Anyone running ipod on car stereo

Ogre, your alternator whine can be solved by using better grounds within your system. sometimes an isolator can be added to speciffically remove this.

I am running mine through my aux inputs on my Pioneer deck. the adapter is good and keeps the sound quality like cd as long as you use quality cables. I have both the Monster and the top of the line cables from Radio Shack (gold). They are about the same. Make sure you use shielded RCA to stereo cables(or you could get that engine noise-Ogre's problem).

Also, all head units are not equal. Some have auxillary inputs and some don't. Make sure you check first, because you may have to go another route.

Again, this is not RF (tunecast like products), these examples are "hardwired." The RF(through radio signal) doesn't sound half as good.

I've seen an adapter that runs through your multi changer input and you can control the ipod from the head set, it will also charge the ipod for you! so I should get cd quality sound i think?

Thanks

It also makes a big difference if your hard-wiring from your iPod's headphone jack or the line out. I use <a href="http://www.monstercable.com/computer/productPageComputer.asp?pin=2132">this charger</a> from Monster that features a line-out jack coming from the bottom connector. Sound is much better than when using the headphone jack.

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This ( http://www.monstercable.com/computer/productPageComputer.asp?pin=2132) is the car charger I use. I believe Belkin has a similar product.

using the 420i and its close to CD quality but you can hear "compression" on the songs. Loss of mids, more bass, not as open. But this has to do with music files in general. Most of my tunes are in 128 but i tried going higher to 192 and above. Still sounds the same to me... oh well.

overall the 420i into a HU sounds pretty good. I've used Aux-Pod with some success but it didn't work for me. FORGET the FM stuff, please, don't bother! I was lucky enough to be able to return my Monster FM...

My iPod mini is hardwired from lineout (www.sik.com) to AUX-Input (Alternative CD-Changer) on my Alpine. The charger portion of my sik imp cable is not plugged into the car charger port, I just had it hardwired straight to the fuse box. :) My ipod sits on a proclip.

Works for me.

I use the same Monster car charger as Monk and like it fine. I don't have face jacks on my car stereo so use iTrip to listen in the car. It sounds good enough for me and is very convenient. The only problem is that I have to change frequencies on a long drive. Nothing is perfect.