An iPod Dock the Size of a Dining Table
Well, isn't this nice and practical?
One of the best ways a company can attract people to their booth at CES is by displaying ridiculous products that are never going to be mass produced near the front of the booth. The old bait and switch. TP-Link managed to get our own Ross Lincoln to approach their booth with a big, huge, scary dancing robot. Ross was disappointed to discover this robot was not going to be available to buy, and TP-Link was more interested in talking to him about the TL-WR700N mini wireless pocket router and other non-dancing products.
Behringer was doing something similar with its iNuke Boom iPod dock. The size of a couch, this iPod dock is obviously ridiculous. However, unlike TP-Link and the scores of other companies dragging us with big, bold, insanely cool gizmos only to redirect our attention to something far more pedestrian, Behringer's iNuke Boom is an actual product. Here's the specs from Behringer's website:
- Stereo 3-way system with total output of 10,000 Watts
- Twin 18-inch subwoofers for gut-wrenching, pulse-pounding bass
- Dual 12-inch neodymium woofers for articulate bass and mid-range
- Two 1.75-inch titanium-diaphragm HF drivers can break glass
- iNUKE mode power boost
- Volume control goes to all the way to "11"
- High-quality components and exceptionally rugged construction ensure long life
Of course, there's nothing mentioned regarding price, which is probably the most important detail. Still, the iNuke Boom is real, even if it is a specialty product that will probably cost you your first born.
- This "Sandbox" Runs Any Browser Without Local Installs
- Mighty Dwarf Will Make a Bluetooth Speaker Out of Anything
- DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA, Protect IP
- Rupert Murdoch Admits To Killing MySpace
- Words With Friends Actually Saved Someone's Life
- Windows Phone Beats 88% of Competitors in Speed Test
- Symantec Source Code Released Today, Says Hacker
- Apple Discloses Component Suppliers of iPad, iPhone, iPod
- Internet Addiction Could Have Biological Indicator
- Google, LG Collaborating on a Google TV Nexus Model?
- Apple Stalls Launch of iPhone 4S in Many China Stores
- Logitech Unveils Its Ultra Portable Cube Mouse
- Yet Another Rumor Surfaces About a RIM Sale
- Audi's Urban Concept Electric Car is Insanely Cool Looking
- The Pirate Bay to Stop Hosting Torrents
- Samsung's Navibot S Gives Roomba a Run for its Money
- Modular Cubelets Let You Create Your Own Robots
- Futuristic Lenses Will Make Deus Ex Vision a Reality
- ION Audio's iCade Shows Off New iPad Arcade Accessories
iNuke the iPod
specs?
Nice waste. Just another reminder that there are lots of dumb people out there; in case Apple were not sufficient.
I take offense to the iNuke thing.
been there done that.
I don't get this.
The retail price for this behemoth is said to be a staggering $30 000!
Yet, since the Iphone/Ipod is the device playing the songs, it won't even support a bunch of popular lossless codecs like Flac or ape.
I mean if you dosh out such a big sum on having a great music experience and you then get limited on the get go!
10KW of music is not a "great music experiance". It's just a power hog and loud. And cheap at the power rating so most likely it'll sound like crap no matter the signal source.
I don't get this. The retail price for this behemoth is said to be a staggering $30 000! Yet, since the Iphone/Ipod is the device playing the songs, it won't even support a bunch of popular lossless codecs like Flac or ape.I mean if you dosh out such a big sum on having a great music experience and you then get limited on the get go!
You forget that this is targeted at fans of Apple products. It doesn't have to make sense from a price/performance perspective, it just has to be related to a piece of fruit.
talk about overkill
I'd prefer two 15" subs, they hit lower frequencies. 18" subs can't go as low without breaking themselves.
The stupidity of the people touched another level, almost Apple level.
I don't get this. The retail price for this behemoth is said to be a staggering $30 000! Yet, since the Iphone/Ipod is the device playing the songs, it won't even support a bunch of popular lossless codecs like Flac or ape.I mean if you dosh out such a big sum on having a great music experience and you then get limited on the get go!
You forget that this is targeted at fans of Apple products. It doesn't have to make sense from a price/performance perspective, it just has to be related to a piece of fruit.
