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FM Signal Amplifier

The amplifier did not work in my car to magnify the signal. It was a waste of a purchase and the a waste yo install the amo i my car

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Superb

easy to use, easy instructions and a super fast shipping and delivery to Puerto Rico!

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FM Signal Amplifier

Replaced factory radio and couldn't get local radio station. Installed this signal amplifier and no difference

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Crutchfield response on 12/24/2024

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FM Signal Amplifier

It works as it should

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Still works great now (Old school technology)

Easy to install and actually added several new stations that I wasn't getting before after installing a shorter antenna on my Miata. Great price. Had one of these in my car back in the late 70's. Work great then. Surprised to find they still make.

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FM Signal Amplifier

It increased my signal 100 percent. Very happy with it

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FM Signal Amplifier

In every FM channel I tried, it either gave no benefit or in a few cases actually made it worse. On AM, it did boost the signal, or at least the channel came in louder, but with more added noise too

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Crutchfield response on 10/31/2023

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FM Signal Amplifier

Does not help Signal at all just more static

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Crutchfield response on 7/25/2023

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FM Signal Amplifier

Useless. Deserves zero stars. Makes no difference if it is on or off. Signal is unchanged. I live in a rural area. The station I want to listen to picks up with some static most of the time. I have made many purchases from Crutchfield. This is the only one that is a complete waste of time and money.

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Crutchfield response on 5/22/2023

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FM Signal Amplifier

excellent

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FM Signal Amplifier

Works great

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FM Signal Amplifier

It improved reception only slighty.

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Don't waste your money on this

Did not help. Don't waste your money. Plus Crutchfield charges you a $12 label fee for returns. Not cool dudes.

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bakersfield

It's a static button,I have a JVC FROM Crutchfield,all this gadget did was make static,even on the far stations,I took it off my unit.

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Crutchfield response on 6/14/2022

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FM Signal Amplifier

Helped signal a lot

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FM Signal booster was a Flop.

I have a 2010 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner that has a problem getting FM Radio stations 150 miles away. I ordered a Universal FM Signal amplifier . After it was installed I got worse radio reception than I did before the FM Signal amplifier was installed.

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Crutchfield response on 1/19/2022

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FM Signal Amplifier

IT does what it claims ,and all I have is a stubby att.

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Fm amplifiers

The fm amplifiers work great i ?? the product thanks

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FM Signal Amplifier

no noticeable difference

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Crutchfield response on 5/10/2021

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Sounds for far away

I love this it brings in fm station great and I get a much better sound quality

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Amplifier

It works well on fm stations,easy to install,will need 12 volts power. Comes with installation guide.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Took a chance antenna booster would improve reception. It didn't work. Everything is same as it was before.

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Crutchfield response on 9/22/2020

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FM Signal Amplifier

didn't help at all.Actually made the reception worse when on.

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Crutchfield response on 9/2/2020

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FM Signal Amplifier

Tried using this product did a bench test before installed this unit had a weak FM station that I normally listen to tried to see if this unit boast the signal when I turned on the unit for the boost the station came in worst then with out the unit tried several time with the same results. didn't install the unit.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Made absolutely no difference in my reception. I live in town not the country, so I wasn't trying to pull signal into a rural setting. It just doesn't work. Crutchfield was EXCELLENT in taking care of my return and refund though. So not a big deal that it didn't work for me. oh well.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Part was shipped when promised and support member did a really great job getting it right the first time

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FM Signal Amplifier

Didn't improve signal and amplified the static

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Crutchfield response on 1/27/2020

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FM Signal Amplifier

It worked great would recommend crutchfield to all.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Did not see any difference with or with out the booster hooked up.

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Crutchfield response on 11/18/2019

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Radio disfuntional

I installed the product and had no relief of all the static reception I have with the radio so I'm returning it for a different radio and hope that will help with the reception problem

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FM Signal Amplifier

Works very well. Using it to help with a 8" antenna (1999 Mustang convertible for better looks) and it brings in all of the weak stations that I had lost with the antenna swap. Only wish it had a pilot light to know when it is powered on.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Was easy to install and actually worked. Stations I could not get now come in and stations I did get now come in clearer.

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FM Signal Amplifier

This booster actually works. I had read about boosters and was somewhat skeptical when I purchased this unit. To my happy surprise, the weak FM station are now comin in strong!. A word of caution: carefully look at your setup. At first I only order one converter cable when i should have ordered two!! Folks at Crutchfield were very helpful and got the other cable to me quickly. Great company. Great service.

