AmpTune — Dual Dock Stereo Speakers + Charger for iPhone/iPod/iPod touch
Company: Macally
Price: $70 MSRP ($51.22 U.S. from Amazon.com—good value!)
http://www.macally.com/
Audiophiles: stop reading now. This product is not for you.
Normal music listeners: pay attention. You may overlook this unusual speaker system, which would be a mistake.
AmpTune, just released from Macally, is a small, compact, versatile, affordable, portable or powered way to hear music and view iPhone/iTouch videos with style and innovation. A handy remote control unit allows users to switch tracks and adjust volume, plus a couple of other tricks, from across the room. Audio quality is concentrated on the midrange spectrum, but by setting your player’s equalizer to Bass Booster the audio response is fine for typical listening situations.
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TuneStik with remote for iPod
Company: Digital Lifestyle Outfitters
Price: $59.99 MSRP
http://www. www.dlo.com
OK, you’ve really grown to love your iPod and you use it all the time. You exercise with it, you run with it, you read a book listening to it, you ignore your significant other listening to it… but you really can’t throw your headphones on and drive around listening to your iPod in the car because most jurisdictions have certain prohibitions about wearing headphones and not being able to listen to the world around you. You know, like the sound of the siren on the police car or the ambulance that is approaching you but you can’t hear anything because you’re too busy zoning out to the music.
Options available to you to solve the problem? Well, you could run out and buy a brand new car offering iPod compatibility, buy a brand new car stereo system with iPod compatibility and either install it yourself or pay to have a tech do it or you could just get an external FM transmitter that you plug your iPod into and then broadcast your signal to your car’s FM radio and you’re off and running. As they’ve done in the past, DLO again offers iPod users another way of listening to their music, this time with a change or two.
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