Last week, on our homepage, we asked:
"Should an iPod dock be considered a standard component for a high-end audio system?"
The question seemed appropriate due to Krell's release of their KID iPod dock. The results were interesting, with 56% of our respondents saying No (or Double-No!) and 41% saying Yes.
The comments were nothing if not passionate (and often funny). For instance:
"That'd be like spreading caviar on a hotdog!" [Sounds good to me.]
and
"Did Krell also vote for Sanjaya Malakar as the next American Idol?" [I sure as hell didn't.]
Then, there were others, like H.Williams who declared the iPod to be nothing more than "a passing craze" and Martin who said, "The higher data rates might sound better (I use default) but I have no interest in finding out." Responses such as these surprise me.
Now, as I'm just becoming acquainted with the pleasures of the iPod and even beginning to play around with Red Wine Audio's iMod, I'm especially interested in your thoughts on this.
Maybe we asked the wrong question, however. Should it be a standard component?
Should a CD player be considered a standard component? A turntable?
All up for debate, I suppose. But does the iPod dock have its place in a hi-fi system?
Hell yeah, it seems to me.
Last week, on our homepage, we asked:
"Should an iPod dock be considered a standard component for a high-end audio system?"
The question seemed appropriate due to Krell's release of their KID iPod dock. The results were interesting, with 56% of our respondents saying No (or Double-No!) and 41% saying Yes.
The comments were nothing if not passionate (and often funny). For instance:
"That'd be like spreading caviar on a hotdog!" [Sounds good to me.]
and
"Did Krell also vote for Sanjaya Malakar as the next American Idol?" [I sure as hell didn't.]
Then, there were others, like H.Williams who declared the iPod to be nothing more than "a passing craze" and Martin who said, "The higher data rates might sound better (I use default) but I have no interest in finding out." Responses such as these surprise me.
Now, as I'm just becoming acquainted with the pleasures of the iPod and even beginning to play around with Red Wine Audio's iMod, I'm especially interested in your thoughts on this.
Maybe we asked the wrong question, however. Should it be a standard component?
Should a CD player be considered a standard component? A turntable?
All up for debate, I suppose. But does the iPod dock have its place in a hi-fi system?
Hell yeah, it seems to me.