I was trolling eBay last night buying a bunch of small stuff and ran across a bluetooth audio receiver with a 3.5mm female plug in it. So, from what I understand, I can get one of those, do the cassette tape deck mod, plug the cord into the bluetooth adapter, turn on my phone and sync it to the bluetooth, and play music right off of my phone.

So, here's the plan. When I get it in from eBay (under $20), I will plug it into my newly modded SC-816 old as& stereo, and see how it works. If it works well, I will report back on this thread...

Stay tuned.

 

Anxious to see how this works out!

 

I've had the cassette adapter for years now...like to see how this turns out.

 

I have a fm radio transmitter I use for my Iphone. Put the phone on speaker, hook the fm transmitter into the 3.5mm headphone jack, tune radio to freq. set on transmitter....talk through the radio.

Transmitter cost $5. Works like a champ.

 

Most of those FM transmitters don't work real well, especially in big cities. Has radio quality sound. We want DIGITAL sound. I can start a chant on that.

From what I hear, the average life span of the FM transmitters is about 18 months.

The only think I think I'm not going to like about the bluetooth receiver is that it will need power from somewhere, like a lighter adapter. I'm trying to clean up the wires around here, not cause more need for connections. I will likely hard wire the bluetooth receiver behind the dash somewhere or under the dash.

 

3 years and still kicking man. Just eat through batterys.

be interesting to see how the Bluetooth works out though. Might try it myself.

 

Got the bluetooth receiver today. Hookup up very quickly. To me it sounds like an FM radio station. A far cry from the crisp clean sound I get from my cable. So for me, I'm going to use the cable. The cassette adapter sounds better than the bluetooth receiver. Just doesn't have the band width.

 

On a possitive note, I figured out that my power amp was not hooked up so I connected it today. The sound is a little deeper and kicks a little harder. Not a big difference from the Premium Sound System but it is noticable.