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Stations continuously fade in-and-out and if you travel long distances you often need to change the radio frequency. I purchased a new vehicle that didn't have a cassette player so I needed something else in which to use my XM Radio. This product is a real disappointment compared to the cassette adapter.
That tuner has a built in modulator. This item is not needed for the SkyFi2 system.
It is just a bit bothersome to have to adjust the channel selector while on long trips (as vacant frequencies come and go) but that is a small hassle when compared to the convenience of being able to install my system in any car without having to rewire everything. I wanted to try out the satellite radio system before getting anything permanently installed in my vehicle and this has really helped. I highly recommend this product. I saw mixed reviews concerning wireless modulators, but maybe the unsatisfied customers had bought inferior products. My Delphi adapter has worked well.
The cassette adapter got the XM signal to the radio, kind of, but it was too bassy and voices weren't as clear as we would have liked. With the XM signals going into the car radio now as an FM radio signal the radio's auto volumn control circuitry manages the noisey volumn blasts nicely without making things sound flat.
We like this unit a lot but there is one drawback. Music and speech are much better than before and there is one less wire to try to hide.
We got our Delphi Sky-Fi unit over a year ago and intended to use it primarily in the car. This little "Roadie" FM modulator is a great solution to the problems we had.
Ours whistles for a few seconds until we back out of the garage and the radio finds the satallite. Fortunately the car had come equipped with AM-FM radio with a CD & cassette player so we were able to use the Delphi radio + cassette adapter to recieve XM radio without having to buy an all new combo radio.
But the big problem was that some XM stations, like FOX, make a lot of swooshing and whooshing between segments that are WAY LOUDER than the normal broadcast and their "radio only" commercials are much louder than the normal broadcast and you'd have to be messing with the volumn control all the time.
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