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If you've got an older car, every time you get in and want to listen to music can be frustrating: Your smartphone is ready with tons of choices but wants a Bluetooth connection. And you don't have that option! The standard solution is to get a cassette adapter, but they never work very well and are prone to breaking. Instead, Nulaxy has a line of Bluetooth FM transmitters that let you tune in to a specific FM frequency and receive your phone's audio as if it were an FM channel.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Nulaxy KM24 Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter and finds it works pretty darn well, though with some quirks...
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no Bluetooth in your car this might be
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your solution Dave Taylor here and I'm
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looking at FM transmitters for cars this
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is the new lack CK m24 bluetooth kar FM
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transmitter and you're wondering what is
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that what does that do and the answer is
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if you have a relatively modern car you
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have Bluetooth built in and that's great
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for phones for phone calls for music for
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audiobooks for streaming whatever it is
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you listen to you probably are using
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Bluetooth and it's working really well
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older cars don't have that option so my
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son's car for example is so old sorry
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but it's so old that it doesn't have any
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bluetooth that doesn't have aux-in
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doesn't have any way other than the
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cassette or the am/fm and the cassette
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he gets cassette adapters and they are
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as he would say pretty Genki they don't
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work very well and they don't work very
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long so enter something like this and
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the idea of this is that this is a
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Bluetooth receiver an FM transmitter so
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you set a specific frequency that you
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want to use on the FM dial you tune your
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car to that particular frequency and
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then you pair this via bluetooth with
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whatever device you want probably your
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smart phone and then your phone is going
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to communicate with this then this via
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FM is going to go and feed it into the
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audio system of your car so makes sense
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let's actually have a quick demo so what
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I'm doing here is I have a plugged into
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my car and I have it already tuned to
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the frequency I want and on the actual
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km 24 you can set any frequency that you
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want and here you can hear the music's
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pretty clean and clear and when a phone
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call comes in you can see the caller ID
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or at least the number shows up on the
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little tiny screen on the nalaxone --it
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so I would say it works pretty darn well
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though the FM receiver definitely is a
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little bit up and down some inner areas
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I've driven through there's a lot of
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interference other areas it's a lot
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better what I will say is I have learned
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that you want to turn the phone up to
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the maximum volume and then you want to
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use this to get this up to the maximum
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volume and then bring the volume to the
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level you want on the actual car because
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that seems to give you the strongest
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signal with the least interference so
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let's go and look through this real
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quick because it has a lot of really
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nice engineered features so the unit
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that goes into the aux or cigarette port
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actually has a spare USB charging plug
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so you don't have to end up with it an
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inability to charge your devices has an
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on/off switch because some aux plugs
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stay hot even when the cars off this
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will kill your battery so remember turn
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it off easy enough and then on the base
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unit itself it is a 1.4 inch screen and
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you saw it works pretty well it's not
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massive but it's certainly sufficient
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and then there are the channel and mode
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or input buttons and then forward and
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backward and then the circular button
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actually for example when a call comes
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in you can click it and you can answer
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the call so really nice and then there's
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volume on the sides on one side you have
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a microSD slot you can put up to a 32
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gig micro SD card full of music that's a
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lot of music and then on the other side
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you have USB 3 and an aux so if your car
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does have aux you could actually use
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bluetooth to this and then an aux wire
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into your car stereo system so you could
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sidestep the whole FM transmitter I
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think that would work better but this
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works surprisingly well so let's see the
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FM frequency is eighty seven point five
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megahertz to 108 point zero megahertz
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you'll want to have it be an exact match
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with the frequency you've toned
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tuned in in your car obviously it's
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running Bluetooth 3.0 so it's kind of an
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older version of bluetooth but in my
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testing it worked reasonably well it
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didn't have a problem because my phone
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was literally just inches away from it
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and caller ID works to some extent but
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enough that you'd actually know a calls
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coming in and you can answer the call on
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this I didn't find it worked very well I
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would say if you have a call coming in
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you might pick up your phone or better
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safer and probably more illegal is to
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have earbuds or something or pull over
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to make a phone call right so you're
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safe not much else to tell you here it's
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just it's a really simple solution for
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people with older vehicles that just
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don't have bluetooth and really want
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that feature set so before I tell you
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the price and I think you've been pretty
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surprised at how inexpensive it is but
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before I tell you the price let me ask
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if you can click on that subscribe
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button really appreciate it and if
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you're finding this useful
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thumbs up always appreciated so this is
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the new Lexie Bluetooth car FM
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transmitter aka km 24 they have a bunch
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of different models and this particular
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one is $27.99 at amazon.com if you don't
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have Bluetooth in your car and you
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really wish you did this is an
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impossible solution that's worth
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investigating Steve Taylor and I'll
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catch you in my next video
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