What's your pick for best i-pod Classic active speakers? - Page 2

The Kanto speakers are very well built and sound great. The have a great warranty. I have personally heard these and think they peform very well for their price. Ease of use!!

I owned the KRK Rokit RP 8 G2, those monitors sound great but the Kanto's arguable have a comparible sound signature and have the features your looking for.

congrats, btw ive noticed it sounds better if you drive the amp harder, ie dont use the sensitive input (source 1)

I bought a B&W Zeppelin for my Ipod. That was great !!!

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Originally Posted by RayChristenPaul 

 

Thanks...I didn't realize about the sensitive input 1. Well input is for my i-mac and input 2 for my i pod (direct line out by passing the ipod amp) and it really does sound so much better like that. Why is source 1 more sensitive? Is it made that way? Used speakers don't come with manual...LOL

 

Guess what ..it got nothin' to do with audio but I think the bright blue standby led light is way too bright,...like it can lit the whole bedroom when all lights are out....seriously. But then again...I can always cover it with my coffee mug.

 

Well, I hope it's it a good buy....for now. I've been moving it around and I found out that a slight inward direction and about 6 inches above the desk is the ultimate listening position, tweaking here n there. The speakers wires are rather thin though.

 

http://www.audica.co.uk/download%20mps1.html  manuals and stuff

oh i agree about the blue led, whats more annoying is that its even brighter than the white one!  still 2 suggestions a little bit of blue tack or a black felt tip pen.  also you know the speakers have little stands to angle them up?

oh the "dock" they do is nothing more than a stand. 

when you say you have an ipod "classic" do you mean a classic ie 6G ipod or do you actually mean a 5.5G ipod?

if its the 5.5 then they hav wolfson DAC's in them in which case yes get a dock, however get a cheapish one that uses the analouge out. http://www.richersounds.com/product/ipods-docks-accessories/cambridge-audio/id10/camb-id10-ipod-dock something like that would do fine and so would probably a million other things.  dont get an expensive digital line out one all it would serve to do is bypass the good wolfson DAC.

if its a 6 then id really not worry about it, its line out isnt meant to be really any better than its hp out

there wernt any fakes, they discontinued it and dumped their stock of them and lots found there way to non Audica authorised dealers.

as for adding a sub, erm how were you proposing to do that?  it has no sub out.

Checkout Elac AM150

qoute from 6moons review:

"Conclusion: How’s it all add up? A happy encounter with a lot of value for the money. Developing a speaker with such universality of application and such a friendly budget makes it impossible to be all things to all people. One has to define a niche, focus down on specific talents and fix up a particular profile. That’s been successful. Today’s tester has clear character. For the money it’s prematurely mature – neutral and sufficiently loud and bass stable without cheap tricks. I put Elac’s AM150 through its paces over two months and enjoyed my time. Obviously you can get more if you spend more. What distinguished this box from my bigger rig were concept-typical subtractions in the low bass, lesser scale and precision of the soundstage and stepped back microdynamics. Bigger budgets will thus track the finest breathers on Soap & Skin better. Ditto for the dying embers of electronic decays and damped piano strings. Costlier kit won’t strut wobbly switches and instead seduce us with classier cosmetics. But - those of leaner wallets who want a good near-field monitor for Jazz, Pop or Rock mastering or an uncomplicated unusually mature-for-the-money living room speaker that merely requires a source ought to be more than satisfied."

source: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/elac3/1.html