Comments on: JBL Launches On Stage Speaker For iPhone http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/jbl_launches_on_stage_speaker_for_iphone/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:23:20 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: KoKo http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/jbl_launches_on_stage_speaker_for_iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-10882 KoKo Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:16:02 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/07/jbl_launches_on_stage_speaker_for_iphone.html#comment-10882 <p>ven with the remote and the USB interface, this thing, like most iPod and iPhone accessories, costs about twice what it should. </p> <p>Any device with speakers, an amp and a "line in" input can get sound out of an iPhone (or iPod). Those devices include certain boom boxes, some table-top radios, all PC or "multimedia" speakers, and your home stereo. You just need a cable and possibly an adapter. A trip to Radio Shack will set you up for $12. </p> <p>True, that setup won't hold your i-whatever upright, and you can't sync directly or charge your device with that setup, but who cares? $12. </p> <p>I have traveled with a good set of PC speakers (I like Cambridge Soundworks). Their sound is a million times better than you would get out of a tiny device like that JBL thing, and they cost about $50. </p> ven with the remote and the USB interface, this thing, like most iPod and iPhone accessories, costs about twice what it should.

Any device with speakers, an amp and a “line in” input can get sound out of an iPhone (or iPod). Those devices include certain boom boxes, some table-top radios, all PC or “multimedia” speakers, and your home stereo. You just need a cable and possibly an adapter. A trip to Radio Shack will set you up for $12.

True, that setup won’t hold your i-whatever upright, and you can’t sync directly or charge your device with that setup, but who cares? $12.

I have traveled with a good set of PC speakers (I like Cambridge Soundworks). Their sound is a million times better than you would get out of a tiny device like that JBL thing, and they cost about $50.

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