frankthetank966
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Does anybody have any of these speakers? They look really nice and seem as if they have very good sound and are decent prices. Can somebody help me out?
Thanks for that great info! Sounds like it improves on the iH5.groo90266 said:I'm a new user and can't post the link to the page I wrote my comments on (because it's a hyperlink), so I apologize for the wasted bits and here's a cut-and-paste:
Just got an i177 (the clock radio with remote). Sound quality is good to my untrained ears; much better than the powered speakers on my computer, better than my previous clock radio.
The Good:
o Sleep timer decreases volume gradually then shuts off the iPod!
o Remote goes to next/previous track, play/pause, controls volume, switches to radio bands, tunes the radio and snoozes the alarm.
o Comes with 5 adapters for the various iPod models and a USB for the Shuttle
o “Sleep” volume is independent of waking volume
o Switching to either radio band pauses the iPod
o Uses backup batteries (2xAA) for power outages
o Loud frickin’ beeper (though if you want to buy an iPod clock radio in order to wake to a beeper, maybe you’re looking at the wrong product)
The Indifferent:
o Dual alarms
o Dimmer has 3 settings (in addition to “off")
o Date displayed
The Irritating:
o Military time; I can’t find the option for AM/PM.
o No radio presets; just the last AM and last FM station.
The Weird and Not Very Good:
o AM tuning doesn’t tune to exact frequencies; it seems to go in 9 kHz steps
Those last issues make me think that perhaps I got a unit designed for the European market (or perhaps the dev team is all ex-military non-AM-radio listeners). I’ve sent iLuv e-mail about these.
Frankly, it looks like a good value to me; looks like a solid design; fairly good bass response, big numerals, nice integration with iPod for listening and waking. I wonder if it’s okay that the iPod is connected to the charger all night… (That’ll be for long-term testing).
One last thing: their e-commerce system is weird—it tags your order with the description of the product, not the model number. This would be okay if they didn’t use the same description for four different products, so I had to e-mail them to tell them the model number that I’d intended to purchase.
Well, the Creature II's will sound better, but they don't dock and charge the iPod, don't have an alarm clock or am/fm radio, take up a bit more space.frankthetank966 said:Wow that is insane... I am not sure if it is worththe money to buy a speaker system like this or the JBL Creature II.
Sorry; I wasn't being precise (did I mention that I was running late for work that day?). When the alarm goes off, it builds over about 10 seconds to the full "wake volume" that had been set earlier. So if you'd set it to 20, it'll go up to 20 and not to 40.battlecat said:<snip>
BTW: The sound goes from 1 to 40; at 40 a piece of pop music will sound loud, but not so loud that the neighbors would complain. (We'd need it to go to 41 for that)."
I'm kind of confused by this. Earlier you said that when the alarm went off, it went to the 'Wake Volume' that you set, but now you say 'full volume'... is this the Full Volume that the iLuv can go to?
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Awesome thanks!!!groo90266 said:Sorry if this is a duplicate post; the forum is acting weird.
Sorry; I wasn't being precise (did I mention that I was running late for work that day?). When the alarm goes off, it builds over about 10 seconds to the full "wake volume" that had been set earlier. So if you'd set it to 20, it'll go up to 20 and not to 40.
Also, thanks for the info about the battery!