iPod - car stereo hookup

I always thought I had a crappy car stereo since the radio always sounded so bad. My iPod sounds better when I hook it up to the stereo using a cassette adapter, but it's terribly inconvenient to plug the cassette adapter to the audio jack on the top, the power adapter to the port on the bottom, place it all on the TuneDok and undo the whole process whenever I park. Here's salvation at last - I got a Belkin Auto Kit that has an audio jack on the power adapter itself, so that you end up with only one cable coming out of the iPod. The best thing about it is that it includes an amplifier that works on the digital output from the iPod, so the volume level is always constant irrespective of the settings on your iPod, and it sounds amazing, even on my car stereo! Now I can't wait to go on another long drive!

[Sidenote: Hover your mouse over the auto-kit image to zoom it. This uses a css technique suggested by Vivek who also found a nice hack to make it work on IE. The work required to get such a simple thing working on IE is as easy as getting your tooth pulled out. Now would it hurt MS so bad to support CSS2?]

[Tip: look for a new auto kit on eBay - it's much cheaper than the $39.99 you have to pay at the Apple store.]

Tags: apple, ipod, car stereo