IGNORANTS, apple have a lossless audio encoder that you can use in itunes when you import music from a CD or simply convert a "FLAC" song to "WMA losseless" and then to "apple loseless" and it is fully compatible whith the ipod iphone and ipad products, its call "Apple loseless codec" and it uses a .m4a extension and in the songs i have tried to convert have reached a bit rate of up to 1048kbps
^"IGNORANTS"
Irony is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Yes, I'm aware that Apple has a lossless codec, however, that doesn't mean that the product is worth 30,000 dollars (not sure on the price, simply commented based on in_the_loop's comment).
They should make something like this for Android products. But only if it's laggy and has poor battery life. Otherwise I'm not interested.
Seems like a gadget people want to say "I have it". Seems quite rubbish for the price..
Wasn't this featured on Toms like a week ago or longer?
Just a small question:
How do they isolate the iPod or the iPhone from the energy of the sound?
Even if 95% of the sound is directed away from the device I doubt that iPod and iPhone were built for such vibrations. Has anybody tetsted the endurance of the devices?
As a live sound engineer I would never buy anything from Behringer. There make the worst gear in the business.
iWant!
Haha!
Nice waste. Just another reminder that there are lots of dumb people out there; in case Apple were not sufficient.
This is perfect for all of those people I see buy a 4-door car, remove the back seats, and replace them with huge woofers, and turn a rather pedestrian 4-door car into a two seater that you wouldn't want to be caught dead in... this looks like it'd fit right in!
As a live sound engineer I would never buy anything from Behringer. There make the worst gear in the business.
Oh there is certainly worse gear... But you're right about Behringer in general. I had two mixers and an equalizer blow out on me over the years. I have a pair of BL215A powered speakers that have somehow survived, but Behringer's $100 FBQ1502 is hissy beyond anything I've ever used. I bought a Mackie Pro FX16 mixer and never looked back, and a DBX EQ helps me compensate for the oddities of the BL215A's.
How come Apple didn't suit Behringer's ass off yet? Apple must have patented the concept of "ridiculous gadget which does nothing useful but still costs two arms and four legs".
Just another over site maybe.
How the hell do they claim 10 000 watts when a standard wall outlet has 1875?
This is like
41A @ 240 volts
83A @ 120 volts
91A @ 110 volts
Better break out AWG 2(most houses use 14-12 fro standard plugs(15 or 20 amp)) wire
The iPhone most likely cost more than the dock.
So its a giant stereo system that can only be used with an Apple product, and its an overpriced all-in-one that can be serviced by an end-user? Okay, it fits - after all, isn't that Apple's corporate philosophy that has made them a success and so many other companies have been criticized for not following...
i like it, i dont like it, i like it, i dont like it, i like it, i dont like it, i like it, i dont like it, i like it, i dont like it, if i go on like this ill be as useless as the iNuke
Just another over site maybe.How the hell do they claim 10 000 watts when a standard wall outlet has 1875?This is like41A @ 240 volts83A @ 120 volts91A @ 110 voltsBetter break out AWG 2(most houses use 14-12 fro standard plugs(15 or 20 amp)) wire
when you need specialty power installations, you call an electrition and get a special power plug for them, rewireing will be nessassary, but not cost nearly as much as the 30k you are spending on the speakers.
now correct me if i'm wrong, but there s no way in hell they are ever pushing 10000 watts. for most people these would be on low, and if i'm right, speakers don't always use the full watt, having them lower uses less. i'm betting the average home would use less than 2000 watts at any given time, probably 1000. im saying this as a person who has 500 watt speakers, i set them to about 10% of what they can output without annoying parents, and about 25% before they get to loud for my room at a reasonable level. only reason i ever went higher than that, was because i wanted to see how loud they could be, and at 50% when i run my guitar though them, for fun...
i can assume that the power this will draw at most it 10000 once, just to see the loudness, after that it will probably never go passed 2500 watts, and in america, i believe that the draw on one circuit is about 3000 limit. you could realisitcly draw from 2 circuts, and never need to worry about anything with this...
im coming at this from a power prospective, not a quality.