Best Choice for Docking Station for an IPOD

Bose, expensive for what it is? Really?! Arrrgggghhhh!!!!!
Cello, I just recommended an Onkyo CS 210 shelf system to a friend for use with his iPOD. $170 shipping included and you are in.

Consider replacing the stock speakers and speaker cable with Paradigm Atoms or equivalent, some decent wire and you are well on your way. Then a Signal Cable mini-plug to RCA termination and look out.

BTW, I quizzed him as to the sound quality of the built-in CD player vs the iPOD and he admitted the CD player was superior. Go figure.

Onkyo CS 210 $170 shipped
Paradigms 180
Signal Cable connector 42 shipped
cheap speaker cable 20

roughly $412 and you are there.

Good luck.

You can get a pair of good multimedia speakers (amp built in) and a Signal Cable connector (I use their silver one) and call it a day. OK, this solution is not that portable, but it will sound a buttload better'n'Bose. The speakers I'd recommend are the Swan M200's which have been reduced by their distributor to $179.00 - which is a downright bargain for what you get. You can order them directly from NewEgg here

Marco

I'll go with Marco's recommendation, unless your daughters need to take it to the beach or something.

Even better, you can use the line level out into a state of the art DAC, tube amps and speakers gleaned from other threads in Audiogon.

Marco - wow - that is really cheap?! Any idea how they would compare to the old Monsoon planar computer set up that was raved about in the audiophile press. For the office, they are fun, but after not very long are very fatiguing.