I<\/b> totally rock<\/b> at testing<\/p>\n
With the excuse of a television appearance<\/a> last Saturday (as a technology reporter), I spent some money on a cool little gadget that the music lovers among you might be interested in. It’s called the irock!<\/a> and it does the same thing as the iTrip<\/a> but you can use it with other music readers than the iPod. In simple language, it’s a little FM transmitter which you plug into the headphone jack of a computer, cd or MP3 player, to broadcast your music collection over the radio of your choice. <\/p>\n I first tried it with B.’s minidisc player. We got decent sound when we tried to listen to the music from his minidisc to his regular wall-mounted boombox, though we did get a certain amount of interference, no matter the frequency used. The sound quality was much worse when we tried to broadcast music over the amp and receiver from B.’s main stereo system. The levels were very low and there was a lot of interference, even when we put the irock!<\/i> right next to the receiver.<\/p>\n Results were a bit better at my place. I had little interference broadcasting from a Nomad Jukebox<\/a> to my little boombox. Same with my bedroom clock radio. I got the best results when I connected the irock!<\/i> to the Nomad Jukebox and broadcasted music over a car radio. There was no interference on the road between Montreal and Quebec and you couldn’t tell between the music coming from cds playing from the radio or the music sent via the irock!<\/i>.<\/p>\n I paid 55$ (CA) at CompuSmart<\/a> for the irock!<\/i>. A good investment? Well, since I tested it for a television show, I get to send the iRock back if I want to, so I’m giving myself a few days to consider keeping it or not. I don’t use the Nomad Jukebox very much and I can always purchase the proper wire if I want to plug it into a stereo system. Forget about buying this gadget if you need to broadcast from a distance. The irock!<\/i> really needs to be right next to the radio to broadcast properly. It would stop working if we moved it a couple of feet away from the radio.The best use for this gadget is broadcasting over a car radio, and since I don’t own a car… I do rent cars often though and sometimes the cars I get only have radio or cassette players, so the irock!<\/i> might come in handy. To keep or not to keep? Ah, the dilemmas of a technology reviewer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I totally rock at testing With the excuse of a television appearance last Saturday (as a technology reporter), I spent some money on a cool little gadget that the music lovers among you might be interested in. It’s called the irock! and it does the same thing as the iTrip but you can use it… Continue reading 200404852<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}