Klipsch iGroove SXT iPod Sound System (Black) by Klipsch
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Digital camera reviews of Klipsch iGroove SXT iPod Sound System (Black)
Digital camera Review: Good product
Summary: 5 Stars
Great item for the price. Very happy with the sound and ease of use.Digital camera Review: Good sound until iPod Locks up
Summary: 1 Stars
What a waste of money this was. My iPod locks up every single time I use it in the iGroove. It may play for 15 minutes or it may play for an hour but sooner or later the iPod will freeze completely and nothing I do will have any affect. I have to wait for the iPod to charge down then after a recharge it will work flawlessly (until I put it back in iGroove).
Pass on the iGroove. I didn't expect audiophile sound for the price but I did expect the thing to work as advertised.
Digital camera Review: Great Buy!
Summary: 5 Stars
After 5 minutes of searching for IPod docks, I was sold. This not only exceeds functional expectations and destroys the usual skepticism, it looks good. I love it. The price was much less than what I'd be willing to pay for a product of this quality. The only issue I have(and it's probably easy to resolve) sometimes I have to turn the power off and back on or the IPod pauses playback to let me know it's charged. After I do that, I have no further interuptions. This Box Rocks!Digital camera Review: Great Klipsch system
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this to use in my office at work. The sound is very good, the size is perfect (fits right in, unobtrusive), and the remote is great. I don't play it very loud, but have cranked it up a few times and been pleased with the performance.Digital camera Review: Great Little Sound System
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, after reading through several of the reviews on here, I decided to head over to Best Buy to see this unit in person. At that point I was between the Altec Lansing iM310 and the Klipsch iGroove SXT. To be completely honest, the Altec didn't last for long, due to my own preference for Klipsch products and the similarity in price.
Anyway, I put my 2nd Generation iPod Touch on the display unit and was shocked when the unit DID actually take a charge. I was not terribly concerned with that capability, because when the WIFI is off, the iPod Touch can easily play on a dock uncharged for several hours. Still, it was a pleasant surprise. Because Best Buy (as usual) wanted about $170 (before tax) I made up my mind to go ahead and purchase this one from Amazon. I wasn't sure whether the Amazon version would also charge my iPod, but I deemed the price difference great enough that I didn't take much deliberation about it. I went ahead and purchased the unit with free shipping which was supposed to take between 5-7 days, and I received the shipment 3 days later! I have to give Amazon a lot of credit, dealing with them is always such a pleasure, and I almost always go out of my way to avoid Best Buy due to the awful customer service I always experience there, but that is another story.
This little unit looks awesome out of the box, very small and unassuming. That is until you plug it in. I tested the sound at about mid-range in a large, fully-carpeted room (about 15'x10') and was blown away by the sound put out by such a small speaker system. Now, don't think that this will replace a full Dolby Pro-Logic Surround system- that's not what it's for. But the sound quality is extraordinary for its size, and if you are throwing a party and want high-quality background music, or loud music while you are cleaning up, this is absolutely one you should consider. At the upper-level of the volume range, the Klipsch is completely capable of filling a large room with a wide range of music, and I would have no reservations about using it for a party.
There is also an AUX input for hooking in a separate peripheral to the back. This is actually great because if you are hung-up on the ability to charge your iPod while playing it, you can charge the iPod via a wall charger, and run an aux output from the iPod to the Klipsch. Voila, problem solved!
The controls on the speakers are very minimalistic, with just power and volume buttons on the top, but using the equalizer on my iPod, I am able to get a wide variety of sound qualities to suit my preferences (and I am actually rather picky). Per another reviewer's suggestion, I tried the Treble Booster setting, and agree that that is an optimal setting for most music. The remote also worked very well, right out of the box. I gave four stars just because this is an outdated version of this system that lacks the ability to charge the iPod, but the sound quality for such a small unit is truly top-notch.
One note about the use of this unit as an alarm clock, because that was actually something I was looking forward to- the 2nd Generation iPod Touch DOES NOT support nor have any way of utilizing a song or playlist as an alarm the way the earlier iPods did. That means there is no alarm application you can buy that will allow it. I do not know for the life of me why Apple chose to remove this capability, but I was unaware of it. Thus, if you have an iPod that can play music or a playlist as an alarm, it will work fine on this unit, but the newer ones may not. Note this is purely Apple's fault, and not Klipsch's. I am actually getting fed up with Apple's constant rearrangement of features and functions from one iPod generation to another. Next time I might just opt for a Zune instead.