Not really 4x4, BUT

Phil,

I was trying to get away from using discs on big trips and had thought about the use of I Pod for music storage. My wife and Daughter have got I River IPODs and I thought of using this but required a FM modulator thing.

I went into a accessory shop to ask about them and after talking to the sales boy he put me onto a new car radio that has a USB port. Now I can have music on a Memory Stick which plugs in or use the I River via the USB cable. No drop in sound quality.

As for your question on sound quality I think it would lose a bit but have not had first hand experence.

Wayne

You have 2 systems to transfer the signal from your iPod to your car radio.
If you have a tape deck you can get a wired device that has an end like a dummy casette tape.
Plug it in and play.
Otherwise get an FM transmitter by Belkin.
Plugs into the top of the iPod and transmits the signal up to 25 metres in good conditions, no problem in car.
Numerous frequencies to choose from.
Sometimes you can get interference from a radio station if you are on a close frequency.
In either case the sound is as good as your radio, CD quality if you have a good souns system.

Regards
Bob

ITrip.

Plugs into the top of the iPod.

I use mine ALL of the time in the car. Quality is.... okay. You can only have the iPod's volume up to 75%, otherwise distortion will occur.

Wolfie

The salesman is telling a half truth as even though you do lose some quality a car is actually acousticly a terrible place and in the real world the loss isn't really noticable. The wonderful frequency responses claimed for audio gear in cars are a bit of a joke as you can't produce bottom end frequencys in a car.......and most of us have long since lost most of our top end hearing.
However thouse little transmitters don't half chew through batteries.

Phil i have a fm mod and it works well with my dvd player and it plays mp3 have had no troubles with it at all because you have 5 channels to choose from so if a local radio station comes in you just change to the next freq ok cheers chris