An iPod Dock the Size of a Dining Table

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del35

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Nice waste. Just another reminder that there are lots of dumb people out there; in case Apple were not sufficient.
 

nukemaster

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I take offense to the iNuke thing.

been there done that.
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in_the_loop

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I don't get this.
The retail price for this behemoth is said to be a staggering $30 000!
Yet, since the Iphone/Ipod is the device playing the songs, it won't even support a bunch of popular lossless codecs like Flac or ape.
I mean if you dosh out such a big sum on having a great music experience and you then get limited on the get go!
 
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10KW of music is not a "great music experiance". It's just a power hog and loud. And cheap at the power rating so most likely it'll sound like crap no matter the signal source.
 

creekrob

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[citation][nom]in_the_loop[/nom]I don't get this. The retail price for this behemoth is said to be a staggering $30 000! Yet, since the Iphone/Ipod is the device playing the songs, it won't even support a bunch of popular lossless codecs like Flac or ape.I mean if you dosh out such a big sum on having a great music experience and you then get limited on the get go![/citation]

You forget that this is targeted at fans of Apple products. It doesn't have to make sense from a price/performance perspective, it just has to be related to a piece of fruit.
 

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[citation][nom]in_the_loop[/nom]I don't get this. The retail price for this behemoth is said to be a staggering $30 000! Yet, since the Iphone/Ipod is the device playing the songs, it won't even support a bunch of popular lossless codecs like Flac or ape.I mean if you dosh out such a big sum on having a great music experience and you then get limited on the get go![/citation]
[citation][nom]creekrob[/nom]You forget that this is targeted at fans of Apple products. It doesn't have to make sense from a price/performance perspective, it just has to be related to a piece of fruit.[/citation]

IGNORANTS, apple have a lossless audio encoder that you can use in itunes when you import music from a CD or simply convert a "FLAC" song to "WMA losseless" and then to "apple loseless" and it is fully compatible whith the ipod iphone and ipad products, its call "Apple loseless codec" and it uses a .m4a extension and in the songs i have tried to convert have reached a bit rate of up to 1048kbps
 

creekrob

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^"IGNORANTS"

Irony is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Yes, I'm aware that Apple has a lossless codec, however, that doesn't mean that the product is worth 30,000 dollars (not sure on the price, simply commented based on in_the_loop's comment).
 

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Just a small question:
How do they isolate the iPod or the iPhone from the energy of the sound?
Even if 95% of the sound is directed away from the device I doubt that iPod and iPhone were built for such vibrations. Has anybody tetsted the endurance of the devices?
 
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