[geeks] fwd: The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod - An Illustrated Journey

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: John Francini <francini at mac.com>
>Date: 2006/11/21 Tue AM 10:55:27 CST
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] fwd: The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod - An Illustrated Journey

>Well, the FCC-mandated limits on things like frequency response,  
>power, and modulation pretty much
>guarantee that the FM signal won't be as good as a cassette adapter.

What?

The little transmitters (in the US of A) are almost always covered by Part 15, which limits radiated power and antenna length, nothing more. As I understand it any modulation is aceptable, without limitations, but the user of a Part 15 device is not allowed to disrupt other, licensed transmissions (like a cell phone jammer, etc.).
 
>Generally, the limiting factor on how good a tape cassette sounds is  
>the tape itself, not the playback head.  Substituting what is  
>essentially a recording head for the tape should result in better  
>sound than you can get from tape, assuming proper gap alignment, etc.

I had a "tape" for playing CDs in my car almost 20 years ago, and it was OK, but I played it on a factory installed cassette player in Ford wagon...

Of course, I much prefer my AUX IN adapter for my car stereo...

Lionel