iHome iH80 Speaker System for iPod (Black) by Sound Design, Inc.
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Digital camera reviews of iHome iH80 Speaker System for iPod (Black)
Digital camera Review: Better than expected
Summary: 5 Stars
Working flawless with my iPod Classic 80GB. A bit bulky for a portable one but sound quality from this cube speaker is better that what I expected. Bass and Treble controls on Remote are nice and tiny remote is cute. 200% happy for the price (Twenty bucks) paid on the deal.Digital camera Review: Cant go wrong <---i take that back!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
Bought this as gold box deal for $20.00. Awesome, works great, and love the look and sound of it. With that price you couldn't go wrong.
UPDATE-this has been tossed into the garbage stopped working after a little bit. thought it was to much of a good deal to be true. so now i would be giving it 1 star if i could edit that part of the review.
Digital camera Review: Coupla sweet hours so far
Summary: 5 Stars
Easy to operate, I unpacked this and got it up and running immediately with my little mini plugged right in. Adjusted the bass/treble/volume, and I'm happy. The iPod is charging and the music is very, very nice. This is not a high powered system, but a very good system that works perfectly thus far with range in the music, well worth the gold box price I paid. The remote option is a wonderful bonus, so I can stick it in my pocket and make adjustments from the other side of this large room. I can't address other options, yet, but it seems rather straightforward and capable. Glad I bought this and I'd recommend it highly.Digital camera Review: Decent Purchase.
Summary: 4 Stars
I was lucky enough to snag this as a gold box deal at around 30 dollars and I would probably even pay upwards of 50 dollars for it.
It has the capability of becoming much louder then one would expect from a speaker this size , about the size of a adult bowling ball. In my basement, with the speaker pumped up to practically the max I could still make out the music on the second floor of my frame house.
Granted it is primarily for docking an Ipod, you can use the wire that comes with it to hook up anything that has a headphone jack to feed its music into the speaker. If you were to do that then you lose some features of the remote mainly the ability to move around in your playlist.
Two things I didn't know before I purchased it were, there is a microphone jack in the back, so you can actually have a inexpensive but still fun portable karaoke machine. The other being you can buy a second speaker (not this same one) and attach it to this one. I spent a few minutes looking for the secondary speaker on Amazon but could not locate it, but I did find it on the ihome website.
Hope my review helped you in your purchase.
Digital camera Review: Decent sound, but power saving "features" ruin it for me
Summary: 2 Stars
I wanted to use the iH80B not only as a charging station and speaker for my iPod, but also as the primary speaker system for my computer (via the included 3.5" aux in jack). It's compact and the attractive form factor make this a natural use for it. The problem is that this device was designed with portability in mind, and as a result it contains battery saving features that cannot be disabled.
For example, even when the unit is plugged into an AC adapter it will turn itself off after a short period if it does not receive any audio input. This is problematic for me because I have it connected to my computer as a speaker system. So every time I fire up iTunes or some other audio application, I have to manually turn the thing on.
The other problem is that the 3.5" jack has a sensor in it that is not very accurate. Audio will only be enabled when it detects an incoming signal, and that signal has to be fairly strong. Almost every time I need to listen to something from my computer, I have to go into the settings and turn up the sound just to get it to realize that it needs to enable audio out.
On the back of the unit there is a switch that allows you to turn off the remote to save power. So, why didn't they just have a switch for setting the thing to AC or DC? Or, better yet, make the thing automatically turn off the the power saving features when it was plugged into the adapter? It's a terrible design flaw.
All that being said, the sound is decent and if you intend to use it only as an iPod speaker, and you need portability, you may find the iH80B entirely adequate. I own two other iHome systems and I can never say enough good things about them. It's a shame that this one does not meet my expectations.