Creative Labs NOMAD II Car Adapter Kit
Complement your NOMAD II or NOMAD IIc with the NOMAD II Accessory Kit! Customized for the NOMAD II Series, the accessory kit includes a wired remote for easy access to controls, a convenient carrying pouch for NOMAD II or NOMAD IIc player, comfortable and stylish lightweight backphones and a cassette adapter for listening to NOMAD II or NOMAD IIc through car stereo systems.
Creative Labs NOMAD II Car Adapter Kit Accessories
Creative Labs NOMAD II Car Adapter Kit Reviews
I recently bought this product, hoping that the reviews on amazon.com were true. They were not. Everything's fine with headphones (not the ones Creative gives you, those are really low-grade), but that adapter really kills it. It really kills the beautiful smooth bass that I'm used to, the screaming guitar riffs, and especially the vocals. But as far as hooking it up to the car, I'll wait until they come out with cars that have line in/out jacks. Every word coming from the singer's mouth is distorted as if he or she is using some intentional voice filter.
It'll be CD's for me.Let the buyer who isn't half-deaf be warned. However, the quality of the sound coming from that cassette adapter is absolutely horrible. I'm not very particular on my music; I'm fine with 128k mp3's and won't spend tons of dollars for a microscopic difference in quality. I have a Nomad Jukebox, and I can't stand to listen to it with that adapter. Now as far as I'm concerned, the Jukebox is fine for hooking up to my computer speaker system, or taking along on-the-go with headphones. Perhaps you people have been comparing the sound quality to the crappy backphones that Creative provides on the Jukebox (buy a good set of Sony street-style backphones and you will see what I mean), but I can definitely tell a very distinct difference in sound quality.
Some people say this the adapter only works with Nomad II, but their wrong. It playbacks song with high quality, just like how you hear it with your headphones. I am using it with a Nomad II MG and I even tested it with my portable CD player and it worked. This car adapter is a great idea for everyone who has a portable music player.
Other than that nit pick, I love it. It's called the Nomad II Car Adapter Kit. The fact that people complain that this doesn't give power to the Nomad Jukebox is silly.
If you've got a Jukebox, you'll need to get a 12V cigarette-lighter adapter to provide it with juice. this thing weighs nowhere near the 1.4 pounds it's listed at. I found no difference between this cassette adapter and a generic RadioShack adapter. It does what it's supposed to - output the sound to your car speakers - so there's no real reason to pay extra for one with 'Creative' stamped on it. The connector is straight (rather than right-angled), and the wire isn't anything heavy-duty.
I don't have a Nomad II or II MG, so that might be the case, but I do have a Jukebox, and it doesn't get any power from this accessory. The claim is that the adapter uses power from the car, so the unit's batteries aren't drained. you're probably better off just getting a cheaper cassette adapter somewhere else. the cassetter adapter alone doesn't cut it.One more note. nothing more.
It weighs less than a normal cassette tape, although the box it comes in won't fit in your mailbox. This is a cassette adapter. unless.What other reviewers say is true.
This is listed as an accessory for the Nomad Jukebox - I just spoke to Creative Labs Customer Service and they told me it's for the Nomad II and won't work with the Jukebox. Any ideas. As there is no way I'm buying a Nomad Jukebox unless I can play it in the car this is a bit of a show-stopper for me.
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