Any sik dins or sik imps to be found?

[bighusker]

every place on the net says they're sold out...lord only knows when they'll be back in stock. There's one on ebay but they want $40 for it + shipping which is way too much. Any retail stores that might possibly carry it (yea right) ?

[victimeiced]

hey there, i was looking around for the sik imp myself for a while, but then decided to get the sendstation pocketdock w/ line-out instead. But i just saw this, if you go to amazon.com they have 2 of them i think as of a few hours ago. And there's that one on ebay from Australia that is like 35 bucks plus 10 bucks or something to ship it to the US.

[bighusker]

Thanks. Unfortunately, the seller at amazon says "Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 weeks", so it looks like they have it on backorder like everyone else. I might have to look into this pocketdock though. How is the sound quality, and is it compatible with 4th generation ipods?

[victimeiced]

the pocketdock will have the exact same sound quality at the sik imp, they are both just 'line-level' sources. At first, i wanted the sik imp because it was a line-out and a car charger all in one. I was going to wire another cigarette lighter on the inside of my dash and plug the sik imp in there, cuz i hate wire clutter and i didn't want some big curly wire dangling around all the time. But then i realized i'm going to be bringing my ipod in the house 1-2 times a week at least to update the songs on it... so a full time charger isn't something i necessarily needed. So i decided to get the Sendstation Pocketdock. Its a about 1inch by 1inch little square adaptor that plugs into the dock connector of 4th gen ipods. It has a 'line-in' input, as well as a firewire input. Now at first i got it just for the line-in and thought what the hell would i need the firewire for... then realized i could get a Firewire Car Charger and just leave it in my glovebox, for incase i ever desperately needed to charge the ipod too on a long drive or something. So this way, i didn't have to do too much custom wiring work and stuff, and there's no cables dangling. I can just plug the charger in for a little bit if i ever need to, but it doesn't always have to be there. hope this helps.

[bighusker]

Thanks. I'll have to make sure my 1 ft. cable can reach with the added 1 inch at the bottom, but I think I'm gonna get me one of these.