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FM transmitters: iTrip vs everyone else in our real-world test

By Nate Lanxon on 02 August 2007, 11:37am

Our next victim was iStuff's iCast Autoscan FM, another £29.99 effort. This time, stuff Sinatra; we're all about Metallica. As Sad But True exploded through our car stereo, we felt a sudden urge to drive recklessly and kill pedestrians. Then, all of a sudden, the FM reception dipped and we didn't get to hear the end of James Hetfield's bile-filled line, 'sad but t...'. To summarise, we felt this was just 'sad', performance-wise.

Still, when the very sporadic occasion of signal drop-out wasn't haunting us, the iCast performed quite well. Its position in the car made a distinct difference, and the closer to the car's aerial, the better the performance. Sound quality wasn't as high as Belkin's TuneCast 3, and was slightly dirty in comparison -- a sad sign considering the mutual price point.

Overall, the iCast was acceptable, but sat in second place at this point in the test.

Next up, Griffin's famous iTrip. Would the Griffin perform as well as we expected?

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