I had to laugh. My car is so old that is has a cassette deck and a 6 disc CD changer.
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Extremely.
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Not too old then!
Mine has a tape player that I think destroys tapes, I’ve been hesitant since the first one.
It does have a CD slot too, which has a “Best of Queen” CD always in there.
Putting a HiRes Audio sticker on the tape player has made all the difference to tighter bass and bigger soundstage.
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My 2004 WRX turned 20 in September. Sadly my Jupiter money likely went to a power steering pump.
My changer has G3 - Live In Concert, Rush - Permanent Waves, and Led Zeppelin II. I can’t recall what the other three discs are.
When I lived in LA I had to run a BT to AUX, and then a 3.5mm to cassette because there aren’t enough open frequencies to just do BT to FM, and my stereo doesn’t have an AUX port.
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I literally did a head unit swap in my old RSX Type-S because the stock Acura system only had a 6-disc and Tape Deck, and I got sick of the tape adapter freezing in the winter when it was consistently below 10F. Daddy needed his AUX jack…
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I didn’t even think about the problem of needing open frequencies on FM transmitters LOL - I just assumed there was always a decent free band
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Wait, I’m a little confused by this. BT and FM doesn’t use the same frequency spectrum, not even close. BT is around 2.4GHz and FM frequencies are around 100MHz.
From my understanding, to do a FM to BT conversion you would need two separate radios, including antenna, and probably a simple MCU between them to make kind of a “handshake” / buffering. Shouldn’t be a problem on the hardware side, maybe a little in the firmware/software side but still very feasible.
Well…normally I would never share something sold by the scumbag company Penon…but this is the exception…(Danmachi collab!!!)
https://penonaudio.com/OpenAudio-OA112
Graph is absolutely horrible though…
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Now you have me curious as some of their IEMs are on my wishlist. Can you share some of why they get that rating with me? First I heard of this and maybe because I am still new to reading about the company’s products in reviews.
They have done lots of shady shit, like censoring reviews and having some very obvious shills for them.
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Waifus, waifus everywhere
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The one Penon sells is the limited version sold at 32 000 yen in Japan. Which is 220 usd. Penon taking an extra 70 usd over it.
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Thanks for sharing this, I appreciate the heads up! 
I did too, until I drove across LA a few times. My brother in law is big wig at iHeart, so I probably learned more than I planned about radio. This is really only an issue in a few huge cities, and I didn’t have the problem when I was in Orlando.
LA and Orange country probably have over 100 FM stations, but they also have 10 and 4 million people respectively. That means that 1 in 23 people in the US live in those two counties. I used to drive the 60 miles from Santa Clarita to Anaheim, and learned about it the hard way. There is a single interstate interchange that handles 550,000 cars per day, at times the number of people is mind-blowing.
You are trying to solve for the wrong issue, FM stations try to be .4 apart on the spectrum to avoid transmitters bleeding into other channels ( digital tuners only resolve at 0.2 on odd values ) and the entire range is from 88 - 108. If you try to divide the 20MHz by 0.4 that is only clear space for about 50 stations. The LA local market has 75 FM stations, and is also adjacent to another county that broadcasts into LA. It makes finding an open frequency no matter what part of the city you are in impossible.
Here is a decent list LA FM station list, and it has 73, and all those transmitters are in LA county. There might more Spanish language channels operating in LA than most cities have in total.
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Ok, now I understand. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the explanation. =)
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No need to apologize, you almost have to live in a mega city to even consider the issue.
No problem, my first time discovering it I was driving to Disneyland, and we kept having to change the frequency. I think I was parked, and walking to the security station, by the time I bothered to do the math.
If my car stereo had an aux input it would have solved the FM side of it, which most newer cars do, but the stereo in 04 WRX doesn’t. So I bought BT to FM that had an AUX, and ran the cheesy cassette adapter. I was a pretty low tech solution, but I just wanted navigation when I was driving around LA.
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well hot damn!
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haha i just came here to post the exact same link 
That thing looks like a winner to me!
PS: no eq… from hero to zero in a few moments, thats sad 
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