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Basic, battery-free home tunecasting
03-15-07

Griffin Rocket FM


This device works with any FM radio to turn your PC or laptop into a small, localized stereo FM radio station. We use it to broadcast music to stereos and radios around our house (it has a range of about 10 meters). Rather than opt for a Squeezebox or another steaming media appliance like the LinkSys WMA11B (which we tried), we found the Rocket FM to be a much simpler, cheaper solution that still has superb sound quality.

It works with PC or Mac and it's USB-based so it doesn't need batteries like a lot of the other devices out there. The Belkin TuneCaster and TuneCaster II aren't too bad - and they are platform independent -- but the sound quality is not as good and they do require batteries. The Griffin iTrip is a version specifically for the iPod, but it's just for the iPod, so it isn't useful around the house. The Rocket FM really is the best no-frills home tunecasting device I've found.

-- Robbie Gibbon

Griffin Rocket FM
$30
Available from Amazon

Manufactured by Griffin Technology

 


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#1 | Wed, 08-05-09 08:54
Felix

I was disappointed by this device. It has very low power-- no surprise in that it runs at USB voltage, what's that 5.2 volts or thereabouts? -- there's no way it'll broadcast as far as 10 meters. The sound quality drops off significantly at over one meter. Definitely not the household radio station i was hoping for.

 

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