Belkin tunecast 2 fm transmit

will the work with a creative zen touch?if not what will it work with?

Most newer wireless headphones are in the 900MHz or 2.4GHz range. I believe there are some higher than that as well. Anyway. Yes there is occasional static and frequency stomping by more powerful broadcasts but of any of the FM transmitters I would have to recommend the TuneCast II or similar. It is one of the only ones I know of that use the full FM spectrum and not just 2 or 3 predefiined frequencies like 88.3, 88.5 and 88.9 or whatever.
All I did was try to find the weakest FM stations allong my normal dri've and then programmed the TC II's presets for those stations. Made a preset for each on my radio and just switch as I dri've.
I would have used a Tape adapter but that's another wire hanging in my way plus the FM is usable in more situations especially when I get in a car etc. that has only a CD player. The FM modulator would have worked but the radio is a pain to accss in a '96 Sable.

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I personally don't think you'll find a GOOD transmitter for any price in the USA & Canada, due to FCC regulations. They just don't want you to have too much transmitting power so that you step on commercial broadcasts.
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<FONT color=#0033ff>Serial and model numbers of portable MP3 players can be located either on the external casing or inside the battery compartment there is a replaceable battery.
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VERY DISSAPOINTED at the lack of accessori

Very, very, very dissapointed at the complete lack of accessories for the Creative line. I own a creative micro photo 8 gb which I purchased two days ago. I started out with the Sleek photo, but was very dissapointed in the sound quality. I used 4 different set's of headphones, and they all sounded like garbage. I exchanged it for the creative zen microphoto, and what a world of difference in sound quality, using those same headphones I had used before.
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JK23 no offense, but I am not lugging around a huge set of speakers that requires AC Power. What I am referring too is a powered speaker system that has a built in dock. One simple piece of equipment that I can stick in a suit case that requires no AC power, but runs on batteries. Yeah I know about the travel speakers and I also could go out and buy a boombox that has an aux-input. But guess what JK, if I had an iPod I wouldn't have to do either of those because there are dozens of companies that make power speakers systems with a built in dock. Creative made a nice one for the Zen Micro, but you'd think with the ZV:M being their Cadillac they would have been smart enough to realize they needed to make one for it.
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