ignorance than admit you don't know everything.
theshowman
Member
posted: Mar. 2, 2010 @ 1:32a
I bought this product, but I'm experiencing a weird issue. It seems to be playing the music in MONO rather than stereo, and I think it has to do with the connector. When I insert the the male stereo connector into the female, as I enter the unit in, I hear sound on one speaker, and then as I insert it more, I hear it from the other speaker. But, once in fully, only one speaker is active. Has anyone else experienced this issue or has comments?
BTW, thanks to boulos for the groundloop isolator issue. It is good to have those handy as some cars, including my Volvo S40 has this problem.
I have one and although I like it, note that you can't connect your phone to a bluetooth headset and this unit at the same time. So basically, you can't talk on the phone with a Bluetooth headset and then when the call is done just hit 'play' and have it work, you'd need to repair it every time which isn't realistic. Kind of a fatal flaw for me. Conversely, you can't be listening to music on it and pick up an incoming call with a BT headset.
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