The Griffin iTrip SE was pretty much unus­able. The trans­mis­sion is incred­ibly quiet — so quiet, that even at high volumes, you still struggle to hear it. To add to insult, it turns itself off every so often due to “power sav­ing func­tion­al­ity”. If it’s a European model, things are made dif­fi­cult still with a fea­ture to deter pir­ate radio sta­tions by select­ing a ran­dom fre­quency every time the device is turned on. Sadly, it makes life worse for the major­ity that use it for good and I’d hardly say it deters pir­ate radio sta­tions (although why use it if it only has a weak sig­nal anyway?).

There can be good things said about the wide com­pat­ib­il­ity of iPods that it can con­nect to and the abil­ity to still use the head­phone jack whilst trans­mit­ting is an added bonus. How­ever, if you appre­ci­ate music (and by that, I mean listen), you should avoid it completely.