I bought Kathleen a Kensington Digital FM Transmitter and Car Charger for iPod and over the past six weeks I’ve found it to be the most useful iPod accessory I’ve used. I was looking for a way to use Kathleen’s iPod in our new 2007 Honda Accord SE.
Our 2007 Honda Accord didn’t have a cassette player, auxillary jack, or an iPod connector as it rolled off of the assembly line. I briefly considered the Honda MusicLink add-on offered by the car’s manufacturer, but reviews like this one sent me in a different direction.
I selected the Kensington Digital FM Transmitter and Car Charger for iPod because it incorporates “ClearFM” technology. This patented filtering technology gives the Digital FM Transmitter and Car Charger “the lowest total harmonic distortion and signal-to-noise ratios of any FM transmitter on the market today”. After hearing FM transmitters in other people’s cars, and experiencing lots of feedback from my mobile phone on audio cassette adaptors, I was looking for a transmitter that actively suppressed radio frequency interference. The Digital FM Transmitter and Car Charger seems to do that. In terms of sound quality, it’s a cut above any transmitter I’ve ever seen.
The key features of this transmitter are:
- it connects using the iPod connector rather than the headphone jack,
- it charges the iPod while it’s in use, and
- it has space for three presets, which allowed me to preset the device to unused FM frequencies in Philadelphia and New York. This maximizes the productive use of the transmitter in my neighborhood.
Both of our car audio systems have secondary sets of FM presets. These presets have never been used. I set two of the secondary presets on both cars to unused FM frequencies in Philadelphia and New York. This means that I can press button one on FM-II in each car to use the iPod around Philadelphia, and press button two on FM-II to use the iPod around New York.
As a result of my Valentine’s Day gift to Kathleen, we’re getting much more use out of the iPod than ever before. I recommend the Kensington Digital FM Transmitter and Car Charger for iPod wholeheartedly.