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will this cord solve all your iphone
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audio connectivity hassles let's find
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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this this is the you know II I don't
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know I think that's how you pronounce it
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car aux cord and it's a pretty cool idea
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it's really simple all right it's cord
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stretches out to be pretty darn long but
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more importantly it has a little adapter
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on here and then on the other end
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it's an aux 3.5 millimeter and a
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lightning connector that is really cool
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that's really super cool for cars so I
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have my JBL speaker with aux-in so let's
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go ahead and let's plug it in and give
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it a quick test so the nice thing about
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this speaker is that it automatically
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selects the input so we'll start with
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the easy one so this is my iPad and I
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have a little movie trailer going on so
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I'm just gonna do aux to aux that should
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be the easiest of them right so we're
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just gonna go here and I don't know what
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this is for it's an ad of some sort it's
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a premiere of the series on Showtime but
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the important thing is is you can tell
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that it's a straight aux cord it's
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working just fine let's just stop here
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cuz the real interesting part is when we
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get to my iPhone 10 because my iPhone
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doesn't have an aux out it doesn't have
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a headphone jack kind of a pain right
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you end up having to use bluetooth for
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everything or using the little Apple
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adapter which is so fragile that every
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time I use it I'm amazed it's still
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enter lightning to aux so I'm gonna plug
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this in and I found that sometimes it
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takes a couple of seconds for the phone
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to notice that it's an audio out device
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but let's find out what happens
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all right well we have music coming out
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of our speaker from a wire that I
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plugged into my lightning port Wow
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glad I have a case on that how easy is
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so it works and that really it's that's
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kind of the whole stick here right so
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it's a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and a
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lightning connector it has a coiled end
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which I really like because it stretches
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way out but it actually can stay nice
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and compact perfect for your car
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actually and has a ninety degree a UX
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plug on this end which I don't know I
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guess it could work either way but it
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probably is a nice feature and it has
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interesting lis in here apparently
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there's actually a built in codec chip
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which actually helps it keep the audio
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fidelity even as it's using these both
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both these connectors you don't want to
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do both at the same time because that
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might cause the chip to get very
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confused don't try that who knows what
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will happen right and one more thing
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they've done nicely is that inside the
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wire there's an aluminum shell they've
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put around the base of the plugs which
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supposedly is gonna give them longer
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life the whole thing is a pretty nice
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thick cord so I feel like it is gonna
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last a good long while and that's it
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this is a super simple solution to a
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tricky problem and if you have an iPhone
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and you don't a Bluetooth in your car
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you know what a hassle it is to be able
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to get the audio to work or of course if
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you have something like an iPad but most
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iPads I think pretty much all the iPads
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have aux out it's just these darn phones
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and who knows what the new phones are
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gonna be like right Apple is moving away
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from aux Jack's so maybe the next
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generation of Mac books will also not
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have any audio out enter this until we
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end up needing to use a version of this
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that has USB C but that's another story
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for this this is the you know e u n o OE
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kar aux cord and you can pick one up at
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Amazon but pay before I tell you the
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price let me just ask if you can click
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on subscribe go ahead and leave a
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comment too if you do have a phone that
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doesn't have an audio out how
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you got you know working with it how do
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you have it plugged into your car I'm
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super curious how people solve that
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problem or if people just ignore it and
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they literally listen off the speaker of
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their phone while they're driving not a
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great solution but a functional solution
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anyway let's get back to this so this is
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the you know a car aux cord you can pick
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it up at amazon.com for $14.99 so I say
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check it out if you have this problem
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this it could be a really simple and
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elegant solution this is Dave Taylor and
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I'll catch you in minutes
