Belkin Mobile Cassette Adapter review

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Verdict:

Cheap and cheerful, this is the easiest option for in-car MP3s - but you need a tape deck.

Review Date: 21 Sep 2006

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Reviewed By: Julian Prokaza

Our Rating 4 stars out of 5

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Specs

If your car has a cassette player, the simplest and cheapest option for using it to listen to MP3s is a cassette tape adapter. The cassette contains electronics rather than spools of magnetic tape, but your car's tape deck is none the wiser.

With the cable plugged into your MP3 player's headphone socket and the cassette slipped into your tape deck, all you need to do is press the play button on both devices. The Belkin Mobile Cassette Adapter's sound quality is pretty good and there's none of the hiss you normally get with audio cassettes.

Fiddly cable aside, the only drawback is that some auto-reverse tape decks interpret the silence between tracks as the end of the tape and so automatically switch sides. This means no music until you manually switch it back, but that's not a big problem.

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