iPhone Sound Dock

[The Hoff]

In the market at present for a dock/speakers combo for my iPhone. Just wondered what people already had and any recommendations.

Been into John Lewis a few times and contenders are:

Logitech Elite X-Fi @ £150
Bose Soundock @ £200
B&W Zeppelin @ £400

All sound good although the Bose is the weakest of the above. Not interested in a seperates in a system, it's more about portability and lack of cabling I'm looking for.

 

[gazbenger]

I have the Bose Soundock, its superb quality but doesnt go as loud as others can, looks good and portable.

 

[The Hoff]

Indeed the Bose sounded pretty week to be honest for the price. The Klipsch iGroove for £99 is vastly superior but unfortunately won't work with the iPhone.

 

[Christopher]

I have the iPod HiFi... awesome, but not exactly portable

 

[Millsy]

have a friend who has the zeppelin, tbh i was blown away by the sound that thing emits! if you can afford it i would get one! looks cool as f**k too!

 

[timmmah]

I tried my iPhone with the Bose sounddock in the apple store.

It works fine for iTunes, but if you get a call you need to remove it as it wont work and it does display a warning that it doesnt work when you connect it. - ignore that.

Fits nicely in the dock unless you use a case.

Sounddock sounds amazing, as the apple store let me play a bit of drum and bass on full blast so i could test how good it sounds as well as the bass.

 

[The Hoff]

timmah, any idea what version that was? I was under the impression that the Bose paused the music for you to take the call?

Most will give you "this accessory was not designed..." but as you say you can ignore that, the real problem ones require Airplane mode and interfere like fk when receiving calls etc.

I'd love the Zappelin, but not sure it's over twice as good to justify the price over the Logi/Bose.

 

[sneeks]

The Zeppelin is excellent but very expensive.

 

[The Hoff]

Indeed at £400 it's in the hifi domain, but it does sound great.

 

[Christopher]

Is the Zeppelin made by Bose?

 

[The Hoff]

Nope, made by B&W otherwise it would cost twice the price and be half as good.

 

[mr angry]

I looked at the bose sound dock but it sounded a bit weak and ended up getting the Jamo i300 which to my untrained ears is awsome for the money.

 

[Adams_16v]

Bought this for my GF a while back. Bloody good for the money, just read all of the 238 reviews!

link

 

[Adams_16v]

actually not sure if it works with the iphone, bought it for her ipod!

 

[The Hoff]

Indeed the Bose sounded pretty week to be honest for the price. The Klipsch iGroove for £99 is vastly superior but unfortunately won't work with the iPhone.

*Cough*

 

[Jay]

If you've got the cash B&W all day long!

 

[The Hoff]

Might go have another look today. Really need something but just still deciding if spunking 400 buttons on an iPod dock is too much, I could buy a decent vintage hifi for that lol.

 

[darren_rallye]

I would go about this a different way...

If your music is on your iPhone it's also going to be on your computer too.

Get yourself to RicherSounds for some entry level HiFi, and stream the music from the computer wirelessly, or use a decent off board sound card.

Look at "Squeezebox" or "Apple Airport Express" as a start.