Interesting how and why we hang on to the "old-school" stuff.  (I still have
my vinyl....Not on the road..)
I think that you might consider an FM mudulator signal that allows for an
auxilary input which gives a
somewhat better sound than your cassette adapter or those FM tranmitters.
If you want to keep your
cassette player in good shape, I'd think you'd want to not keep scratching
the heads with the cassette
plug-in thingie.....

Just my $.02...

Steven
91 Westy

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Mark L. Hineline <
hineline@ocotillofield.net> wrote:

> My music plays through a VW Design cassette player that I pick-and-
> pulled out of an early 90s Jetta. Yesterday, as I was driving into the
> wind and wondering if I would ever go more than 50 mph again, I wanted
> some music to soothe the soul. My iPod is connected to one of those
> wired cassette adapters, but it kept reversing. Drove me crazy.
>
> I later figured out that the volume on the iPod was too low, so the
> head on the cassette player wasn't getting enough signal to be
> satisfied.
>
> I really like having a cassette player. I can run anything and
> everything through it, including tapes nature sounds I capture on my
> old broadcast-quality Marantz recorder.
>
> Mark and Peregrine fille
>