Reviews for Monster iCarPlay Cassette 800 for iPhone and iPod

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

Tried one of these on my iPhone in a TomTom GPS mount in my 2006 Acura TL. Very poor tonal quality. Adjusting the equalizer settings had no impact. Working with the nice folks at the Tampa Apple Store, I tried a total of 3 with no luck. Went to Radio Shack and bought an inexpensive model and it works great. I found other reviews online with similar results so I don't know if its a quality problem or what.

3 of 5 people found this useful

FINALLY…after SEVEN years, my cassette deck is getting some use! This adapter is working GREAT with my iPhone 3Gs.

AND…YES… IT DOES WORK WITH INTERNET RADIO APPS!! (Pandora, Tuner, etc.) Sound quality is VERY good--much better than FM transmitters-- in my opinion.

ALSO! Allows you to hear callers through car stereo and you can talk hands free on the phone. Great with my GPS app too, which was sometimes hard to hear over car and road noise.

IN SHORT…ANY sound that your iPhone makes, that you would normally hear through earbuds or headphones, will now play through your car's stereo! THANKS Monster!

21 of 21 people found this useful

I bought this product thinking it was the answer to all my troubles...I would be able to listen to my iPod in my car! It works sometimes and not others....when it does work it has great sound quality. But doesn't always work.

15 of 16 people found this useful

I've tried a number of cassette adapters and this is the only one that I've stuck with. It works and works silently. The other brands I've owned all had an annoying clicking sound when the player is in motion. The iCarPlay is quiet and solidly built.

The sound quality is vastly superior to the FM transmitters that I own as well.

22 of 25 people found this useful

I've got a 10 year old car with only a cassette tape player. This was exactly what I needed to be able to play music from my iPhone 3G. I also tested it with my husband's iPod nano and it works. The sound quality is good, but please note it will vary depending on how good or bad your car stereo is. Also, I noticed that the quality of the mp3 file makes a difference. For music you burned from the CDs, the difference between the smaller lower quality files vs. the larger high quality files is more noticeable on the car stereo than when you listen with ear phones.

53 of 53 people found this useful

The sound quality is very good. Great bass tones. I was sceptical at first, but now quite satisfied. Sound is superior to CD player, and price is fair.

16 of 17 people found this useful

I have used 6 different cassette adapters over the course of two years and the Sony cassette adapter was the only one that actually sounded good. The rest had buzzing noises or sounded too loud with very limited bass. But Monster really knew how to build this one great. The sound is great and it has great bass too. In some songs you do get the occasional buzzing noise although its not loud. But thats because their an uneven balance between the cars volume and my iphone 3g. In the instructional booklet they mention how to solve this. But with out balancing the cars volume, the overall sound quality blows the doors over the rest of my cassette collection i have compiled over the years. This product is definitely worth the 24 dollar investment.

27 of 28 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 got it on the weekend and in less than 1 min" I return it for another one and the second one didn't work either, so I can’t recommended.

10 of 14 people found this useful