I'm in the market for a whole house FM transmitter as a dead-simple way to stream iTunes and Internet radio to three radios in my house. They're all on the same floor, separated by, at most, a bunch of walls.

Can anyone recommend one that isn't total garbage? I fear this is the type of consumer device that has flooded the market; such that even big name companies slap their name on someone else's crappy device.

Thanks for helping me avoid the scourge of disposable electronics.

I find even with a crappy $5 FM transmitter that in free space it can manage 30-40 foot and it will just about cover the whole of our house (30 foot x 30 foot).

I used to use one that came with a (Illegal then in the UK) cheapo set of wireless headphones from a rather doubtful stall in Leeds market: It worked better than a wireless network, expensive Sennheiser and Sony wireless headphones, or a video sender through our 2ft thick walls. It had the added advantage that the headphones worked perfectly well as a personal FM radio.

I have one of these on the boat:

http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/cgi-bin/commerce.exe?preadd=action&key=FM10C

Then all my boating buddies can listen to my empeg!! Outdoor range is easily 1/4 mile.

I like your taste in boating buddies!!!