Arsvita Car Audio Bluetooth Cassette Receiver, Tape Player Bluetooth 5.0 Cassette Aux Adapter

This is by far the best adapter I have used. Previous ones always have awful battery life and a hard time paring but I've had no issues with this one.

Adapter works great! Need to verify what direction your cassette slides into your unit due to the dongle.

I have an old truck, and I frequently use a wired cassette adapter to play music and audiobooks from my phone. That's a bit cumbersome, as I can't charge my phone at the same time, and with the long wire, it's prone to annoying interference/static.I got the Arsvita Bluetooth adapter hoping it would solve these problems, and it did...sort of. I charged up the device and tried it out immediately, turning my key to accessory (I didn't turn on the truck) and playing a portion of the podcast. It sounded quiet, but fine, and I just chalked it up to the fact that I hadn't dialed the correct phone-volume/car-radio-volume ratio. Since I don't drive the truck every day, it took me a week or so before I hopped in for a small road trip. The truck is 20 years old, so there's a bit or road noise on the highway; I found that if I was going any more than 15mph, I couldn't really understand podcasts or audiobooks, and they were drowned out by the fairly modest road noise. In fact, I experimented and learned that the just having the phone by itself with the volume up provided better results than running it through the Bluetooth adapter.I went on youtube and found many people had similar (or so I thought--it wasn't!) problems and advised playing a song or something, then ejecting the tape and re-inserting it, and suddenly the volume popped back up. I researched mic vs line level, thinking I might find something.Many reviews here and elsewhere suggested taking out a gear in the cassette to remove the "gear noise". That wasn't my main problem, but I finally did examine the Bluetooth cassette adapter and noticed that the workmanship seems pretty shoddy. I noticed the adapter's tape head is crooked, and I suspect it doesn't come down far enough for the truck's unit to pick up a strong signal, but it's close enough to pick up a faint signal.All this investigation means I missed the return window, but I've got a project now! I plan to see if I can ship the head a bit and verify that's the problem--either way though, I don't feel like this worked as advertised, but maybe you'll get lucky and yours will?

Broke after a total of 10 months of use. I use my car A LOT though. That was across 15,000 miles and countless hours of use. The sound has been declining in quality steadily for the last month or so, and got really bad over the weekend. Stopped working completely two days ago, and now won't even turn on.It was a really nice aux when I did have it though. I feel like it lasted a lot longer than a traditional aux would have. I never had trouble with the bluetooth connecting, and it was very easy for friends/others to play music in my car. I will probably buy another one even though it did break, since I felt like I got my money's worth out of it.Initial review is below, but I did update it with my almost-year of use out of it.___Had for a little over ten months, used extensively for extended periods of time.I use android phones. Wanted to note that since several of the common complaints were related to ios. Here are some of my thoughts/feedback on other common complaints:Sound quality:I was a little hesitant to buy because of people's reviews of the sound quality, but I didn't have any major issues right until it started dying. It was not the most stellar sound quality ever but A) my car's stereo system is from the late 90s and B) you get what you pay for.The volume is DEFINITELY dependent on the phone you're using. I got a new phone this summer and I do have to turn the volume all the way up on my new phone, whereas with my old one it was just about halfway. I generally have my car's stereo system cranked to max as the Arsvita is a little quiet, but I also like my music loud.It's really not that big of an issue that it's a little quiet, you just have to remember to adjust it between cd/radio and tape or else you'll get a very big shock when music starts blasting. I also turn my bass up which helps with the sound quality. Even though there's definitely some little quirks it works just as well as a normal aux cord, which you also have to fiddle with. This has the added bonus of the jack not getting wonky after six months.Until it started to give out a few weeks ago, it wasn't tinny at all and had no weird underlying sounds. The bass being raised helped a lot with the sound quality. When it started to give out that just made the tinny-ness worse.Definitely isn't the most amazing music experience ever. I have a couple Taylor Swift CD's and could definitely tell the difference when I just played the CD versus streaming her music through the Arsvita. I think for the amount of use I got out of it and the passability of it, it was worth the money.Connection:No issues with me for connection. Pairs very easily with my phone, it's never disconnected, and has never cut out or been choppy.Charge: I was a bit worried about the charge but it lasts a while. I have to charge it honestly maybe one to two times a month. I have taken it on 12+ hour roadtrips and as long as you charge it up beforehand, it won't die on you. My phone also tells me the battery percentage of the Arsvita so you can generally know.Calls:I never use the call function on any bluetooth/aux. It doesn't work. Nobody can ever hear me, and if they do I'm incredibly muffled to the point I am incomprehensible. I'll probably look into buying one that doesn't have a call function at all if possible because it was always a pain to have to disconnect my calls from bluetooth and put them on speaker if someone happened to call me while I was driving.Button:The pause button doesn't come in handy a lot but it is nice to have, especially for talking quickly to someone or when you're hopping in and out of your car (as you have to turn off the arsvita independently of turning your car off, so it will continue to play music if your car is off).

After a week of use, I am a fan of this adapter. This is way better than using my earbuds to listen to podcasts or a playlist while driving. My boys like it as well.

Worked great at first, but started ejecting itself. My tape player has never had issues, and when trouble shooting couldn’t find the issue. If it stays in, it works great and plays from your phone no problem. But be prepared to have to reconnect each time the vehicle turns off then on, which is a pain when you’re in a hurry - flawed design. Fit perfectly, easy to transport. The battery lasts long enough, but after two days of driving typical amounts (to & from work, store, lunch, dinner out) it had to be charged again.

Bought this a couple weeks ago , no issues so far . Nice sound quality, easy to set up / use . Not bad for price .