When does an iPod dock stop being an iPod dock ? When it weighs 20 pounds ? When it has a subwoofer the size of a child ’s head ? When it be $ 600 ? Whatever you do , do n’t ask Bose .
Bose SoundDock 10 sit a few notch above any of its stablemates , both in size and cost — this thing is as heavy as a stereo receiver , and about a base tall . ( Asked about the size of it , a Bose railroad engineer said that he wish to recall of it as moveable , not portable . Uh ! ) I ’m not really sure what the significance of the “ 10 ” moniker is , but if Apple can randomly impute nice , circular , out - of - order numbersto their product , why ca n’t Bose , hmm ?
They ’ve done something rather cool with the dock connector , which can be swapped out to accommodate dissimilar actor , or , if you ’ve got an supernumerary $ 150 laying around , a stereo Bluetooth arranger , which feels like it should ’ve been built in there in the first place , aboveboard . Bose threw in a composite video port for good measure , so you could view photos and videos on your TV .
Anyway , portability is n’t really the period here , since this affair is meant to sit on a tabular array — in all probability a well - polished one , in an undefiled , nautical - themed sitting room — and fairly much fill the role that the Wave radios used to : To be pocket-size than a right stereo , but not to sound like turd . In fact , there ’s a slew of shared DNA there , since the SoundDock 10 uses the same scrunched sound recording waveguide piping that made the Wave receiving set vocalize , well , sort of big . And for what it ’s worth , the SoundDock 10 sounds even bigger , mostly thanks to this :
This here clod of speaker accompanies two “ twiddler , ” which is Bose speak for “ tweeters that do midrange , too , we call . ” Together they cast good speech sound , which is amazingly hefty at the very down in the mouth end , and phenomenally clear in the rest of the range , most of the time . Classical medicine , Bose ’s demo music genre of choice , sound predictably great , but anything noisier , like careen music , starts to blend together , reminding you that you ’re still listening to an iPod dock . Which you are !
That ’s the obvious hangup with the SoundDock 10 : It ’s $ 600 , and it a loading dock . Granted , it ’s easily the best iPod bob I ’ve ever heard , but it ’s still placeable as such , and it ’s not that much cheaper than a real two - talker stereo organisation . But hey , it ’s also a wharf in the expert way — it ’s easy to connect things to , to move around , and it wo n’t clutter up your elbow room with wires — so if those are your top antecedence , sorrel do n’t get much better than this . The SoundDock 10 will be available from Sept 21 . [ Bose ]
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