Adam Kalsey

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iPod accessories

28 Dec 2005

The Klipsch iGroove speakers I got for my wife for her iPod are fantastic. The sound reproduction is incredible. I’m amazed that such a tiny device can produce such rich bass. I looked over the Bose SoundDock and a couple of the less expensive systems, and listened to each at the store and nothing came close to the Klipsch. The speakers are portable enough to move from room to room and this summer they’ll spend a lot of time in our backyard as we hang out by the pool.

I also bought a Griffin iTrip so she could listen to music in the car. The iTrip is awful. Terrible. It sucks greatly. Using the digital readout it’s easy to select a station to play it on, but the transmitter wasn’t powerful enough to get a clear signal to her car stereo. We’d get a little signal but no matter where we put it as soon as we put the iPod down or moved our hand away from the device, static took over. I managed to find a spot in the car where it seemed to work, but as soon as the car started to move, we got static. I returned the $50 iTrip and bought a cassette tape adapter instead. A bonus advantage of the tape adapter is that we don’t have to keep changing radio frequencies as we drive from town to town.

Buy the Klipsch. Avoid the iTrip. You’ll be happy.

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