My oldie saab has excellent sony stereo, but no bluetooth. I use a 'false' tape cassette which has a phono wire attached.
Just wonder if there is a similar cassette with bluetooth? It would need electrical power, of course, maybe a small internal battery. But better than fiddleing with connection wires. Does this exist?
I picked up a Bluetooth audio receiver of ebay a while ago. Outputs to a jack socket so you could plug your tape adapter into it.
Very unlikely.
Cassette head units died out, replaced by CD, long before BT became popular.
this would do it using your cassette adapter, you would need a female to female lead.
Thanks for this, looks good. Another reason for going BT is that the phono jack is poor design IMO; it doesn't wear well by continued usage, then you may get dropouts. But at least with BT, you can keep it together and avoid moving it about e.g. like if a passenger plugs it in to her phone or tablet.
Wow, just what I had in mind. But stangely no brand name to search for? Just the "Bluetooth Cassette Adapter".
Yes:
Note that as with all similar devices, you need to charge the internal battery via USB, negating some of the convenience.
Chris
But whoever disigned the small phono jack...grrr. They work ok in the beginning for a new device, then the socket wear out and becomes unreliable.
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