iHome iW1 AirPlay wireless audio system

Délé Adio 1 hour ago
So who is buying all this air-play speakers?
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Colin Cornaby 2 hours ago
So, odd question...

I'm looking for an Airplay speaker that would be suitable for a bathroom. I'm not going to dunk it in water, but it would obviously have to be moisture proof. Are there any Airplay speakers on the market that would be suitably resistant?
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ronster22 2 hours ago
Um buy an airport express and some good PC speakers. It cost me under a hundred to buy both. Works awesome.
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the_engineer 3 hours ago
I'll stick with my AppleTV connected to my reciever. Thanks.
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leox 3 hours ago
When i(get)Home, I don't want to open the iFridge to have a iGlass of iMilk. iNstead, I want to enter myHome, open myFridge and have a huge (just love milk) glass of myMilk. And, ofcourse, listen to myMusic, whether i bought it at AnyWebStore, iTunes, Amazon or downloaded my friend's home made mega hit. iLove music. Any music.
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JoelGriffinDodd 3 hours ago
Comparing this to Sonos isn't relevant at all. Sonos provides a completely independent wireless solution that you simply control with a phone app, it doesn't depend on an external device to stream the music to it.
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Joe Pollicino MOD 3 hours ago in reply to JoelGriffinDodd


It's relevant. It's an alternative.

Sidenote: It's also capable of supporting AirPlay.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/0...
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JoelGriffinDodd 3 hours ago in reply to Joe Pollicino
That's like comparing a seat to a Ferrari, because a Ferrari also has seats
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CDubber 3 hours ago
I'm still waiting for an AirPlay speaker set from Audioengine.  I love my A5s, but would love to have a couple of sets of A5s with AirPlay around the house.
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Matthew Nguyen 3 hours ago
i'll way for the phillips equivalent

http://www.usa.philips.com/c/a...

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Jason 3 hours ago
FYI, the latency issue is inherent to AirPlay (previously AirTunes), and affects all devices that use the service.  It happens on the iPhone when you try to beam to an Airport Express, or a PC running the Shairport emulation software.

It isn't the hardware's fault.  It's the protocol.
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Joe Pollicino MOD 3 hours ago in reply to Jason
Yup, and we made sure to make that clear by saying "AirPlay is occasionally buggy."
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pika2000 4 hours ago
This seems overly complicated to setup. Seems like the easiest and foolproof way to AirPlay is still an Airport express + your choice of speaker.
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Jason Sturek 4 hours ago
This thing has got to be the most bungled product launch in recent memory. I've wanted one of these things for well more than a year. Then, when they FINALLY release the thing recently, it was out of stock in 15 minutes and has been listed as such for the better part of a month on the iHome Audio website.

How hard was it to put the danged thing into a production a year ago if it was all designed? And if you did make some, maybe more than 300 of them next time? I put off a dock purchase for months waiting for this, and now I'm half tempted to go with competing product just for the principal of the matter.

Dear iHome Audio:
Please do not announce products more than a year before their release. It's annoying.

Sincerely,
Jason
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AndroidForever 4 hours ago in reply to Jason Sturek
You should also write to Apple as well...considering there are still NO CONSUMER TB devices on the market at all.
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Jason Sturek 3 hours ago in reply to AndroidForever
Here's one: http://store.apple.com/us/prod...

But still pretty pricey and doesn't ship for 4-6 weeks . . . so I take your point.
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Gabriel Makdah 3 hours ago in reply to Jason Sturek
Um, I am sorry for the inconvenience, but in addition to that product not being a single 1TB device (it is 2* 500GB devices) it is what some my call: A Complete Rip Off, for 400$, i could bump my PC with about 5TB.
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Jason Sturek 3 hours ago in reply to Gabriel Makdah
I agree it's over priced . . . but you're not paying just for the storage, you're paying for the data transfer speed.