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FM Signal Amplifier

This works great. I will buy another for second car. Takes some skill to install in dash.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Works very well

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FM Signal Amplifier

Seems to help FM quite a bit but if you're looking for AM gains I'm not real sure yet

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FM Signal Amplifier

Stations are better with out it,makes good channels go out

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Crutchfield response on 6/27/2017

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WORKS FINE

IT WORKS AS ADVERTISED. PLENTY OF MOUNTING OPTIONS.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Good product

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FM Signal Amplifier

Pushed the button and the guts pushed out the back

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FM signal amp

It could be the area I'm in, but I haven't found a signal amp which does anything, including this one. Maybe it works if you're closer or farther from stations.

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Crutchfield response on 7/26/2016

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Poor

Poor design, Button gets hung up inside. First time I tried to push the button the inside pusshed through the back side. Did not improve reception either.

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Antenna booster

Awesome worked perfect,great doing business with you guys

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Not bad

The product is OK. Did not notice much of a difference, but it could be my antenna that is giving the problem. Product is also a little big.

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Function quality to be desired

Poor function, pressing the button causing the button to get hung up inside the bezel that comes with the unit. Poor bezel button design and function.

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nice unit

Does help receive stations I just leave the unit on all the time and radio on distant and I get stations about 20 % more than without the unit. I have this unit connected to the Jensen vx 6020 which was reviewed as not getting very good reception and this units improves it about 20% even in heavy timber area where I live.

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Pretty good

It works pretty well, not a miracle fix, but definitely improved my signal reception.

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Bad Product

This product did Nothing for reception!!

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FM Signal Amplifier

We bought this amp to increase the raido in a car for a friend...but we got it hooked up and really didn't see a big sound change...so now I'm going to try it in my truck to see if it will boast the sound...we were dissapointed that it didn't do what we hoped but willing to try it again before returning it...

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small effect

Easy install. Button quality is low. Minor improvement in signal

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FM Signal Amplifier

Easy hookup install amplifies signal mount construction not good

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fm signal amplifier

the product does what it's supposed to but the quality is poor.

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Works but quality lacking

After installing the product I can now pick up 31 stations instead of 14. So the product works, I was a little disappointed with the quality of the switch though. It's a little hard to actually get the button to press on and off.

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Doesn't Work

Didn't work at all. No difference in signal strength.

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works well

I hooked it up in my 98 eclipse and it worked better than I expected. Actually when I had it of but still hooked up it seem to work alot better.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Boost the FM signal to a useable level.

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Used for testing a bad FM tuner head

I had purchased a Kenwood KDC-BT955HD in March 2013. End of April 2014 FM tuner section picked up less stations (AM was OK and I put an older head which FM HD worked OK). (Note I"m an RF broadcast engineer ) EX: I live 15 miles from an WCVE transmitter and usually get instant HD digital lock. I did a road test and got a HD Digital lock 2.5 miles from the transmitter. I was trying to troubleshoot if problem was the front end of the tuner or the AGC. Amp overloaded the front end to the point I couldn't pick up even the local stations. So I sent the Head to Kenwood for repairs. This test only validated my assumption to Kenwood that I was not just an average Joe in troubleshooting the problem.

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Fm signal amplifier and adapters

Live in the mountains of Colorado. Our radio station reception is horrible. You can see the tower and lose the station. Trying to pick up some station better. Lose them going into certain neighborhoods for work. Now the local stations overpower the one further away. Need to remove and go back to stock. Listening to iheart radio on my iPhone instead

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FM Signal Amplifier

I bought this because my HD radio fades in some areas of the valley. It does help, but not as much as I had hoped.

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Not Impressed

Not what I was expecting. I was trying to reduce dropouts I get with some of the weaker HD signals. Improvement is marginal at best. If I paid full price out of pocket, I'd have been a lot more disappointed. Fortunately I had a Crutchfield gift card to cover the majority of this purchase.

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Don't buy

Hooked it up and saw no change. The hassle and cost of shipping it back was more than the effort, so its in a box in my garage with other useless electronics.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Works as advertised as long as one follows instructions.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Made no difference in reception at all

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Crutchfield response on 6/17/2013

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Workes very well

I installed this antenna booster in my daughter's car, she already has an aftermarket CD/USB deck but was having trouble receiving weaker FM signals. She lives up in the foothills of the Appalachians and sometimes FM reception can be poor when driving. At first I did not know whether the booster would really help or not, but my daughter tells me her FM radio reception is a lot better and seems to be stronger now. I would say try the booster if you are having similar reception problems, it may help.

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I would not reccomend this signal booster. not only does it fall apart it does not boost the signal at all....

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FM Signal Amplifier

Barely boosted the signal and the power button on all 4 I purchased . It was getting stuck.Poorly constructed .

