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monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2253
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 1:37 pm: | 
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Jobs: 40% of all autos sold this year in US will have iPod connectivity as an option.
Now's time to add In the Home. People like to use iPods with groups inside. Problem with these products - stereo products - is that they don't offer home stereo quality.
What is home stereo quality. Audiophiles need a large sound stage. you can hear the performers sounding larger than the speakers. Precise imaging and separation. Each instrument can be heard separately. Third thing is wide frequency range. You want great bass, also be able to hear the highest frequencies. You also want room-filling power without distortion.
There are some higher-end products that do better than others - outside of the iPod market. We're introducing one today that has some of the attributes of home stereo quality and iPod speakers today.
iPod Hi-Fi
Home stereo. Reinvented.
Looks like a center channel speaker with iPod dock on top.
Comes with inserts for every iPod. Two buttons - volume control.
Pull black grille off of white box to reveal three speaker drivers.
Integrated power supply - no brick.
Power it off of six D-size batteries if you want. "Several hours outside."
Two 80mm mid-range drivers in sealed acoustic suspension.
In center is 130mm dual voice coil woofer, ported bass reflex design.
Great bass, doesn't distort when cranked up.
Universal Dock connector and integrated handles.
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monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 2254
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 1:39 pm: |
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IPod integration: there's a software update for iPods that puts a speaker menu item in the main menu.
Tone control, backlight always on or off, large album art on or off.
Screen can go black and just show album art.
Controlled with the Apple Remote.
Price: $349 - Goes on sale today.
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monster
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Post Number: 2255
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 1:44 pm: |
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MacCentral: Calling the new iPod accessory "Home stereo. Reinvented," Jobs explained that iPod Hi-Fi "has some of the attributes of iPod products today, but with home stereo quality."
It's a three-driver system in one unit featuring an iPod dock on top. An auxiliary input rests in the back of the iPod Hi-Fi if you have an iPod shuffle. The device also ships with inserts designed to accommodate virtually all of Apple's dockable iPod models.
Built-in handles let you tote the system around -- it's white and rectangular, and features a black grille on the front of the speakers. The power supply itself is integrated, so there's no bulky external brick feeding juice to the unit. And it can run on batteries -- six D cells, in fact.
The speaker system includes two 80 millimeter (mm) mid-range drivers with a sealed acoustic suspension and a 130mm dual voice coil woofer featuring a ported bass reflex design, inside a sealed resin enclosure.
"We get great bass out of this thing and it doesn't distort when you crank it up," said Jobs.
Apple has updated the iPod's software to accommodate the new speaker system -- a new software update will add a "Speaker" menu to the iPod's interface, allowing users to adjust tone control, control the backlight and turn on large album art.
What's more, the iPod Hi-Fi can be controlled with the Apple Remote. It can also accept input through an auxiliary jack and SPDIF optical audio input.
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