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andrewducker) wrote2007-05-16 07:14 pm
andrewducker) wrote2007-05-16 07:14 pm
Calling all iPod owners
I have an iPod nano and want to purchase a device for listening to its music via speakers. Am I best off picking up a pair of cheap speakers, or is it worth getting a dock of some kind? Any recommendations?
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...something you've already got. In particular, most computers come bundled with speakers, and the speakers last longer than the computers do. We use old active computer speakers all over the house with our iPods. This is cheap. And if you bought expensive computers, your speakers might be very good. Or not.
...active speakers, and you can spend amounts from £5 to £500. Go listen to some.
...a dock. Docks are better than speakers because they are neater and look great, and charge your iPod when plugged into the mains. Some also have remote controls, which is good. However, they're fairly iPod specific (though they normally also have a minijack socket) and they can be expensive if you trade in your iPod for the Next Big Thing in a couple of years time. Again, go listen to some with your ears. What you want depends on the room size; for example, we have no room in our house large enough to make the iPod hifi a sensible choice.
If you want a portable solution then your choices are more constrained; all these products are very battery-hungry so you will want a rechargeable solution. We use a little set of nothing-special portable speakers for environments such as bathrooms and tents.
And today is a momentous day for us; we bought a brand new car a little over a year ago in the belief that we would quickly be able to retrofit it with an iPod dock. That proved wrong (it's more complicated because we wanted both an iPod dock with stalk control, and an auxilliary input so we could listen to live recordings of the weekend's festival while sitting in queues on the M1 every Sunday evening all summer approx) but Renault have finally launched a product that does the job and it's being fitted today. We hope. Possibly also with some extra power points because our car has one and we think that four in the front and four in the back would be a reasonable number to be going on with.
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