Reviews for Monster iCarPlay Cassette 800 for iPhone and iPod

I had a Sony cassette for my iPod for years. Eventually I started to be able to hear the head cogs rotating. So I researched and went looking for a new one. I bought this one. It worked wonderful for the first month and then I noticed it having volume issues, connection issues, and eventually static that was impossible to get rid of. I ditched this and went to a car stereo sound place and had them put in an aux plug for me. The best decision by far! It wasn't cheap ($250 installed), but will save me wasting money on cassettes that never seem to work properly over a long period of time!

77 of 79 people found this useful

I have this version now and its horrible. The moving parts are visually loose inside the casette. The spinning pieces only move one direction, consequently my tape players eject it often, 3 or 4 times a song. There are short periods of time where it works well, however the previous Monster casettes I had only lasted two or three months. I would recommend the Belkin tape adapter, my last one lasted over a year and half and always worked well.

67 of 67 people found this useful

Because of the way this unit is built internally, most auto-reverse cassette decks will continually try to reverse direction while "playing". This means your iPod or iPhone audio will drop out repeatedly while the deck switches, making it essentially unusable.

63 of 66 people found this useful

I hate to be the one negative reviewer, since I bought this product based on the previous ratings. I bought and returned two of these. Both had the same problem in that it played fine for a half-hour or so, and then the sound quality diminished into noisy static.

I thought it might be my car unit. However, I bought another one by a different manufacturer, at less than half the cost, and it has worked fine.

Gremlins?

51 of 62 people found this useful

Got this as a Christmas gift & was really excited. I followed the instructions regarding turning the volume on the car stereo & iphone all the way down, then increasing them simultaneously. All I got was horrible static. I had to turn the volume all the way up to hear ANYTHING, but the static drowned out the music.

Later, and on accident, I hit the FF button and then resumed play. The thing started working (i.e. I could actually hear the music), but the static was still there. I thought I'd fixed the problem.

The next day, I had the original problem of hearing only static and soft, soft music no matter how loud I turned it up. I tried the "trick" again and again, and it only works sometimes.

Lousy.

47 of 58 people found this useful

The monster iCarPlay was returned within minutes of purchasing it. I tried it in my car with iPhone 4 and iPod classic and the sound was full of static. I've tried fm transmitters, and I was hoping to get better sound quality with this than my current fm transmitter. I don't think either product is worth the money when a new cd player for your car is ~ 125 installed which would have the auxiliary port.

27 of 30 people found this useful

This iCarPlay Cassette worked really well for the first 3 or so months of using it. What ended up happening, was my radio started to read E10 (I have a 2001 Buick LeSabre, which is still in great condition) which means the cassette became unreadable, and it would eject itself. I tried to fix the error according to the car manual, but no good came of it. I got my car checked out, and turns out, it has nothing to do with my big ol' boat. At first it would happen every so often, but now when I try to use it, it automatically rejects the cassette.

This was a good waste of $25, or however much it runs for. I'm a freshman in college, I don't have that kind of money to blow!

13 of 15 people found this useful

It plays for a fraction of a second, reverses itself and then ejects.

14 of 21 people found this useful

I am normally not a fan of monster products because I feel they are a waste of money. However I bought this product after my original no name cassette adapters cord was cut by my car seat. I decided I would give the monster 800 a try since it has a little higher gauge wire. This device not only feels cheaper made than the 9$ cassette adapter I had previously, it also doesn't work with my vehicle. Very disappointed considering the cost.

15 of 24 people found this useful

This just does not sound good at all,like an old style transistor radio.Don't waste your time or your money.

12 of 22 people found this useful