Sonic Impact 5026 Wireless FM Music Adapter

Good product great transmission area can hear it in every room in the Condo, Even in my Van if I'm downstairs. Only problem. Had to splice new plugs into the two I bought. They need extension wires anyway to get the best tansmission. As long as shipping is free go for it. Headphone plugs fail too, plus I can't even fit those new ones in my ear.
 
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Works in the car, or in the office to play web radio through my stereo. Freshly charged batteries are the key to crystal clear sound.
 
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For the price you cant beat it. A little cheaply made, it is hard to dial in the frequency you are trying to broadcast. If your not going to use it alot it is worth the cash. I would go a little more expensive next time.
 
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This won't match your home stereo, but it works about like I expected. Hey, for $6 it maybe even works better than I expected!
 
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Probably not the best sound quality out there but my local super store only carried fm transmitters "for ipods" that were $50, no thanks. I think this one was $4.99 with free shipping and it sounds pretty good. Gets some static now and then but for $4.99 I am very happy with this purchase. Bought this to replace one I lost which was four times this price and there is very little difference in quality.
 
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Its a good product for a low price. Works great.
 
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Sonic fm transmitter is really handy to use but i get a lot of static. Also you need to keep it really close to the player. Its not the value for money better spend a little more and get the one the ones that you can out on your cigarette lighter case. Those are much better ones, i am using one of those in my other car and i am really satisfied with its response, its around 12$ but worth it.
 
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This does not work! Plain and simple. I used all availble open radio waves notably 88.1 amd 107.5, 107.1 everything nothing worked. For five bucks it's not even worth the price to ship it back and that's the good thing. My other FM transmitter just plug and play. I have the open airwaves saved on my fm radio.
 
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I wanted the product to transmit from a Garmin Nuvi to my FM radio in a 2005 Honda Accord. The device has a VERY weak FM transmitter so with it placed right on top of the dash board or even right in front of the radio, it can just barely be picked up. Even worse, as the car moves the device isn't powerful enough to a strong signal going to the radio. The result is music and voice are very often lost just like the device is not working at all. Again, do not buy. It is a waste of money.
 
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Bought this from buy.com works great. just popped in the 2 new Duracell AAAs and tuned my car FM Radio to 88.1 & it started working immediately (I drive a 98 Honda Civic in a large Metro area). Pros : Excellent Quality, especially for the cost. Signal was strong enough to reach into my colleague's car (a recent Ford Focus) parked next to mine in my test. cool looks! Cons: uses 2 AAA (havent used enough to test batery life), FM freq dial has to be set very carefully, if you aaccidently rotate the dial and lose the setting for your frequency. A suggestion for all the negative reviews below: try using new batteries and after you tune your FM radio to a frequency, use your thumb gently but firmly to adjust the adapter's broadcast frequency till you get the best sound. try placing your mp3 and this adapter on the dash above your radio, the windshield might be reflecting some more signal into your radio. try with home radio to check quality of quality is poor in car, or try another location for the initial tune up. All in all excellent product for the money
 
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The signal that it provides is very limited and weak. I can't even use it in my car.
 
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SAVE YOUR MONEY I have to place it less than a foot away from my radio for it to work. It picks up interference and causes the reception of some unknown radio station as you move it slightly! It's sensitive to movement. The range is the worst I have ever seen. You don't have much room to tune it. You're screwed if radio is already transmitted in that narrow range. That's what you'd expect out of a $5 transmitter. Maybe not. I expect that whatever I buy DOES work for whatever it is advertised to do regardless of the cost.
 
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This did not function properly out of the box. After installing the batteries and following the instructions, I was not able to get this to work. The indicator light came on, but I was never able to pick up a signal from any of the 4 radios I tried. It's too cheap to return. The shipping would be more than I paid. Hopefully others have a better experience.
 
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I had a lot of trouble fine tuning this device to the right frequency on my FM radio. Once I managed to fine tune it, the sound quality was bad. I tried using this device in my other car (thinking that I just had a bad radio in my first car), but I couldn't even tune it.
 
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For the money i paid for this piece, it performs to the dot. The range is no more than 25 feet. for the money it is good.
 
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I bought the Sonic wireless music adapter with some doubts but when I got it and used it, it worked great.it works all the time and just about anywhere I have tried it. thank-you
 
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The sound quality is not that good.
 
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I just ordered 2 more. They do the job and are really easy to use. My wife and I both have older vehicles without the jack to plug in our ipods. When she saw mine she wanted one for her and our daughter. It does pick up static in larger metro areas so may not be a good choice there. We live in rural area and it works just fine
 
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Worked fine out of box. Sound quality fine, but need to set the digital channel first then use the dial to tune, very very sensitive
 
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the fm trasmitter which i bought looks nice and easy to use but the out come is worthless. the sound comes with lots of noice. i bought this FM transmitter and tried to use it only once but it was not satisfactory. the out put is very low and disturbing.
 
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This unit is just good for short range indoor use only. Do not buy if you plan to use it in car, where you will definitely find interference of other frequencies and devices.
 
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Hello What more can you ask for? After reading your other customers reviews I did not know what to expect when I received my product. Well I was quite pleased with the performance, tone quality and needless to say the price. It was easy to setup and use and this past week end I drove through downtown Seattle and had no reception problems at all. Buy.com; keep supplying those great products and great prices and I'll keep buying them. DD
 
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This is a good gadget with short range of work. Pros: Cheapesst, good sound, handy Cons: External battery, less range of work and FM. What you get is more than what you paid.
 
