ORIA Car FM Transmitter (Black)

It took a matter of minutes to set up. It connects to my phone as soon as I get in car and turn ignition on enabling me to stream from my favourite suppliers... sound quality is pretty good if you have a quiet fm frequency selected. Its brought a slightly older model car into the future, great stuff!

I was looking for a BlueTooth adapter for an older car stereo, and this plugs into the cigarette lighter for power and can charge devices, etc., simultaneously (bonus). It's a bit fiddly to get into FM frequency tuning mode, but once you're in, it's just a case of finding a clean FM frequency that's not picking up any other station or noise - the better you do this bit, the better the sound quality you will have when playing music over BT. The only reason I don't rate this device higher is that it sometimes picks up a little static noise, and that's a shame as everything else it does for the money is great. You can use it for hands-free calls as well.

I've read some poor customer remarks about this product but I decided to buy it anyway. It's a very robust and simple device, in nice packaging. It offers all that is advertised. I've owned a few of these types of devices of varying quality but this is one of the better ones. No wires - no batteries! The audio quality is good and the signal is more than adequate. There are many reasons why users might find their audio 'low', ranging from a low level recording to simply not turning up the volume on their phone. I found it quite good. I could turn up the volume to max on my phone without distortion or sibilance. The output of the device is never going to sound as loud as a broadcast station, since your music does not benefit from very expensive broadcast quality processing! The device limits how far you can push the audio to protect the audio quality, which is excellent with good stereo separation. Note: There is no display (aside from frequency) that displays song titles etc. Listening more closely, I could hear some spurious noise on the FM band and 'harmonics' (sort of ghost transmissions). This is not going to cause too much of a problem because the power is relatively low and you'll be on the move, but since the device transmits all of the time, it may cause a little interference to your favourite station. The most serious issue (on my device) was, although the device can be tuned to any frequency on the FM band 2, only the lower frequencies are suitable. If the transmitter is used on, example, 104 to 108 fm, it generates a lot of noise that makes the audio seriously unpleasant. Mine is on 87.6fm where it works silently. This is fine where I live, but if you feel you can only use the higher frequencies then this is not the device for you. Maybe mine is faulty? Bottom line, simple, robust and a good performer, with nice features. I expect it to last for a long time. It will work for most folks. Not the best I have owned, but if you understand your car radio it will work for you.

Plugged straight into cigarette lighter socket worked straight away sound quality is fine, it will allow forwarding of Spotify tracks, for the money, a great simple solution to an old stereo

Does what it says

As described

Feels like a good, solid product. It lights up decoratively which is a nice touch.Very rarely had any issues with interference unless I travelled to an area where a local radio station was broadcasting on the same frequency or if someone else was closeby also using a transmitter on the same or similar frequency.I've since stopped using it as I now have a new radio that I can actually connect my phone to but for those using older radios which don't have an AUX audio input then this is a good product to use.Just remember, whatever you can here, so can other people if they tune in.

Bought this a few weeks ago for use in my car, which doesn't have Bluetooth. I tuned my radio to an unused frequency locally, plugged the device into my car charger, connected it my iPhone via Bluetooth, tuned it to the same frequency as my radio, then connected the device to my phone to charge it via a Lightning cable.Et voila! It just worked. I did find I had to turn up the volume on my radio quite loudly, and also on my iPhone, but I can't fault the quality of the sound. The only difficulty I had was finding a radio frequency that wasn't in use in my area. But retuning the device is simple enough thanks to the large LCD screen showing the frequency on the device.It also seems to work well for making phone calls from the few times I've tried it so far.Highly recommended, especially for the price. It's much better than the price would suggest!