I read the reviews but I had to try it for myself and No it really does not work. I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee and use a wired cassette. That works fine. The sound level from the TuneBase is alot lower and noisier. I tried tuning in dead stations and it does not matter. If you compare it to a wired connection you will be disappointed. If you have no comparison or just lowered expectations then you might like it. The base is very stable, that's a plus. But there's a cheaper model that does that.