Which gives better sound and why: cassette adapter or FM transmitter

[TerryMathews]

My car has only a tape player and I have no real desire to change out the headunit as I just want to use my Archos Jukebox 20 in it. That part isn't HT. What is highly technical, is that I want to know whether those FM transmitters have a better sound quality over the tape adapters or not.

 

[Mingon]

IIRC the tape is better as long as the head meet correctly, this sometimes need adjusting manually.

 

[Peter]

If you ever want to use a tape in this radio again, go with the FM adapter. That's because those tape adapters tend to push too strong a magnetic field into the radio's tape head, which might magnetize the latter. They're also less fiddly to use while driving. Just put the jukebox's frequency onto a station button, and there you go.

 

[ProviaFan]

My CD/MP3 player has a tape adapter, which I use in the car with the tape player. It appears to provide decent sound quality (of course, this is a cheap Fix Or Repair Daily, with the original - crappy - speakers that came with it from the factory), and sound quality that would be better than a FM radio transmitter quality.

 

[everman]

It really depends on the quality of tape and tape player vs the radio (whether it will get interference).

 

[MajorC]

Does anyone have experience with satellite radio? How does this compare with good reception FM radio?