Monster Cable - iCarPlay Wireless Plus Car / Plane Charger, FM Transmitter for Apple iPod shuffle (AISHFMCHPS) Review

I've tried a number of 'players' that allow you to play your iPod or other portable music player through your car's FM radio. I've never been fully satisfied with any of them. I tried the Monster Cable iCarplay because I thought that for the relatively high price and only 8 FM stations to choose from it must be really good. Well that was a stupid assumption wasn't it! I'd say the Monster Cable iCarplay's sound quality landed pretty much in the middle of the different units I tried. The limited number of stations and the design make it very easy to operate but even on an 'empty' station (which didn't occur very often) there was a lot of static. I tried positioning the unit in different spots but it never made enough of a difference. A friend gave me their old Griffin iTrip which allows you to use any frequency but it took me awhile to get the hang of changing the frequency. The old iTrip is definitely not what I would call user friendly but the sound quality was by far the best of all the different units I've tried. Griffin has come out with a new iTrip which is as user friendly as the Monster unit but I have not had the opportunity to hear how well it works.