It has been several years since I bought my FM transmitter and I have forgotten all my research. My main advice is to look for signal strength and not for all the features. The transmitter is a small thing, maybe 3.5 by 2.5 with a wire or or rod which sends out the signal. It plugs into the headphone jack of the appliance that you wish to transmit. I would avoid those transmitters which require a line-of-sight pathway for the signal. Some of the transmitter will allow you to set the frequency that you want to transmit on. Because all of those are LED, I would avoid them if I was totally blind. The others will have preset frequencies which are usually above 103.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Ford Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 7:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Getting Computer Audio Output Through Wireless to Stereo Thanks! The vast majority of the units I saw on Overstock are the FM transmitter type. Now I just need to figure out how to compare them! There may be some basic specs that I could get to on Overstock, but I don't know until I start looking. Any hints out there on either a good name brand to look for, or is there some easy way to compare? ----- Original Message ----- From: tunecollector To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:53 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Getting Computer Audio Output Through Wireless to Stereo I bought an FM transmitter from eBay. The signal had to go fifty feet through three walls and the roof to get to an outside antenna. I bought a Mobile Blackbox which works. The unit is half the size of a cigarette pack and plugs into the headphone jack on my computer. I also use it to broadcast from my I-pod to my receiver and car tuner. Works off two A batteries. No complaints. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Timothy Ford Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:13 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Getting Computer Audio Output Through Wireless to Stereo Hi All, My desktop computer, running a SoundBlaster Live Value sound card, is about 10 feet as the crow flies over to my stereo, a standard old 1978 era receiver. Due to the existence of sliding glass doors, it is not something I can just run a cable to, and when I tried once hooking up a long RCA phono cable just to see how it sounded, I got a lot of hum. Overstock.com has a bunch of plug in wireless transmitters designed to get audio from a device into a stereo by way of an FM broadcast. These gizmos vary from $25 on up, with most of them being towards the $25 range. Are any of these okay? I want it to sound decent, but it need not be anything great. So what buying advice can you all suggest out there for the basic easy way to go wireless from my computer over to the stereo? 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