Review: Belkin TuneBase FM for iPod

If you want to use your iPod in your car to play music through your car stereo but you don’t have anywhere to plug in your iPod or a cassette player, this is the thing for you. The Belkin TuneBase FM for iPod is an iPod FM transmitter, iPod charger, and iPod holder all rolled into one. It plugs into your cigarette lighter and hold your iPod up on a flexible neck so you can position it so it’s conveniently accessible to you. The TuneBase supports 88.1MHz-107.9MHz and it’s very easy to set frequency. Turn your radio to the frequency you want, then push up and down buttons on the TuneBase until you have set the same frequency. You can then set that frequency to one out of four programmable memory slots. The TuneBase comes with adapters to fit iPod video, 4G, photo, mini, and nano. Personally I was worried that the holder’s neck wouldn’t be stable enough to hold the iPod without moving it around too much, but that turned out to be unwarranted. The TuneBase holds your iPod very securely. We found the audio quality to be okay for the most part. There’s definitely static once in a while, and it obviously depends on the area you’re in and what radio stations are broadcasting. Most of the time, just tweaking the frequency setting made the audio quality improve. Belkin’s TuneBase is not going to get you the best possible audio quality when playing music from your iPod in your car, but it’s a convenient and cost-effective solution.

by Magnus Nystedt

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