iPod Hi-Fi ‘Boombox’!
Published February 28th, 2006 in Apple, Technology
This is another new ‘fun’ product. Apple’s new iPod hi-fi speaker set starts at $349 (£249) and, according to Engadget, sounds pretty damn good. The speaker has a universal dock at the top so you can slide in your iPod, normal and shuffle too. You can remove the cover from the front to make it look cooler. It also has an optical/analog input so you can use it as your speaker for whatever system you want. It also has an Apple Remote so you can control your Hi-Fi from the other side of the room.
The iPod nano and the iPod with video will display a new Speakers menu for the iPod Hi-Fi. The menu will let you control tone (with settings like normal, treble boost, and bass boost), display large album art on the iPod while the Hi-Fi is playing, and set the iPod backlight to remain on so you can see the album art. Sorry, but apparently there won’t be a Speakers menu or tone control for older iPods. [TUAW]
The Hi-Fi is also ‘portable’. You can run it from 6 ‘D-sized’ batteries and it should go on for a few hours, but looking at the size of the thing (17″ x 6.6″ x 6.9″) it is hardly what you could carry on holiday. Seems like a good option, if you’re willing to spend the money and don’t mind its size and/or appearance (not that it looks bad).
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Looks blinking heavy - too heavy to carry. And all that white, featureless plastic somehow makes it look cheap.
I’m going to save my money for when the new iPod video with touchscreen comes out.
My iPod blog: http://www.ipod.org.uk