Monster iCarPlay Wireless 800 FM Transmitter for iPod and iPhone
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 at
8:02 pm
Product Description
The Monster iCarPlay Wireless 800 lets you listen to your iPhone or iPod on your car’s FM radio. It also charges so you can keep your favorite music playing for the longest road trips.
Features:
- Monster AutoScan 3D? Technology scans the entire FM spectrum three times and locks in the clearest FM frequency available
- External Antenna delivers improved signal for clear sound
- Advanced LED display easy to see day or night
- One touch control makes tuning control easy
- 3 programmable station presets instantly recall clear FM channels for interference-free sound
Price: Too low to display
Monster iCarPlay Wireless 800 FM Transmitter for iPod and iPhone
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Tagged with: iCarPlay • iPhone • iPod • Monster • TRANSMITTER • Wireless
Filed under: Accessories
The transmission is terrible, you can barely hear the music over the static. The scanning function doesn’t even pick the best of the static stations, when you are lucky it is only .1 or .2 off from a decent station, but about half the time there is no transmission at all. Also the dial, which initially looks fancy and fun, is very awkward to manipulate while driving. So essentially this is a very expensive ipod charger for when you are on the go.
I’ve had a monster fm transmitter for over a year. I loved it. I broke it by setting a heavy object on it. I thought I would try this newer version. What a mistake. I couldn’t get it to play without static, even setting it to the station my other one had been on. I tried their auto scan feature, it kept choose a station that was playing country music. I could not get a clear station. I’ll go back to the older version which I know works Monster iCarPlay Wireless FM Transmitter with Auto-Scan for iPod and it is quite a bit less expensive.
While I can hear the music from my iPod there is constantly fuzziness and interference. I use a different plug in device for my XM radio FM reception and don’t get any interference. With the cable it doesn’t matter what channel I’m tuned to there is intereference. Sorry, but I can’t recommend that anyone buy this product.
I have had this transmitter for several months. I got this going against the reviews I had read (Only one said it was good). It works but not well. I later got for my sister a very cheap of brand FM iPod Transmitter and it works 100% better then this “Monster iCarPlay Wireless 800 Fm Transmitter”, I would not buy this again. I still use it but I wish I would have returned it. DO NOT BUY IT!!! I do not know how other main brands are but I like all the cheep off brand transmitters better. The only good thing is that it pauses the audio when I kill the car.
I received this product as a gift from my husband and at first I was skeptical because of a few bad reviews I read. I had been wanting a FM transmitter for my iPhone, mainly to use with Pandora. To my amazement, it was really easy to use and it worked just fine with Pandora. The only time it cuts out is when a call comes in. The sound quality is actually pretty good and more importantly, very little static. No joke. I’ve used an iTrip before with my iPod and sound quality does not compare. I would say the only thing that isn’t so great is that when a call comes in, it doesn’t pause and resume where it left off. You’ll have to re-launch Pandora which kinda sicks, but this minor detail is really no big deal. I’m just happy I can listen to Pandora with very little static. I’ve had this for a while with no problems, but if anything changes I will make sure to post it.