iPod Hifi

Prpixel - please elaborate your comment on "looks like Bose designed it". Did you mean from the way it looks, or the cutaway of the internals, or the driver choices, etc..?
Thanks,
Art
ps: I wonder if it's in stores now.

it's crap but will compete with bose.

iPod HiFi. Now that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one.

Don't get me wrong the iPods/portable players have a place in this world but, not in tru HiFi.

Art,

From the cutaway of the internals and driver choice.

I listened to one at the Apple store in Burlingame yesterday. Sounds about what you would expect for the money. To me it sounded very forward and a shade bright. No immense soundstage or pinpoint imaging coming from this little speaker. It started to distort at moderate listening levels.

The conditions were less than ideal. It was a crowded and noisy store and I couldn't get more than 6 ft away from the speaker due to the furniture. The Bose soundock was not positioned in a spot where I could easily make A/B compairisons. I have one of those and enjoy it.