Would you even want a 5TB disk drive if it had USB 1.0 speeds?  Someday, that comparison might make a lot of sense.
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Ammar Abotouk 4 hours ago
I hate Dock speakers too expensive too shallow
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Jason Williams 4 hours ago
I'm sorry... in what country is $300 a "low-ish" price of adoption?
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the_engineer 3 hours ago in reply to Jason Williams
If you've got anything that takes an optical or HDMI input for your audio $99 will buy you an appleTV and you're done. I agree that $300 is way overkill.
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Joe Pollicino MOD 4 hours ago in reply to Jason Williams
Um...  I clearly said for AirPlay.
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MATTHAIS 3 hours ago in reply to Joe Pollicino
Don't get pissy. $300 for a single speaker is anything but cheap.

AirPlay has changed my life, and I love it to death, but if I'm spending $300 on a single speaker, it'd better have the letters B&O on it.
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Joe Pollicino MOD 3 hours ago in reply to MATTHAIS
No one's getting pissy here. In terms of AirPlay, this is a low cost of adoption. How is this hard to fathom?
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Dmitri Arekhta 2 hours ago in reply to Joe Pollicino
$300 for the one spealer is not low cost solution in any terms. Even with Apple magic.
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MATTHAIS 3 hours ago in reply to MATTHAIS
....and by B&O, I meant B&W.

$99 will get you an Apple TV / Airport Express, with $200 to spend on powered speakers from M-Audio or the like. That was my preferred method for making multi-room audio more than a pipe dream.
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James Hilger 2 hours ago in reply to MATTHAIS
Until your Apple TV/Airport Express option works without needing to be plugged into a wall, it's not quite comparing apples to apples. And you can't stream iPhone/iPad -> Airport Express (you can stream iPhone/iPad -> AppleTV, but that also requires a separate TV which isn't exactly free or portable).
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Nickerbocker 43 minutes ago in reply to James Hilger
Apple TV *requires* a separate TV?  I thought it had audio digital out.
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Joe Pollicino MOD 3 hours ago in reply to MATTHAIS
Right, but that's technically a work around. Not an AirPlay-enabled speaker system.
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Durand4ll 4 hours ago in reply to Joe Pollicino
but but, bluetooth adapters! (see post below)
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Techee44 MOD 4 hours ago in reply to Jason Williams
'Merica!
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Durand4ll 4 hours ago
There's a few things that confuse me about these speaker sets.

I know they want to support airplay, and airplay in my experience is pretty awesome. However the premium charged is a bit much considering you can buy any bluetooth audio adapter, pair it to a mac, and you have the same thing. (it even runs through the airplay interface etc.

That opens me up to buying anything, shoving a cheap adapter on it and having different wireless zones syncing or playing different music depending on the setup.
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JaybirdEh 4 hours ago
The article mentions the Sonos S3 but I'd be curious to know how it sounds compared with the S3 and S5.
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Mushii 2 hours ago in reply to JaybirdEh
Well it cant sound any worse. Sonos make an awesome product, but their S3 and S5 devices sound decidedly rubbish. They have very poor bass reproduction and decidedly iffy midrange. That said Sonos beats airplay hands down.
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Richard Gilboy 4 hours ago
How loud does this sucker get?
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Prof. Peabody 4 hours ago in reply to Richard Gilboy
It goes all the way to ten, but it doesn't do eleven.
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kkerley 2 hours ago in reply to Prof. Peabody
But that's because they made 10 louder and had that be the loudest.
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Joe Pollicino MOD 4 hours ago in reply to Prof. Peabody
Actually, it goes to 15/16 depending on what you count the first dot as.
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Richard Gilboy 4 hours ago in reply to Prof. Peabody
hah
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Joe Pollicino MOD 4 hours ago in reply to Richard Gilboy
;)
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RkzPEIRISZ 4 hours ago
iDont wan't it
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Jim Han 4 hours ago in reply to RkzPEIRISZ
It was OK until I saw 802.11b/g only
If no 802.11n, at least give it Ethernet.
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kof2000 4 hours ago
How many i's?
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RkzPEIRISZ 4 hours ago in reply to kof2000
iCounted like 10
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Joe Pollicino MOD 4 hours ago in reply to RkzPEIRISZ
So many "i"s.