I have one of these and it doens't seem to interface well with my iPod and Bose. I don't know if it's a defective unit, but I bought it used and don't want to sell a defective unit so it sits in a closet.
I went to radio shack and bought a
1/4" Stereo Y-adapter,
Stereo 1/4" to 1/8" adapter, 3' 1/8" male/male cable (get length appropriate for your application), and a
volume control cable.
1. Plug the Y-adapter into the aircraft headphone output.
2. Plug your headset into one output of the Y-adapter and the 1/4" to 1/8" adapter into the other output.
3. Plug the male/male cable into the 1/4" to 1/8" adapter.
4. Plug volume control cable into the male/male cable.
5. Plug your ipod into the volume control cable.
6. Use the volume controler to mix the levels of your ipod and ATC/intercom. Volume all the way up will make the music loud and ATC virtually non-existant (bad!), while volume all the way down will make ATC loud and music very quiet.
7. Enjoy music while monitoring the ops frequency while at the gate only! This device is not for use in flight, as that would be unprofessional and possibly against company policy.
Another way of listening to music in the cockpit is piping it in on the jump seater's intercom, but that forces both pilots and the CVR to listen.
By the way, the Radio Shack version has functioned better than the Muse with my set-up.
