Coby CA-747 Dual Position CD/MD/MP3 Cassette Adapter by Coby
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Digital camera reviews of Coby CA-747 Dual Position CD/MD/MP3 Cassette Adapter
Digital camera Review: Decent
Summary: 1 Stars
It worked great for the one week i had it. However, after the one week of working perfectly: various rubber bands in the adapter came loose, causing the adapter to stop working.Digital camera Review: Decent adapter
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm pretty happy with the adapter I got. I use it to play my i-pod in my car and was really miserable when my car stopped recognizing the last one I had, which was a Sony. This adapter was shipped fast and sealed in its original packaging. This was also a great deal, adapters at Best Buy and Radioshack are now $20+. I used to purchase those exact adapters for $10 at Best Buy years ago. So thank you for the reasonable price!Digital camera Review: Decent alternative for car without media jacks
Summary: 4 Stars
The JBL stereo in my 2006 Toyota Avalon sounds great, but is pre-bluetooth and pre-input jacks so my options for listening to my ipod while driving were limited. I've been using this unit for several weeks now and it's performed flawlessly for me so far. There's a hint of hiss (not unlike an actual cassette) but I only notice it during very soft passages. On my system, the highs are crisp and the lows aren't muddy. I just tried it out with a new Droid 2 phone with equally good results, so now I can play Pandora without bluetooth. I'd buy it again.Digital camera Review: Decided to tinker, now buying another
Summary: 4 Stars
I carefully read all the reviews before buying this product. I liked that people had taken it apart to make it work better in their stereos (and that it was CHEAP!). So I did try it out first in my car stereo (Subaru 02 factory), and it worked pretty good, actually it worked great. The only drawback was that I could hear the cogs spinning, epecially on really quiet songs. I thought to myself, "I can fix that." So I proceeded to take it apart.
Hint #1: Most of the screws holding the cassette together are on one side, but don't miss the two on the other side. Because I did. I believe it was the ultimate reason for my failure. What happened was that I wasn't able to get the sides completely seperated (surprise!), which foiled my plan of seeing where everything belonged before I began dissassembling. Several things fell out immediately, including two springs. I decided to just go for it and take out ALL the gears, THAT would take care of that gear noise. Which leads me to:
Hint #2: The gears in the middle (that would turn the tape if there were tape in the cassette) are there for a reason. When I put the gearless cassette in my stereo, there was nothing for the stereo to engage so it just spit it right back out. Fortunately for me, it was at this point that I discovered the two screws I had overlooked, so putting things back together was a lot easier. I put all the gears back in (this part was relatively easy, even though I hadn't exactly seen where they had all come from). I decided to leave out the gear that was the offensive gear in the auto-reverse posts.
Hint #3: The auto-reverse gear that people are referring to is (I think) the one gear that you have to unscrew a screw to remove. I am not 100% sure on this as I wasn't really having that problem in the first place and wasn't ever able to get the damn thing to work again, but if for some reason I decided to go through this mess again that's what I would start with.
As I'm sure you have gathered, my cassette is still non-functional. I finally put everything back in, with the exception of those two springs, and I really think I got all the parts back in the right spots. But it did work, at least until I messed with it, and after looking at the Phillips, I have decided that the rock-bottom price makes the gear noise liveable. So hopefully I can keep my hands off the next one. Oh, and if anyone can tell me where those two springs go, I would really appreciate it.
Digital camera Review: Deficient
Summary: 1 Stars
Failed to work, had to spend time to send back. Bought one at Walamart for less money and it is still working.