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FM Signal Amplifier

I am using your products in a very remote mountain location. This RF amplifier helps me to obtain good quality signal reception to more stations than I could otherwise. Very good product for the use that I am implementing it for

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FM Signal Amplifier

I would have rated this a 0 but they don't give you that option. Bought an aftermarket radio with sub-par FM radio signal. Crutchfield sent this out to me to try to amplify the signal. IT MADE THINGS WORSE! I didn't do a hard install (thankfully!) because I wanted to see how well it worked first. Plugged in and turned on, fm quality on stations near by did not increase, only the sound level increased. Stations further away that I used to be able to hear in my original radio come in now with lots of static on the aftermarket radio; once the amplifier is turned on they go away completely! But at least I can hear the static loud and clear!!

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Save Your Money

After an hour's worth of work installing the unit, found out it made absolutely NO appreciable DIFFERENCE in increasing FM reception. In an area with only a half dozen FM stations, there was no improvement. With the booster 'off', when signal strength begins to fade, switching the booster 'on' only increases the static level. The construction quality is also to be questioned: On receipt the front panel decal was applied upside down, not allowing the on/off to shine through and, the on/off switch mechanism sticks badly impairing turning the unit on or off ... which is off little consequence now since I leave it off !! I would take it out but another hour underneath the dash is not worth the $15 effort. The laws of radio wave propogation cannot be enhanced with this booster - - Save your money and hope that you'll soon be driving into any area with better 'natural' reception!

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HD reception

I have installed a DUAL HD car radio in my off-the-grid home. It locks into the HD signal on three of the four FM stations of interest just fine. The forth station switches in and out of HD, holding pretty steady under ideal atmospheric conditions or when one stands in just the right place relative to our in-house antenna. I installed one of these amplifiers to get a slightly stronger signal (all I need). In "turned off" (bypass mode) there seemed to be a slight degradation in reception, turned "on" there was no improvement. It didn't work for me.

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FM Signal Amplifier

This was a complete waste of money. I hooked up power plugged the car antenna into it and then the boosters antenna into the radio. Turned it on and FM stations came in worse with more static. Unplugged it put the car antenna directly into the radio and the reception was much clearer. Forget AM reception because with it on not one AM station could be heard. Turn it off and reception returned. So it's a complete waste on money in my opinion.

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FM Signal Amplifier

It didnt help with my radio reception in my car at all!

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FM Signal Amplifier

I tried this product and all I heard was noise when I powered it up. The idea seems good, but the design is poor.

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Not a good design

I would have liked to rate this unit a ZERO. I ordered the unit (I won't call it a signal booster/amplifier) on 9-20-2007. I began formally studying radio/electronics in 1975. I earned a college degree in electronics and have held the highest class FCC issued Amateur Radio license for over 10 years. And have been licensed for about 25 years. I have used some very good signal amplifier/boosters, But this is NOT one of them! I live in a quiet rural area 10 miles outside Bloomington, IN. I conducted multiple tests with this unit. On hilltops and in valleys with many different radio stations, with the cars engine running and with the cars engine off, on AM and FM bands. No detectable difference of any kind switching the unit on/off on FM. On the AM broadcast band I tuned in a station with the signal amplifier/booster off, then I turned the signal amplifier/booster on; at that point I totally lost the AM station and all I had was NOISE !

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Great product- not a miracle cure

This is a very good product. I agree with those who say that this is not a miracle cure for bad reception and dont expect to be picking up stations from a few states away. This is simply way to bring up the power of a few weak stations. Since you can turn it on and off, it wont degrade your signal once you install it which was a deciding factor for my purchase. Works great and sounds great. I would recommend this product to anyone. Really nicely designed with a good looking bezel. Great for any cars interior.

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Great Product When used and reviewed correctly

This product is a very simple signal amplifier, not a signal processor. It amplifies the incoming signal by 15Db, it does not reduce extra noise, or cut out static, or improve signal quality, only signal strength. This is a great product if you know what it really is and don't believe that it is a "magic box" that will solve all your static problems.

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Works Exceptionally well with a static filter inline with it

Just cruising through the site, I stumbled on a product I put in my Fiance's Mustang a few years back. We live in the High Desert of Southern California so we definately have lots of flat open space. I used the amplifier with a static filter and the sound was absolutely amazing, at the time it was the best radio sound I have ever heard. Then I could only listen to CD's because I hated radio quality. Now I can actually listen to Am/Fm in the Mustang. It came close to cd quality on many stations. With the static filter and amplifier, the combo could not be beat.

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FM Signal Amplifier

Like the other reviews, this thing is garbage! It just added more static & the signal didn't improve at all. If your make of vehicle requires antenna cable adapters for installation on your vehicle, then you will spend more on them than the item itself.

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FM Signal Amplifier

it doesn't work just makes the static come in better

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This item was garbage for me. It boosted the signal alright. Right along with the static I was getting. Maybe it was cause of the radio I don't know, but it was useless to me.

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