The Scosche iPBCK Bluetooth adapter — digital wireless for your car.

Blue-who?

Convenience or quality? Quality or convenience? When it comes to connecting an iPod® to your car stereo, there have always been trade-offs: Should you go for a better sounding hard-wired connection, or a wireless option that sacrifices some of that audio performance?

Fortunately, thanks to Bluetooth™, the confusion may finally be over.

Bluetooth wireless technology made its debut in the late 1990s as a way to connect a wide variety of portable devices over a low-cost, small-area wireless network. Since then, it's cropped up in everything from bookshelf speakers to cell phones — anything that can benefit from a digital, static-free, wireless connection — and is even making inroads in the world of car audio. Several automakers (including Acura, BMW, and others) included Bluetooth support as standard factory equipment in 2005, and more are expected to to offer the feature next year.

No matter what you're driving, you can now add the crystal-clear sound and wireless convenience of Bluetooth to any mobile audio system (provided you have a brand-name stereo with a set of RCA inputs or a factory radio with an auxiliary input adapter — call a Sales Advisor for more information) with Scosche's new iPBCK Bluetooth connection adapter. Essentially a wireless auxiliary input, the iPBCK allows you to listen to your iPod through your car stereo, sans wires, without sacrificing anything in the way of sound quality.

Sounds cool, right? It is, but there's more to this wonder of technology than just zeros and ones. CrutchfieldAdvisor recently took the iPBCK Bluetooth adapter out for a spin to see just what wireless digital means for car audio.