Review iPod speaker systems have come on a-ways of late, with units such as Edifier’s Luna 5 and B&W’s Zeppelin both looking and the sounding the part of serious home audio kit. With wireless music networking being the other Big Idea at the moment it was only a matter time before somebody put the two together and came up with something like Altec Lansing’s Octiv Air wireless speaker system.
The Air consists of a reasonably attractive and weighty – 4.8kg, so you won’t want to drop it on your foot or the cat – 57 x 115 x 255mm wireless speaker unit and a small – 120 x 132 x 31mm – iPod dock. To work, both units need to be plugged into mains power. Read the rest of this entry »
Review The sleepy Scottish market town of Lanark is best known for being the place where Mel Gibson William Wallace began his rising against the English is 1297 and as the home town of 1995 World Rally champion Colin McCrae. Well, Reg Hardware can now add to that list because it’s also the home of Revo Technologies, a company that make some very interesting audio kit such as the Blok iPod dock currently sat on our desk.
Pull the Blok from its box and you’d have to be blind not spot the fact that Revo has eschewed the industry standard black plastics, cloth speaker covers and faux chrome in favour of good old fashioned wood. American walnut veneer to be precise, though if you really must have one in black you can – in black oak mind, not black plastic. Read the rest of this entry »
