RSSApple Unveils iPod 'Hi-Fi' Boombox
By Nate Mook | Published February 28, 2006, 1:40 PM
Entering a market currently dominated by the likes of Bose, JBL and Altec Lansing, Apple on Tuesday unveiled its own portable boombox for the iPod dubbed Hi-Fi. In his keynote address, company CEO Steve Jobs emphasized the need for quality when listening to audio in the home.
Beneath its black grille, the iPod Hi-Fi features two 80mm mid-range drivers in sealed acoustic suspension, and a 130mm dual voice coil subwoofer in the center. "We get great bass out of this thing and it doesn't distort when you crank it up," boasted Jobs. The $349 USD device includes connectors for all iPod models along with an Apple remote, and can run plugged-in or on 6 D batteries.
Where's the high frequency response? I'm sure this thing sounds fine for club music, but with no dedicated HF drivers, acoustic and classical is going to sound pretty hollow.
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|This one's a dud.
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|$349 for speakers?!
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|Lot of judgement being passed for something none of you have even heard yet. Audio ain't about the looks - although an iPod clearly is. :P
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|This would really benefit from a LCD panel with visualizations, meta tags, etc. I understand simplicity, but for the love of God, if this is just a speaker that hooks up to an iPod, then it really doesn't offer too much more than any other speaker system.
Neat, but not really up to my expectations of Apple.
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|BOOM ! BOOM !
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|It's an iPod that's not an iPod (given the way Apple currently has it categorized in the main iPod website navigation.)
http://www.apple.com/ipod/ipod.html
BTW, I'm surprised BetaNews missed the new Leather Cases! ;-)
http://store.apple.com/1...oductLearnMore=MA398G/A
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|When I saw that boombox, I got really excited. I thought that they were going to reveal iTime--a time travel device. I figured that they had traveled back to the eighties and brought this relic back as proof.
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|Snap! That was funny.
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|I actually don't think it looks *that* bad. Yeah, it's not going to win any design awards, but....
Who knows, maybe it appeals to the Mac user in me. (Ate another one...gotta kick that habit one of these days)
The price follows Apple's pricing structure. It's not for the poor. :)
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|It looks fine to me too, and contrary to the person above: This would NOT look good on shag carpet!
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|Depends on the color. It'd look GREAT on burnt-orange shag.
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|We have burnt-orange shag, but the sun turned it off-white. Trust me, it wouldn't look good in this house. :P
Edit: I guess it all depends on the feel of your home. My house has a lot of black stuff in it - black monitor, black TV, black [whatever]. The kitchen is very white, so it might go good there, but I can see this clashing with all the dark/unsmooth/wooden things in my living room.
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|yawn... expect this to go the route of the Apple Newton.
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|LAME
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|My opinion: its ugly! and overpriced!
Although if it sounds really good... REALLY good. It could be worth it if someone were to have money to burn on stuff like that.
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