| | |  | Cassette Adapters | Home » » » » Philips USA PH-62050 CD/MP3/MD-To-Cassette Adapter | | | | | | | Description: | | This CD-to-Cassette Adapter allows you to play cassettes through your CD player, Mp3 player, or any other audio media player on your cassette deck. Giving a high quality and clear sound. | | | Features: | |
• Allows you to play CD, MP3 or MD players through your car's cassette deck
• Inexpensive way to listen to your digital music through your car speakers
• Plugs directly into your portable player
• Powered by your car's electrical system
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| 0.17 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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76 of 77 found the following review helpful:
 Works surprisingy wellFeb 20, 2010
By ZG1967
There are basically 4 ways to play your iPod in your car:
1) Newer cars (typically 2006+) have an aux input which you connect your iPod to with the right cable. A direction connection like this is the simplest, lowest cost, and best sounding option - but you need a newer car.
2) On most cars without a dedicated aux input, you can hard wire a connection in the back of the head units with kits from several manufacturers (USA Spec for example). This provides sound quality as good as item #1 but can get a little messy as the hardware needs to be mounted (usually under the dash) and can be fairly expensive (approx $200 hardware, $50 to $100 install)
3) You can use a FM modulator with any car that has an FM receiver. This is low cost simple option, but the drawbacks are well known: OK sound quality at best, issues with static and noise from nearby radio channels.
4) For cars that have a cassette tape deck (remember those?!) you can use a cassette adapter like the Phillips here. My older Lexus has a cassette deck and I chose this option before I invest in adding a hard wire connection (#2) as described above. I figured I would least try it for $21 and I am very impressed with the sound quality! I would call it near CD sound quality. There is no hissing or mechanical clicking of the gears in the adapter. I also purchased the Maxell cassette adapter since they used to make the best cassettes back in the day and to my surprise it sounded much worse and had a loud humming noise. So I am keeping the Phillips and returning the Maxell and just ordered another Philips unit as a backup for long trips!
59 of 60 found the following review helpful:
Reasonably Priced and Great SoundMar 01, 2006
By diggler1971
I have two of these devices. The sony that I have cost $20 and clicks when I play it in my one car. In my other car, it always sounds like the dolby sound filtering is on. This one works and sounds better and was half the cost.
56 of 58 found the following review helpful:
Good value & performanceJan 29, 2006
By B. Schroeder
I got the Philips Cassette Converter to run my iPod Shuffle in my '96 Saab 900 with factory equiped stereo and it works beautifully. Yes, it is true that the signal is not very strong, so you have to turn the volume up a bit, but even the little Shuffle can compensate for it and by no means do you need to fear forgetting to turn the volume down when you switch to Radio or CD. The sound quality is as good as the iPod delivers and you have no disturbing background noise. I also had no problems that the deck would eject the tape. I can recommend this product and it's good value for money (I didn't try similar one)
23 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Good performance but poor durabilityJul 28, 2007
By R. Link
I bought this product about six months ago, and I have been generally satisfied with its performance; however, about a month ago it developed an audible squeak whenever it was operating, and recently it jammed completely so that when I tried to use it the cassette player would auto reverse a few times and finally spit it out. I took the cassette apart to clear the jam, but within a few minutes of use it had jammed again, and I finally gave up trying to repair it. I used the product practically every day in the time I owned it, so I can't really say I didn't get my $15 worth, but I'm still disappointed that it died so quickly.
32 of 35 found the following review helpful:
Serves its purposeAug 27, 2005
By Sergey Shabalin
"gadget guru"
This adapter works fine with my mp3 player, at top volume there's slight background noise that can be taken care of with noise reduction if your car stereo has it. Sound quality is excellent and very consistent. It's much better and less expensive than a radio transmitter. I'm extremely satisfied with this purchase.
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