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We got it because out toyota's cd player died and only got the tape decker left; we needed something to hook up ipod to hear music. pros: it does what it is supposed to do. Easy to work and good volume without having to play with it as other models reviews mention. cons: you can hear a pretty loud hissing noise that is the cassette playing. You need to put music pretty loud to mask noice but beware not to put it too loud from ipod as we did this and almost blew our speakers (we heard pretty loud boom noices and did not know what it was-sounded like something exploded- until we figured it was speakers... :-( ). It does not charge the ipod battery so make sure you have a lot of batttery if you inted to use it for long trips.