Apple iPod Hi-Fi Home Stereo
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Let your ears be the judge. From pumping bass to bright treble, iPod Hi-Fi delivers natural, room-filling sound. Close your eyes and you’d think you were listening to an amazing component system. Open them and you realize all that great sound is coming from a relatively small and portable box. Use it at home or at a picnic because iPod HiFi works either from household AC current or batteries. iPod Hi-Fi combines power and volume with acoustic clarity to produce clean, clear sound with very little distortion, even at high volume.
Apple designed it to be the ultimate in iPod friendliness. The dock has adapters to fit all dockable iPods. Then there’s a mini plug for non-dockable models such as the shuffle. Use the included Apple Remote to control music playback from anywhere in a room. Ultimately, like all iPods, there’s are high levels of integrity and quality that reach out to people of all tastes and backgrounds. HiFi is a state of outstanding sound that you can listen and share. iPod represents easy use and world-class performance. Put them together and you’ve transcended to a new reality. And it’s portable so you can take it with you.
Features
- Large soundstage: brings audio tracks to life with convincing, enveloping sound
- Precise imaging and separation: every instrument or voice–even in complex, polyphonic pieces–sounds clear, discrete, and uncrowded
- Wide frequency range: accurately reproduces the lowest cello notes and the highest piccolo notes
- Seamless iPod integration, Apple Remote, AC and DC modes, analog/digital input, and compact footprint
- Compatible with all iPod models
Suggested Price
$349.99
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I’m so glad I spent the extra money and went with the ipod home stereo. It sounds amazing and it really can kick out the sound. It’s a bit heavy but i’m not going to really carry it around. It is perfect for the home. It’s nice that it has a battery option, but I wont be using it. Highly recommended.
This is the best system out there for anybody with a serious music collection. I am a DJ, so i have an ear for great sound systems. I have an iPod filled with house and techno. I wanted a system that would give me the loud feel that you get in a club. With this type of music, the Hi-Fi is incredible. My entire apartment shakes and rattles when play the Hi-Fi. Yeah, it may be expensive, but with the amount of music that I have on my iPod, it was a necessary investment.
To start, I consider myself a very discerning customers in recent years. I research and research and research before I purchase a high-ticket item (and sometimes I research so much that I never buy anything).
Music runs my life, and though I wouldn’t call myself an audiophile, I’m close. I thoroughly tested every iPod speaker system I could find: the Bose, Altec Lansing, Klipsch, XtremeMac Tango, JBL, etc. (I didn’t get to test the Harmon Kardon portable unit, but I didn’t have to).
Of all the agonizing hours I blasted music from these units, hands down, no question, no doubt, the Apple Hifi was the best. The XtremeMac Tango has very similar sound quality at mid-level volume, as did the Bose, but at high volumes none stood up to the Hifi. The Hifi has a certain “wow” factor from the very beginning thanks to such full-bodied sounds coming from such a small box (small when juxtaposed with a 5.1 home stereo system). I found the Hifi to have a richer sound quality than any other unit I stumbled across.
It really all came down to the Tango or the Hifi, and portability became the deciding factor. If you don’t leave your house you might consider the Tango and save some cash. [Note: from my tests with the Tango, I was unable to replicate the bass vibration issues addressed by other reviews. The problem may have been solved in newer units.]
PROS: Unbelievably beautiful clarity, good bass, little distortion at high volumes, minimalist looks, portability!, its an Apple product, removable speaker grill, good remote range, plays LOUD (really loud people)
CONS: Weight (17 pounds), price, so pretty you won’t want to bring it outside
CONCLUSION: For you audiophiles and wannabe audiophiles, this is probably your best bet. If cost is an issue check out the XtremeMac Tango or the Altec Lansing and DO NOT listen to the Bose or the Hifi…seriously.
You will not be disappointed with the Apple Hifi.
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I bought this speaker before a long travelling vacation, and it works great. The sound is much better than any portable device I’ve seen. Only regret has to do with the batteries - we bought rechargables (Rayovac Nickel Metal Hydride), and they only last about 4 hours, which means that you need several sets. It would have been great to have a built-in battery and better life, or at least a built-in battery charger so there wasn’t so much changing of batteries. Also, the remote’s usefulness is limited to volume, play/pause, and skip forward/back - no menu functions. We have the newest IPOD (v. 5.5, 80G), and I expected that the menu button on the remote would have some function, but it does not. All in all, I’d buy it again.