Selecting Speakers For Your iPod

More and more people are buying a set of speakers for their iPods, some to replace their up-to-date home audio set ups in order to get rid of the cd assembling that take up so much room, some to have a movable audio source for when they are off on vacation, some just for having some iPod speakers because everyone else is buying them! One of the troubles we come across the most is people being faced up with a extended choice of selections and feeling bewildered about what to buy.

We can part down the various sets of speakers into the following categories:

Movable and powered by batteries.

Portable and powered by mains adapter.

Home Set up powered by mains adapter.

For those of you looking for a portable set that is powered by batteries there are a kind of excellent options at changing prices. Personally of the feeling that whatever amount of money you are expending it is grand that sound quality is hard good as what utilize is a light speaker set that has crackily sound! If you are looking to spend under £50 then we extremely rate both the Logic 3 i-Station 7 and the Monster iSpeaker. Both of these are fine light to carry, are of a size very conveninet for putting ina pack or suitcase and go for a good amount of time on batteries, sound from both is great for this pricepoint with great clearness.

If you are looking to spend a little more then a lot of options open up in the £50 to £150 bracket out. If light is your number one trouble then you will not go far wrong with the JBL On Tour, this is an incredibly lightweight unit that what it lacks in bass it makes up for in the sound clarity department. If you would prefer better sound quality then a step up to an Altec Lansing IM5 or Logitech MM50, Saitek A250 and for iPod Nano Owners the XtremeMac MicroBlast. All of these allow excellent sound alongside good looks and a extremely portable structure. Once your budget is going over £150 you are in to the regions of a great portable system in the Altec Lansing IM7, thumping bass, crystal clear treble and a great portable structure, definetly the daddy of movable iPod Docking Stations and Speaker units.

If you would like something that can be viewed portable but don't mind having to use a mains charger then there are a couple of good selections easy. One of our favourites is the Macally IceTune, this is indeed one of our top 5 iPod accessories altogether, when stacked up it looks like a coke can and has two separate speakers that can be removed and pointed to send sounds in several directions, the sound quality is excelletn for simply £39.99 and it is very much portable but does require mains ability. The JBL On Stage is another tremendous compact and lightweight unit that can be plugged into the mains for power and will charge your iPod while you hear to it, very high quality sound, lacks bass a littel but you are compromising bass to have such a small portable unit, clarity of sound and volume are both very glorious. Another greatest unit in this bracket is the Logic 3 iStation 8, newly released and keeping up the fantastic reputation of the iStation 7 this really is worth the money, great combinations of bass and treble and very much a portable size and weight.

For the home set up there are a kind of options and in honestness the greatest value speakers in our opinion come at this price point. For just £59.99 you can have a pair of JBL Creature II's, these are sure one of the brilliant home electronics products to ever hit the market, the bass is phenomenal and the clearness is outstanding, vocals sound special for many types of music, they also look very catchy and are certain to interest visitors who glaze their eyes upon them! Also in the JBL range are the Encounters, these expand on the Creature philosophy of an alien themed set of speakers and have even bigger bass, they are quite merely phenomenal! At this price point we also have the Harmon Kardon Soundsticks, for a extended time these have been my private favourite speakers, they are see through so you can have a look at what is going on inside and put up perhaps the lightest vocals you will hear from iPod centered speakers they are merely outstanding, perhaps not as strong bass as the Encounters but still more than enough for most pallettes. For anyone looking at a home iPod set up strongly advised a very close feel at the Harmon Kardon Soundsticks they are oustanding and will fit in to 99% of home settings in the living room, dining room, kitchen etc!

Hopefully this guide has been of some use to you picking out your speakers, first establish which of the three categories your demands for speakers come into and then you can use the above advice to direct you to some special units, we wish you the best of luck in your choice!