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I bought this product to try new technology, and its was cheap
 
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Buy this if you want a noisy rendition of the songs in ur MP3 player.
 
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Easy enough to use, but the sound quality is poor, plus there's occasional static. It might work better out in the country where there's fewer stations at the low end of the dial, but in any sort of urban area, forget about it.
 
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Great little unit. Works very well
 
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It is worth to spend this dollar in Starbucks.
 
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If you do not have cable that can connect your player and the audio device, this might be useful. Else, i dont think so! The efficient range is very small... Otherwise, the product is ok.
 
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Kinda hard to get the station in just right, but you get what you pay for.
 
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The Fm transmitter works well with my potable CD player. The music sounds very good on my FM radio.
 
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The only reason I bought this product is because of the price. I thought I'll give it a try and hope it will work. I knew it was too good to be true and it turns out that way. Analog tuning is not very good. I tried on several devices and none of them works and full of statics. I would not buy anything that is too good to be true again even if it is cheap. Don't waste your money on this device.
 
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save your $5 for a gallon of gas.... i bought two.... junk junk junk junk junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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This FM adapter is very convenient to use.I play my mp3 player by using it about 30 feet far from my radio, it can work good.That's why I bought four more adapters from Buy.com and all of them work good like first one I bought. I like that product too much.
 
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With this price, it is OK, range of FM transmission is very less about 1 ft for good sound without noise, within a room, my FM radio is not able to receive the tranmission.
 
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I have tried many of these devices in search of a reliable one with range beyond the end of my arm. This one works and the price is right. I connect it to our TV sound out, sit in my recliner and tune it in on my Creative ZEN FM tuner. I can adjust the ZEN volume to my needs and my wife (who has better hearing) uses the TV speakers turned way down and all is well. It has a DC input connector so with a 3vt DC (well filtered) external power unit, I don't have any battery worries and just leave it on all the time. Have no use for it in the car so have not tried it there.
 
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Actually tunes to any unused frequency between 88.0 and 89.9 MHz, whatever you have available locally. Can be a little spotty when city driving in your car as local radio station signals to your FM radio can vary while in motion. Works great in rural driving and at home when stationary. I think it broadcasts in mono, not stereo. Gread gadget for the price!
 
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I like this product very much. I am getting perfect voice by this. I have set my FM channel at 87.7 MHz and then tried to tune the frequency from this adapter by turning the wheel to match. I am getting perfect voice with very good quality. Another advantage is that you can use the 3 volt adapter to power it up and you dont need battery. Really nice deal to buy.
 
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Easy to use but doesn't work very well. Placement is the key, it doesn't work unless you have it just right. Unless you don't mind white noise while you are trying to here your music. I really hoped this would solve my problem, but my search will continue.
 
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Its Cheap and Good,, easy to use it
 
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At $5.00 I had very low expectations, which is why I wasn't disappointed. It has a very narrow analog band range and is very noisy. Not worth the time let alone the five bucks.
 
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Sitting in a parked car the unit is barely functional, with clear music only heard while it is held in hand, and cannot be tuned to play without hiss when it is set down. On the road I can not make it work at all. Since it does not work as advertised, it is not even worth the low price for which it is sold.
 
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Need to keep adjusting the frequencies since this has a analog tuner, and it is hard to find a free channel in the place where I live and this is not serving my purpose.
 
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I advice not to buy this product as it does not work if your tuner has a seek mode, go for a better version.
 
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Well, add my voice to the others who have reviewed this device and found it totally unsatisfactory. Buy.com claims "Full Stereo Sound" which is the only reason I bought it, but this is untrue. It is MONAURAL only. I am an electronic engineer. I took it apart to verify this. No way it can do stereo. Add that to the very poor sound quality with lots of distortion and little dynamic range, and I'd say it is worthless. Mine went in the trash. If it cost a dollar more I'd be pounding on Buy.com for a refund!
 
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This product is simply useless because it has a transmission range of an inch or 4 inches if I have to state on a maximum scale. - just 88.00 to 89.5 range of FM frequency is limited too Bottomline, since I purchased I cannot use it at all.
 
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My car is a bit old and CD player in it cannot play MP3 CDs. I was looking for some solution which would allow me to play my fav songs. This one was a perfect match since It uses my cars inbuilt radio and rest of the sound system. I was hesitatnt to buy this stuff because of very bad previous reviews but I was proven wrong when the product arrived. It works extreamly well with my iPod nano. Crystal clear full range sound in my Toyota camry. I just popped in 2 AAA cells and tuned my radio to 88.5. Then switched on the transmitter and slowly operated the frequency range switch, in no time, I was listening to my fav songs. Thanks for such a great product.
 
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Radio transmission is really bad, so actually no point to install this device. Don't buy.
 
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It is OK for the car quality but may not be as good for a quality sound at home
 
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Extremely easy to setup and connect.....Only problem.....its horrible sound quality. Too much noise. Sensitive dial to set frequency. Just dont waste your time. Cassette adapter is much better.
 
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On the ipod, I set the volume to max but it was still coming thru very soft. Lots of static. Transmitted in mono. Sound quality was very poor. It's utterly useless unless you can get a good reception in Stereo. I tried on 4 different Radios with same poor result.
 
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